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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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."
NONFICTION
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 18, 2013
"A relaxed yet disturbing look at an alternative lifestyle, its heady profits and its hidden costs. "
Straightforward overview of Northern California's "Emerald Triangle," the rural region renowned for producing America's best cannabis.
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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 5, 2013
"As delightful as it is intelligent and important."
A journalist's inspiring story of the "Pink Gang," a group of ordinary women fighting for justice in the political badlands of Northern India.
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