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Released: May 14, 2013
"Military buffs will give this high marks; general readers may find it hard to relate to the author's relentlessly macho ethos, but they will find it hard not to admire his fierce dedication."
Memoirs from members of Special Forces tend to mix combat fireworks with a leavening of modesty, but O'Neal, writing with veteran co-author Fisher (with Tom Coughlin:
Earn the Right to Win, 2013, etc.), dispenses with the modesty at no great cost.
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Released: May 8, 2013
"A well-reasoned survey by a scholar who excels at long-term thinking."
Examination of North Korea's misery-producing dictatorship, why it cannot last and how to replace it.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A page-turner in which each of the stories is different but compelling."
Freelance journalist Richards chronicles how five single women attempted to take charge of their own fertility.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Intriguing reading for an academic audience."
An expert in sociology and organizational methods challenges the view that business has too much influence on government.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Remember that old saw about making sausages and making laws--that you don't want to know too much about either one? Kaiser disproves it with this lucid if sometimes numbing book."
A painstaking, richly detailed look at how the suite of financial reforms that followed the bank near-collapse of 2008 came to be--and nearly didn't come to be, even as they were defanged.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"It's a pleasure to find so even and logical a voice in these pages, which deserve broad airing."
At last, a conservative treatise that isn't too bilious to taste--and that is often entertaining even as it is provocative.
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Released: May 2, 2013
American Prospect co-founder and -editor Kuttner (
A Presidency In Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power and the Struggle to Control Our Economic Future, 2010, etc.) critiques the Obama administration's embrace of debt-driven austerity policies and calls for the resumption of postponed financial reforms.
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Released: May 1, 2013
"A forcefully written treatment of the plight in which an increasing number of people find themselves."
What will the future hold when the best-educated generation ever can't find the employment for which it is qualified? Brussels-based
Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires reporter Froymovich debuts with an impressive presentation of the challenges raised by this question.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Alperovitz's conversational style avoids academic jargon while making complex issues easy (some might say too easy) to digest, but he's not likely to convince those of the conservative persuasion that a more hopeful future involves more collective action and government consolidation."
Any cure for America's economic plight lies deeper than politics as usual, argues an author who believes that a fundamental, radical, systemic transformation offers the possibility of an economic corrective.
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Released: May 1, 2013
"A credible book to inspire even the most cynical among us."
The latest title in the publisher's School of Life series aims to be a guide to social and cultural change.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"Due to the fact that Texas is thriving while much of America struggles, it might be wise to consider what Texas is doing right."
"I wanted to write a book that would help people come to terms with the existence of Texas," writes
Texas Monthly senior editor Grieder of her debut.
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Released: April 22, 2013
"A clarion call for change and more--not less--engagement with Islam."
