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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

by Mark Bowden

Published: 2015-07-14

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tour de force of investigative journalism-Killing Pablo is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death...

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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier

by Matthew Brzezinski

Published: 2002-07-09

Paperback: 320 pages

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After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pu...

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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism (Vol 1)

by Simon Reeve

Published: 1999-10-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Details the manhunt for Ramzi Yousef, the terrorist behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the discovery that he was backed by Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, an increasingly influential sponser of international terrorism.

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Flatbellies: It's Not About Golf, It's About Life

by A.B. Hollingsworth, Alan B. Hollingsworth

Published: 2001-03

Hardcover: 344 pages

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"Reads like a combination of American Graffiti and Hoosiers put on pages with humor and wit. It's a wonderful story.... I loved it."?Associated Press It's not about golf. It's about life. Set in a small Oklahoma town in the mid-1960s?a simple place in a confusing time?Flatbellies is partly...

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Doomsday Scenario - How America Ends: The Official Doomsday Scenario Written By the United States Government During the Cold War

by Douglas Keeney

Published: 2002-03-17

Hardcover: 128 pages

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Subtitled: . This chilling 1958 Cold War defense document lays the foundation for how Bush, Cheney and Congress reacted to the September 11th attack on America. Under government wraps for forty years, "The Emergency Plans Book" was de-classified in 1998 and moved to the public viewing area...

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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

by Eliot A. Cohen

Published: 2003-09-09

Paperback: 320 pages

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The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examinatio...

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Murder at Melrose Court: A Country House Christmas Murder (Heathcliff Lennox)

by Karen Menuhin

Published: 2018-12-05

Paperback: 282 pages

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Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction.What readers are saying... Couldn't put it down'. Humorous - did I say humorous?' 'And there's even a dog!' 'Cozy murder mystery at its best!' 'Love the setting, old country house, eccentric guests, snow...

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Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse

by James R. Cook

Published: 2000-03-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse by James R. Cook.

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The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

by Philip K. Howard

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common...

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published: 2005-08-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragil...