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Released: June 11, 2013
"A well-crafted investigation for nonspecialists about an obscure, needlessly arcane corner of Wall Street."
A Wall Street insider–turned–investigative journalist explains the collapse of the high-risk hedge fund Amaranth LLC and how it affected small businesses, pension funds and the price of natural gas across North America.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An intriguing, revealing study of Arabs' changing views of themselves and the world as their countries open up--deserves a wide audience."
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An alarming, not-incorrect diagnosis, but an argument too one-sided and a solution so lofty as to be of little use."
Collaborating once more (
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, 2010), Nichols, the
Nation's Washington, D.C., correspondent, and academic McChesney (Communications/Univ. of Illinois) decry the pernicious influence of Big Money on our elections.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Serious bureaucratic, technological and environmental issues, unpacked with facility, provide digestible food for thought."
Morris (
The Trillion-Dollar Meltdown, 2008, etc.) presents a persuasive, upbeat forecast of economic growth, starting now, for the United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Dry but disturbingly illuminating in the possible ramifications."
Everything you ever suspected or feared about music as a weapon, sound as torture and the expansion of the military-industrial complex to encompass entertainment.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Wonkish at times, but a real eye-opener."
Searching, provocative history of the most secretive--and globally influential--of Swiss banks, "the most important bank in the world and predates both the IMF and the World Bank."
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The president's supporters and, really, all political junkies will love this. Republicans, not so much."
A veteran author, journalist and commentator chronicles the campaign that assured President Barack Obama a second term and cemented a consensus among Americans stretching back to the New Deal.
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Released: June 3, 2013
"A useful, engaging primer for anyone wishing to understand the politics, precedent and procedures that have shaped the Senate."
Two longtime observers of our government in action offer a multidimensional study of the history, traditions and culture of the United States Senate.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"An earnest but fairly unskilled rendering of a humanitarian worker's trials and tribulations in Afghanistan."
An activist's candid account of the hardships she endured working as a human rights officer for the United Nations.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"A compelling example of investigative reporting that suggests continuing mass death for an African population that cannot or will not help itself find peace."
An intrepid journalist investigates the civil war, foreign interventions and mass starvation of Somalia.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 30, 2013
"People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so it's been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention."
Mexico-born U.S. journalist Corchado frames a portrait of a torn nation within an account of escaping his own murder.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"A frustrating mixture of incontrovertible facts and dubious speculation. Proceed with caution."
A nationally syndicated conservative columnist explores the extent and impact of the Soviet Union's penetration of the United States government.
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