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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
$32.00 Add to cartFour Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant.
The search for justice for this one man’s death–his body found in broad daylight,- Author: Hemming, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703189
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
$17.99 Add to cartHow money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty — and then took it apart
The Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they w… [more below]- Author: Strauss, Ethan Sherwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1541736222
- Language: English
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When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
$36.00 Add to cartThe inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street’s biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players — Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman — and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle
With their b- Author: Wapner, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398270
- Language: English
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and ever- Author: Morozov, Evgeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393708
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393570
- Language: English
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What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
$16.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the Netflix film ‘Worth, ‘ starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to th… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1586484516
- Language: English
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
$17.99 Add to cartA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of moder- Author: McGreal, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541742753
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?
Western exceptionalism–the idea that E- Author: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774396
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
$18.99 Add to cartBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have inte… [more below]
- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393198
- Language: English
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yu- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 16 2003
- ISBN10: 1586481983
- Language: English
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All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
$21.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a real House of Cards(Lev Lurie).
All th- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1568588178
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
$39.00 Add to cartK. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology — the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. … [more below]
- Author: Drexler, K. Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1610391136
- Language: English
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The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War
$30.00 Read moreA thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong.
In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. H- Author: Stern, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 154170245X
- Language: English
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
$17.99 Read moreThe historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Baro- Author: Davenport, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774167
- Language: English
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
$18.99 Add to cartGarry Kasparov’s 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capabl… [more below]
- Author: Kasparov, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773640
- Language: English
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Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
$30.00 Add to cartSecret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramati- Author: Houghton, Vince
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774574
- Language: English
