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Government's End by Jon Rauch 9781891620492
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title ... -
Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.- Arab Relations: 1820-2001 by Ussama Makdisi 9781586489618
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $19.96The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nineteenth century as a favourable exchange of cultural... -
The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization by Michael O'Sullivan
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $27.05The world is at a turning point. While globalization benefited many, it produced extremes with drastic wealth inequality, indebtedness, and political volatility among the most important. As the... -
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town by Cynthia Anderson
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.10Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns in America. Some 6000 Somali... -
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II by Meredith Hindley
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. Nazi agents and collaborators soon overran the... -
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely... -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and... -
In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam by Daniel H. Weiss
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O'Donnell, a promising young poet who became a soldier and helicopter pilot in Vietnam. O'Donnell wrote... -
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson 9781541758728
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.11Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first... -
Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In by Christen Brandt 9781541756793
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do you start? How can you ensure that your good intentions create a positive impact? How do you focus your scattered efforts? And how do you... -
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.97A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age... -
Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles by Joseph O Chapa
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42An author with unique credentials of moral philosopher, Predator pilot, and Air Force officer probes the burning issue of remote warfare: is it the right thing to do and, if so, why? In the 21st... -
Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump by Mark Lasswell
Booksplease Price: $26.86Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties are gaining traction in Europe, Vladimir Putin tightens his... -
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson 9781586489946
Booksplease Price: $20.06When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that... -
On That Day by William M Arkin 9781541701069
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39Anyone who experienced the attacks on September 11 cannot forget the imagery: the smoking, falling towers, the Pentagon smoldering, the Shanksville crash site, the first responders.But there is an... -
The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America by Lawrence Epstein 9781586481629
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.96Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength... -
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery 9781541706231
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58"Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living." (Bill Gates)This bestselling book tells the inspiring life story of Chuck Feeney, known as the "James Bond... -
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky 9781586488970
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.27In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes,that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that governments need to step in and use fiscal... -
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.20Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power... -
Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government by Christine Harper
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. That extraordinary... -
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free... -
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 9781541788510
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.80Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely... -
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 by Neill Lochery 9781541702301
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to... -
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East by Neil MacFarquhar 9781586488116
Booksplease Price: $19.96Since his boyhood in Qadhafi 's Libya, and later as a reporter for more than thirteen years in cities stretching from Tehran to Marrakesh, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that... -
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It by Jon Entine 9781586480264
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.34In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are... -
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn 9781541706118
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.55The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, "a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the... -
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus' ground-breaking sequel to ... -
Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amos 9781586489502
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile- the largest exile population in postwar history. Husbands are separated from wives, children... -
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70In 2013, President Obama began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But only a year into the withdrawal, Obama began allowing the U.S. military to resume combat operations, relying almost entirely... -
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once... -
How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives by David Priess
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55To limit executive power, the Founding Fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Americans also discovered more dramatic... -
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War by Jeffrey Stern
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who had ambitions of his own: to get rich off the sudden... -
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract between America and its children. Tens of millions of students lost what little support they had from the government-not just school but food,... -
The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin 9781541763029
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of... -
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose by Kenneth B. Pyle 9781586485672
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.96Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan... -
Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? by Harry Lewis 9781586485016
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06America's great research universities are the envy of the world,and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in... -
The Great Railroad Revolution by Christian Wolmar 9781610393478
Booksplease Price: $22.32America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed... -
Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya by Anne Nivat 9781586480448
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.29Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brutal campaign against Chechnya. And though the... -
The Avoidable War?: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the Us and China by Kevin Rudd
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $23.49The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological... -
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939 by Charles Morris
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred...