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THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE
Why the New Global Order Constantly Surprises Us and What to Do About It
Pub Date: Mar 23, 3009
Think things are weird, dangerous and frightening now? Just wait, counsels Kissinger Associates managing director and former Time editor Ramo (No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport, 2003)--the mayhem is only beginning.
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OF AFRICA
Pub Date: Nov 1, 2012
The Nigerian 1986 Nobel Laureate (Literature) offers a slender, hopeful volume about his native continent's potential for healing the world's spiritual ills.
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SPILLOVER
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2012
Nature writer and intrepid traveler Quammen (The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, 2006, etc.) sums up in one absorbing volume what we know about some of the world's scariest scourges: Ebola, AIDS, pandemic influenza--and what we can do to thwart the "NBO," the Next Big One.
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FREE MARKET REVOLUTION
How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
Pub Date: Sep 18, 2012
"Capitalism is the system of selfishness--of rational selfishness." Ayn Rand acolytes Brook (Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, 2010) and Watkins sing the same old hymn, with a slightly different chorus, to the same old choir.
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HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED
Rethinking Character and Intelligence
Pub Date: Sep 4, 2012
Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough (Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, 2008) argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life.
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A WOMAN IN THE CROSSFIRE
Diaries of the Syrian Revolution
Pub Date: Sep 1, 2012
Haunting memoir of an unwanted season in the hellish combat of civil war.
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