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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

by Peter Kornbluh

Published: 2013-09-11

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Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first made publicly available in the o...

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

by David Fromkin

Published: 2009-07-21

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Published with a new afterword from the author?the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts?including the hostilities between Arabs and Is...

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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

by Ted Steinberg

Published: 2008-03-25

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In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of the narrative. Now in a new edition, Down to Earth reenvisions the story of America...

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The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America

by Douglas Schoen, Michael Rowan

Published: 2009-01-06

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A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezu...

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by Alexandra Duncan

Published: 2015-09-01

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Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and tho...

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights

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Published: 2016-01-22

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK Notorious RBG was co-authored by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. Irin is a journalist who interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsberg for MSNBC and Shana is the law stu...

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Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-Of-Age in America

by Gustavo Perez Firmat

Published: 2006-01-01

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Poet, fiction, writer, and scholar Gustavo Perez Firmat writes a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American's lifelong search for identity and a sense of roots in his adopted land.

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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Published: 2010-06-02

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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial ...

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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

by Harm de Blij

Published: 2007-02-12

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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and ...

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Catching the Wind

by Melanie Dobson

Published: 2017-05-09

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What happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...