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Beautiful Souls
Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a...
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The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade

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The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior...
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Rights Gone Wrong
How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt...
  
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The Unraveling
Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

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How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a...
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Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

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Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the...
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That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

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America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be...
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Aerotropolis
The Way We’ll Live Next

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we...
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Opportunism
How to Change the World--One Idea at a Time

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In this bold and forward-looking book, an Israeli civic leader shows how reorienting our society to make the most of “opportunity” could restore the global...
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Examined Lives
From Socrates to Nietzsche

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the...
  
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Amexica
War Along the Borderline

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Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—“a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United...
  

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

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Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant,...
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Conversations with Myself

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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record...
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Coal River

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One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for...
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On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

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Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know the “pals” of presidential aspirants, dark secrets about public officials, and hidden causes of the current...
  
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Interesting Times
Writings from a Turbulent Decade

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Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of...
  
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Seven Pleasures
Essays on Ordinary Happiness

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What does it mean to be happy? Americans have had an obsession with “the pursuit of happiness” ever since the Founding Fathers enshrined it—along with life and...
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Uncommon Carriers

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What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people...
  
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Critical Writings
New Edition

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The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against...