PublicAffairs
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
$40.00 Add to cartThe internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.
In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to- Author: Levine, Yasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398025
- Language: English
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The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
$21.99 Add to cartAt the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish ‘migr’ Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success… [more below]
- Author: Partnoy, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488120
- Language: English
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The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
$21.99 Add to cartNamed one of Book Riot’s BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022
The “devastatingly affecting and moving” true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to sa- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541751183
- Language: English
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Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
$17.99 Read moreA New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros.,… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541762274
- Language: English
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
$19.99 Add to cartPicking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug tr… [more below]
- Author: Wainwright, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1610397703
- Language: English
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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War, 1916-1917
$18.99 Read moreThis revealing historical examination looks at the pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War, when all sides–Germany, Britain, and America–believed the war could have been concluded an
- Author: Zelikow, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541750969
- Language: English
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can’t… [more below]
- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774728
- Language: English
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Fear No Evil
$19.95 Add to cartTemperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us–which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years’ imprisonment in the Orwel… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 27 1998
- ISBN10: 1891620029
- Language: English
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The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
$16.99 Add to cartJack O’Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O’Brien’s other winn… [more below]
- Author: Swidey, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1586486667
- Language: English
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
$21.99 Add to cartThe preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best–and how we can b
- Author: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797752
- Language: English
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Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the Fbi, and a Devil’s Deal
$21.99 Add to cartWhen the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major mot… [more below]
- Author: Lehr, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391098
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$32.00 Read moreThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1610397215
- Language: English
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Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “must-read” guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson’s disease-one of the great health challenges of our time.
B… [more below]- Author: Dorsey, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 154172450X
- Language: English
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
$19.99 Add to cartA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological sys… [more below]
- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541797922
- Language: English
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
$16.00 Add to cartWho is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly–overnight and without warning–was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How… [more below]
- Author: Putin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1586480189
- Language: English
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Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
$17.99 Add to cartA call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control o- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 154177373X
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
$19.99 Read moreThe shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.
Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected,… [more below]- Author: Menn, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1541762363
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
$24.99 Add to cartJapan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the “lost decade” of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepare… [more below]
- Series: Century Foundation Books (PublicAffairs)
- Author: Pyle, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 1586485679
- Language: English
