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Download this eBook The Soft Cage
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The Soft Cage


Christian Parenti


On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge...

Publication date: 2007-10-15
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False Prophets


James Hoopes


According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society-freedom, equality, individualism. False Prophets critically examines the pioneering theories...

Publication date: 2007-10-11
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Download this eBook The Idea That Is America
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The Idea That Is America


Anne-Marie Slaughter


The Washington Post Book World namedThe Idea That This is America one of the best books of 2007 When Army Captain Ian Fishback decided to blow the whistle on prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, he posed the central question facing America in the new century: "Will...

Publication date: 2007-08-02
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Dominion of Memories


Susan Dunn


For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the...

Publication date: 2007-07-30
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Alexander's Tomb


Nicholas J Saunders


Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. Alexander's Tomb is the epic tale of the ongoing quest to unlock one of the world's great mysteries.

Publication date: 2007-07-30
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Download this eBook The Complete Art Of War
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The Complete Art Of War


Ralph D. Sawyer , Pin Sun , Sun Tzu


Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study. The Military Methods ofSun Pin, the...

Publication date: 2007-03-16
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Thy Kingdom Come


Randall Balmer


For much of American history, evangelicalism was aligned with progressive political causes. Nineteenth-century evangelicals fought for the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, and public education. But contemporary conservative activists have defaulted on this...

Publication date: 2007-03-09
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Hard Power


Kurt Campbell , Michael O'hanlon


Our ideas about national security have changed radically over the last five years. It has become a political tool, a "wedge issue," a symbol of pride and fear. It is also the one issue above all others that can make or break an election. And this is why the Democratic...

Publication date: 2007-03-09
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Inside the Jihad


Omar Nasiri


From Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, this is a unique and chilling insider's story of the rise of Al Qaeda and the intelligence services that struggle to contain it. Between 1994 and...

Publication date: 2007-03-09
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Washington's God


Michael Novak , Jana Novak


Washington has long been viewed as the patron saint of secular government, but in Washington's God , Michael Novak and his daughter, Jana, reveal that it was Washington's strong faith in divine Providence that gave meaning and force to his monumental life. Narrowly...

Publication date: 2007-02-13
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The Tao of Deception


Ralph D. Sawyer


The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin fasade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those...

Publication date: 2007-02-13
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Working Toward Whiteness


David R. Roediger


How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of...

Publication date: 2006-08-08
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The Battle of Blair Mountain


Robert Shogan


The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless...

Publication date: 2006-07-26
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Download this eBook The Essential Art of War
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The Essential Art of War


Ralph D. Sawyer


Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever...

Publication date: 2005-10-04
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The Transparent Society


David Brin


In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and “smart” toll...

Publication date: 1999-05-07
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Download this eBook The Art of War (Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer)
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The Art of War (Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer)


Ralph D. Sawyer , Sun Tzu


The definitive translation of Sun-tzu's timeless classic of military strategy, Art of WarSun-tzu's Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written. This treatise has been credited with influencing some of the most legendary military...

Publication date: 1994-02-11
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