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Jared Diamond (Author)
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2011-01-04
Penguin Books
Jared Diamond's <I>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed</I> is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning <I>Guns, Germs, and Ste
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author)
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2010-11-16
Scribner Book Company
<strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010</strong>: "In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world,
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Fareed Zakaria (Author)
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2008-04-01
<strong>Book Description</strong><br /> "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria'
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Jackson J. Spielvogel (Author)
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2010-01-01
Wadsworth Publishing Company
This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack S
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Lawrence Wright (Author)
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2006-08-08
Random House Inc
<p>A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence f
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James C. Cobb (Author)
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2008-05-01
<p>What Georgia Historical Quarterly called, "One of the most refreshing works on the state to appear in years," has now been updated to reflect the last decade
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Jackson J. Spielvogel (Author)
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2010-01-01
Wadsworth Publishing Company
This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack S
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Jackson J. Spielvogel (Author)
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2010-01-01
Wadsworth Publishing Company
This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack S
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John Buntin (Author)
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2009-08-25
Other cities have histories.<i> Los Angeles has legends. </i><br><br>Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of
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Jane Mayer (Author)
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2008-07-15
<b>A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the <br> "War on Terror"<br></b><br>In the days immediately following September 11th, the
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Jane Mayer (Author)
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2009-05-05
<b>One of <i>The New York Times</i> 10 Best Books of the Year</b><br><b> </b><br><b>National Bestseller</b><br><b>With a New Afterword</b><br><br><b>National Bo
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Charles Duelfer (Author)
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2009-02-03
<DIV>Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War
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Gerald L. Posner (Author)
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2004-08-01
Ballantine Books
Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders during the time p
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Tom Zoellner (Author)
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2009-03-05
Viking Books
<B>The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield</B><BR><BR>Uranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the only natu
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Ernest R. May (Author)
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2007-02-27
Bedford/st Martins
<div><div>The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left Americans wondering how such a breach of security could have occurred. Relatives and friends of the v
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Jim Sheeler (Author)
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2008-05-01
<B>Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler’s unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; <I>Final Salute</I> Is a stunning tribute
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Paul Zarembka (Editor)
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2008-08-05
<DIV><p>“<i>Hidden History</i> is a benchmark in 9/11 research; a serious reference volume that does not peddle vacuous theory, but instead offers up facts to b
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Brian Fagan (Author)
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2010-03-02
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
<DIV>Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and
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Der Spiegel Magazine/ De Angelis, Paul (Author)
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2002-09-01
St Martins Pr
<div>Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by <i>Der Spiegel</i>, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office i
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Mark Shaw (Author)
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2009-11-10
Palgrave MacMillan
Spiritual writer Thomas Merton is the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. Despite appearances to the contrary, in 1966 he was a
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Catherine E. Rymph (Author)
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2006-01-09
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their
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James Martin (Author)
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2006-09-30
Putnam Pub Group
James Martin tells us that we are living in a turning point in human history. "We are traveling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes- extremes of wealth a
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Ehsan M. Entezar (Author)
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2010-06-08
Xlibris Corporation
Afghanistan 101 is an introduction to Afghan culture. More specifically, this dimensional analysis discusses Power Distance (PD), Uncertainty Avoidance (UA), In
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Barton Gellman (Author)
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2008-09-16
<B>Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the A
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