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The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
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by Judy Pasternak
Published Jul 2011
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by Margaret MacMillan
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsMargaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and great storyteller (The New York Review of Books), explores here the many ways in which history its values and dangers affects us all, including how it is used and abused.
by Walter R. Mead
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsAn illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world.
by Tim Weiner
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsFor the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world.
by Robert Kagan
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the immensely influential and best-selling Of Paradise and Powera major reevaluation of Americas place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century.
by Thomas Friedman
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsA timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
by Niall Ferguson
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsNiall Ferguson brings his renowned historical and economic depth of field to bear on a bold and sweeping reckoning with America's imperial status and its consequences.
by Jared Diamond
Published Apr 1999
Read Reviews'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.'
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