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Released: June 24, 2013
"A thorough disclosure on today's airlines and the passengers who use them--best read while still on the ground."
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Released: June 25, 2013
"A well-written book, mostly free of jargon, that is short on practical solutions and thus, profoundly pessimistic."
A high-ranking economist employed by a major international bank expresses pessimism about the future of the economy in the United States and other traditionally powerful nations.
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Released: June 25, 2013
"An aggressive, unapologetic account of one man's brutal war."
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Released: June 26, 2013
"An eye-opening account of corruption and secrecy."
Why Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, became the first pope to be cited for crimes against humanity.
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Released: July 1, 2013
"Well-written but lacks coherence."
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Released: July 2, 2013
"A solid blend of the descriptive and the prescriptive, with plenty of lessons that will be of interest to Asia hands, investors and policymakers."
China Economic Quarterly founder Studwell (
Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 2007, etc.) delivers a sometimes-contrarian, sometimes-counterintuitive look at the fortunes of Asia's economies, for better or worse.
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Released: July 9, 2013
"An important, sometimes-groundbreaking account of police gone wild."
Huffington Post senior investigative reporter Balko combines a searing exposé focusing on a specific kind of police brutality with a contextual history of police violence from the Roman Empire through today.
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Released: July 16, 2013
"Teaching is a tough job, but Esquith shows that its rewards can be profound."
Award-winning teacher Esquith (
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World, 2009, etc.) shares the ups and downs of his career.
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Released: July 16, 2013
"Controversial, of course, but well-grounded in data and fact. Anyone with an interest in economic policy ought to have a look."
Blame it all on Ronald Reagan--every damn bit of misery and immiseration that has befallen the middle and lower classes in the past three decades. That's the thunder-stealing takeaway of former Treasury Department assistant secretary and World Bank executive Tyler's book.
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Released: July 30, 2013
"An intriguing presentation of views seldom reported so readably and in such depth, offering a fresh new perspective to American readers."
Authoritative historical overview of the European Union by a policy adviser and speechwriter for the current president of the European Council.
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Released: Aug. 1, 2013
"A forcefully presented, corrective analytical approach to today's headline-grabbing orthodoxy."
"The story on which the current practice of [counterinsurgency] depends…is a myth [and] a recipe for perpetual war," insists Gentile (
Securing the Snake's Head: The Question of Air Power as a Political Instrument in the Post Cold-War Security Environment, 2012, etc.), a former Iraq War commander and director of the military history program at West Point.
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Released: Aug. 1, 2013
"Readers willing to wade through the textbook-style prose will be convinced of this subject's importance."
