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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hay...

By: F. A. Hayek

University Of Chicago Press

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)

By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

Vintage

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.

They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel...

Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation

By: John Hagee

Howard Books

This new book by New York Times best-selling author and pastor, John Hagee, says the United States is heading into a “Perfect Storm.” Titanic. John F. Kennedy’s assassination. 9/11. John Hagee maintains that these American tragedies all have one element in common: they were unthinkable. And in the opening pages of his newest book, Can America Survive? Hagee uses these tragedies to prove two points: that the unthinkable can happen and, given the right conditions, the unthinkable can quickly become the inevitable.

In Can America Survive? Hagee asserts that the seeds for tragedy are once again being sown, evidenced by the disturbing economic, geopolitical, and religious trends that now threaten to dismantl...

The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or ...

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

By: Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Regnery Press

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Greg Mortenson

Viking Adult

115099 Features: Follow Greg Mortenson as provides aid in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake Read about the Central Asia Institute's (CAI) efforts in Afghanistan which place Mortenson in the way of harm from Afghan warlords, militia commanders, tribal leaders, and Islamic clerics Learn how Mortenson survived a an 8-day armed abduction by the Taliban to all as he continues to further the progress of his 2-decade humanitarian effort Get a first-person account of Mortenson's work with his manager, Sarfraz Khan as they staked out the first schools in Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan Specifications: Pages: 448 Edition: first Jacket: hard cover ISBN-10: 0670021156 Publisher: Viking Adult

Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements

By: Bill Moyer, JoAnn MacAllister, Mary Lou Finley Steven Soifer

New Society Publishers

This activist tool offers a theoretial model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health and globalization movements.

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Vic...

By: Ben Macintyre

Crown

In 1943, British intelligence conceived a spectacular con trick to draw German attention away from the Allies' obvious next objective, Sicily. The bait was a briefcase full of carefully forged documents attached to the wrist of Major William Martin, Royal Marines-a fictitious identity given to a body floated ashore in neutral Spain. Making the deception plausible was the task given to two highly unconventional officers: Lt. Comdr. Ewen Montagu and Squadron Leader Charles Cholmondeley. Macintyre recounts their adventures and misadventures with panache. The body was that of a derelict. Its costuming included the underwear of a deceased Oxford don. An attractive secretary provided the photo of an imaginary fiance. The carefully constructed documents setting up the bogus operation against G...

Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion

By: David Barton

Wallbuilder Press

An essential resource for anyone interested in our nation's religious heritage and the Founders' intended role for the American judicial system. Original Intent combines hundreds of quotes from primary sources with the author's exposition on hot topics such as revisionism, judicial activism, and separation of church and state. A substantial appendix encompasses full texts of the founding documents, biographical sketches of numerous Founders, and extensive reference notes.

Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant

By: David Barton

WallBuilder Press

This new book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover the Founding Fathers own words and intents in this book! With all these resources, you will be able to clearly understand the original intent of the Founding Fathers and be able to share those beliefs with others!

The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American E...

By: Aaron Klein, Brenda J. Elliott

WND Books

BRAND NEW 2010 HARDBACK EDITION. SOME SHELFWEAR MARKS. OVERSTOCK MARK..

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Harper

In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country's leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.

Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it's an intimate portrait of some of the most powerful and fascinating figures in American life—the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

By: Richard Mcgregor

Harper

An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the united states

China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party.

As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every aspect of go...

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Vintage

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

By: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer

Threshold Editions

Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come.

America is being tested in a way that she has never been tested before. Since taking the oath of office in January 2009, President Barack Obama has cheered our enemies and demoralized our allies. He is hard at work "remaking" America by destroying the free-market system and nationalizing major segments of our economy, demonizing dissent and restricting freedom of speech, turning against our longtime friends, and above all, subjecting us to the determinations of foreign authorities.

In ...

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

By: Eric Schlosser

Harper Perennial

On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating expos with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the...

Rules for Radicals

By: Saul Alinsky

Vintage

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The Promise: President Obama, Year One

By: Jonathan Alter

Simon & Schuster

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery.

In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the country’s most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama’s difficult debut.

What happened in 2009 inside the Oval Office? What worked and what failed? What is the p...

The 5000 Year Leap (Original Authorized Edition)

By: W. Cleon Skousen

National Center for Constitutional Studies

GLENN BECK, award winning radio and TV host has been talking about "The 5000 Year Leap!" Have you ever read a book which literally changed the course of your thinking and your life? The founder's success formula, as presented in 5000 Year Leap would solve nearly every problem we have in American today if followed. This book will give you a feeling of confidence in today's confused world. Once an individual has a working knowledge of the only correct and proven principles for freedom, prosperity, and peace, then other history can be taught from a whole different perspective. American History becomes a study of how the United States throughout its 200 plus years has either supported the principles of liberty and prospered, or violated these principles and suffered. Can any other kn...

The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

By: Andrew C McCarthy

Encounter Books

Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef

SaltRiver

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence, and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader. In Son of Hamas, Mosab Yousef--now called "Joseph"--reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and homeland, the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public, and his belief...

The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition

By: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Jossey-Bass

Guest Reviewer: Marshall Goldsmith
Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized by almost every major business publication as one of America's leading executive educators and coaches. He is the author or co-editor of 22 books, including What Got You Here Won't Get You There--a New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal #1 business book.

I consider Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner to be the best research-based book ever written in the field of leadership.

What I love about this book is that it is actually written for its readers!

Let's face it--very fe...

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

By: Glenn Beck

Threshold Editions

In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential, and they find commonsense solutions to the nation s problems. One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America s future and freedom. Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. Glenn Beck revisits Paine s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government s easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods, and take back our great country. Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio and Fox News television sho...

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

By: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Mariner Books

The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index.

The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention)

By: The Invisible Committee

Semiotext(e)

Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.
from The Coming Insurrection

The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debordand with comparable eleganceit has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and ...

American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us

By: Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell

Skyhorse Publishing

Jesse Ventura tells it like it is, and this time he tackles our governments biggest secrets. In this explosive account of wrongful acts and on-going cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. For too long, we the people have sat by and let politicians and bureaucrats from both parties obfuscate and lie. And according to this former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, and former Minnesota governor, the media is complicit in these acts of deception. For too long, the mainstream press has refused to consider alternate possibilities and to ask the tough questions. Here, Ventura looks closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and separates the fact ...

The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future

By: Arthur C. Brooks

Basic Books

Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game

By: Chris Matthews

Simon & Schuster

Hardball, first published in 1988, is like a modern version of Machiavelli's The Prince, only much more richly illustrated, with anecdotes drawn from talk-show host Chris Matthews's stint as a congressional staffer (where he worked for, among others, renowned Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill). Discussing such basic principles as "It's not who you know; it's who you get to know" and "Don't get mad, don't get even--get ahead," Matthews not only dishes out choice Washington insider info, he has over the years inspired many readers to apply his principles for political success to their own professional lives.

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

By: Mark R. Levin

Threshold Editions

When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in conservatism a #1 New York Times bestseller for an astounding twelve weeks. As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, with his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers reflected on every page, Levin's galvanizing narrative provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society. In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, th...

What's So Great about America

By: Dinesh D'Souza

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Look again at the title of this book: it's not a question, but a statement. "America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence," writes Dinesh D'Souza. "American life as it is lived today [is] the best life that our world has to offer." There are those who hate it, or at least essential elements of it, from radical Islamists to the likes of Patrick Buchanan (on the right) and Jesse Jackson (on the left). But they are wrong to hate it, and D'Souza grapples with all of them in this engaging and compelling volume. D'Souza is the author of provocative books such as Illiberal Education and The End of Racism, plus the appreciative Ronald Reagan. This may be his most personal book, with parts written in the first person as the India-born D'Souza ...

Hopes and Prospects

By: Noam Chomsky

Haymarket Books

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

By: Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe

Threshold Editions

It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.

Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is...

Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: know...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

Plume

John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gri...

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are ...

By: Jim Marrs

William Morrow

America's economy is in shambles. . . .
Its citizens are terrified and dissatisfied. . . .
Could it all have been planned by a secret elite one hundred years ago?

The New World Order. Hitler referred to it in his diaries. President George H. W. Bush foretold of it in his speeches. Formed by a secretive global elite, the group seeking this new order has taken hold of the nation—and perhaps the world. Its influence pervades every reach of American society, from the products we buy at the grocery store to the topics of evening news programs.

But could it also be true that the New World Order caused one of the greatest financial catastrophes of our time?

For years, bestselling author and legendary conspiracy researcher ...

Leadership: Theory and Practice

Sage Publications, Inc

Leading Change

By: John P. Kotter

Harvard Business Press

What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used in the attempt to transform their companies into stronger competitors -- total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds -- routinely fall short, says Kotter, because they fail to alter behavi...

The Post-American World

By: Fareed Zakaria

W. W. Norton & Company

Book Description
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many othersas the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is produ...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Picador

A Civil Action

By: Jonathan Harr

Vintage

**TRUE STORY. Will Leave The Reader Both Shocked And Enlightened. A Searing, Compelling Tale Of A Legal System Gone Awry In Which Greed And Power Fight An Unending Struggle Against Justice. An Epic Courtroom Showdown. Two Of The Nation's Largest Corporations Stand Accused Of Causing The Deaths Of Children. Representing The Bereaved Parents, The Unlikeliest Of Heroes Emerges: A Young, Flamboyant Porsche-Driving Lawyer Who Hopes To Win Millions Of Dollars And Ends Up Nearly Losing Everything, Including His Sanity.

Behold a Pale Horse

By: William Cooper

Light Technology Publications

Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper 1991 Paperback

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

By: George Friedman

Anchor

Amazon Best of the Month, January 2009: "Be Practical, Expect the Impossible." So declares George Friedman, chief intelligence officer and founder of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor), a private intelligence agency whose clients include foreign government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Gathering information from its global network of operatives and analysts (drawing the nickname "the Shadow CIA"), Stratfor produces thoughtful and genuinely engrossing analysis of international events daily, from possible outcomes of the latest Pakistan/India tensions to the hierarchy of Mexican drug cartels to challenges to Obama's nascent administration. In The Next 100 Years, Friedman undertakes the impossible (or improbable) challenge of forecasting world events thr...

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

By: Jere Van Dyk

Times Books

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the crest of a hill.

Captive is Van Dyk's searing account of his forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature. The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust nobody—not his jailers, not his guides...

When a Nation Forgets God: 7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany

By: Erwin W. Lutzer

Moody Publishers

Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

By: William Voegeli

Encounter Books

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

By: Shane Claiborne

Zondervan

Living as an Ordinary Radical Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the stre

Plato: Republic

By: Plato, G. M. A. Grube, C. D. C. Reeve

Hackett Publishing Company

Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving the subtlety of Plato's philosophical argument and in rendering the dialogue in lively, fluent English, that remains faithful to the original Greek. This revision includes a new introduction, index, and bibliography by Reeve.

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

By: Milton Friedman

University Of Chicago Press

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity

By: Bill O'Reilly

Broadway

The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigids School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one.

Already, I had barely survived my first two years at St. Brigids because I was, well, a little nitwit. Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechisms fine prose, which featured passages like God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven, I was constantly annoying my classmates and, of course, the no-nonsense Sister ...

Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open...

By: Tim Wise

City Lights Publishers

The Prince (Special Student Edition)

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

CreateSpace

This 6"x9" large sized Special Student Edition of THE PRINCE has blank pages for notes on each right-hand page to allow students to make notations. Complete translated text with an introduction on the life of Machiavelli.