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A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations and a maniacally unfounded fear for the safety of children.

In the 1970s and 80s, the deal-making culture of American business-in which thousands of companies big and small are acquired, merged, and sold again as casually as pieces moved on a Monopoly game board-was created by these fascinating, complex, and flawed individuals, who spawned the Hobbesian world we live in today.

A dazzling, intimate portrait of India's natural world at the brink of a precipice-imperiled by a surging population and its industry run amok

A highly acclaimed expert separates myth from reality in the frenzied, incredibly expensive college game, and provides a pragmatic cost-effective guide to making rational choices that bring long-term payoff.

"An invaluable and inspiring read"* offering a new perspective to people entering their 50s, 60s, and 70s asking the question: What's next? (*Wall Street Journal)

The author saw more than a catastrophic mortgage problem in the crash of 2008. In this book, he shows that what happened in 2008 was the result of the total corruption of free-market capitalism, which left a hollow shell that one day would, and did, implode.

In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II

Based on twenty years of research, including data from more than 20,000 managers in many global industries, Winning the Long Game bridges the very big, but under-connected fields of strategy and leadership, showing how people at all levels how to deal with their biggest challenge-being strategic-by looking at the world outside-in and future-back.

On the 25th anniversary of Booknotes/Q&A, the shows' renowned host and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb collects some of the best stories, interviews, and conversations from C-SPAN's beloved Sunday evening program.

"The authors' deep compassion for the poor, gimlet-eyed view of India's checkered economic past and genuine concern for its future shine through on every page. For the reader interested in the big policy questions facing the world's largest democracy-and, by extension, much of the rest of the developing world-"Why Growth Matters" is as good a place to start as any." -The Wall Street Journal

"This book is an example of the best kind of war journalism: It is bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical. It sends out a powerful message to people contemplating the escalation of the war against terrorism." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Renowned financier and philanthropist George Soros reveals the roots of Europe's current financial crisis and comprehensively assesses the consequences of that crisis for the global economy and on the political ideals embodied by the European Union.

"A sweeping survey that proves to be...a counterweight to global gloom and doom. Mr. Mahbubani is a big-picture writer and thinker, a Thomas Friedman with a strong Asian perspective." -The Wall Street Journal

A fresh, enlightening reinterpretation of how European civilization as we know it arose in the wake of utter chaos in Rome, France and Germany- not in the 11th or 12th century, as is commonly thought, but during the 10th.

By the author of West of Kabul, East of New York and Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation

A scientific history with many plot twists, this is the story of one man's career combating mankind's most persistent disease, and the ground-breaking effects his work had on people's lives across the United States and in the rest of the world.

A spirited guide to the classics of feminism, examining how well the canon holds up to the realities of marriage and motherhood

"[A]n illuminating narrative that shows, among much else, what happened when Yankee ingenuity met the Industrial Revolution.... Post-Civil War industrialization had an important and largely overlooked predecessor in the first decades of the 19th century. It is a story worth telling, and Mr. Morris tells it well." -The Wall Street Journal

Through eye-opening analysis of the role of debt in American history, a renowned finance expert and three-term Democratic mayor of Houston illuminates how debt now threatens our future, and suggests sensible bipartisan approaches to resolving the crisis.

The story of one middle-class family, the Rezas, shopkeepers in Lahore's ancient Anarkali Bazaar, caught in the great struggles that have rippled through Pakistan " compellingly narrated by a young Pakistani-American scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region at first hand.

A New York Times bestselling author distills the strategies and the wisdom of three pillars of the financial world who foresaw the global economic crisis

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the Twin Towers, this book discusses how successive US administrations struggled to understand the changing world. It provides an account of one of the most overlooked and misunderstood eras in US history: the 12 years after the Cold War was definitively won.

The first full history of the pioneering Special Forces units of World War II -- dropped behind German lines into France to assist with the D-Day landings -- told by a former U.S. Special Forces colonel with unique access to surviving veterans

"The most original and illuminating addiction memoir since Thomas De Quincey's seminal Confessions of an Opium Eater. . . An electrifying debut." -The Fix

The bestselling author--son of a lead prosecutor at Nuremberg--considers the issues surrounding the pending trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and asks: How does society deal lawfully with the lawless?

"The professionalism, quiet dignity, and dedication to our country that Commander Lippold and his sailors exhibited is an inspiration to us all and a reminder of the very best America has to offer." - Ali Soufan, author of The Black Banners

A biography of Elizabeth McCormack, regarded by many as the very soul of philanthropy whose unstinting practical advice and compassion have helped to inform the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy causes around the world.

The father of nanotechnology shows that we're closer to a nano-scale engineering revolution than ever before, and how it will change the world as we know it.