Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Kodansha globe)List price: $15.00 2 used & collectible available from $85.20. The son of a black African and a white American, the author traces the history of his parents' migrations, his own odyssey from Africa to America and back, and his journey of self-discovery, spanning racial divides, continents, and generations. Reprint.... |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time List price: $25.95 62 new, used & collectible available from $10.18. The inspiring account of one man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani v... |
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World List price: $29.95 49 new & used available from $16.59. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionar... |
The Post-American World List price: $39.95 51 new & used available from $21.96. A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global AgeFor Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and ... |
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism List price: $16.00 99 new & used available from $8.90. In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gr... |
The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the WorldList price: $14.95 1 used available from $77.77. GLENN BECK, award winning radio and TV host has been talking about...The 5000 Year Leap!- How America became an economic powerhouse offering wealth to the average citizen!- How the Federal Government was built to protect and safeguard citizen s rights!- 28 Principles indisputably creating freedom & prosperity unlike any other!The 5,000 Year Leap comes Highly Recommended book by radio and televisio... |
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century List price: $16.00 227 new, used & collectible available from $6.87. A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world... |
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change List price: $16.95 1 new available from $11.53. “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define ... |
A Short History of Nearly EverythingList price: $34.99 2 new available from $34.99. One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his grea... |
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story List price: $14.95 59 new & used available from $8.69. the New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded poland, stuka bombers devastated warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after... |
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