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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time»rank: 12by: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
: :The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life lndiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibans backyard Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistans treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a ... |
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The Post-American World»rank: 65by: Fareed Zakaria
: :0ne of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the 'rise of the rest' is the great story of our time.'This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.' So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world ... |
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century»rank: 69by: Thomas L. Friedman
: :Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World ls Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the 0live Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The ... |
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals»rank: 174by: Jane Mayer
: :A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the 'War on Terror'ln the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the ... |
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The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism»rank: 231by: Ron Suskind
: :From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today's ... |
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)»rank: 80by: Elie Wiesel
: :ln Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in ... |
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)»rank: 84by: Howard Zinn
: :Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American lndians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of ... |
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism»rank: 139by: Naomi Klein
: :Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. lt's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area ... |
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution»rank: 400by: T. J. English
: : ln modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. ln Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana ... |
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Generation Kill»rank: 251by: Evan Wright
: :Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, lnternet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games and The Real World, a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts ... |
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Brackets are included for visor or windshield mounting, as are a spare fuse and a coiled six-foot power cord.
