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Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Pub Date: Feb 28, 2012
A sharp, clear, deeply researched examination of the consistent application of the founding religious principles to American foreign policy, from the colonists' sense of a Protestant exceptionalism to President Obama's "Good Niebuhr Policy."
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Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Pub Date: Feb 21, 2012
An exposé on the production and consumption of food in America.
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Pub Date: Feb 14, 2012
The strange, sad, hilarious story of the Soviet Union's blind pursuit of a Communist paradise, told through a mix of history and fiction, using both to get to the truth.
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New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Pub Date: Feb 14, 2012
Edge.org founder and publisher Brockman (Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution, 2011, etc.) asks a group of eminent scientists and writers their views on the question, "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?"
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My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies
Pub Date: Feb 14, 2012
Grim, well-told memoir of a boyhood among the much-maligned Romany Gypsy "travelers" of Britain.
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A History of the FBI
Pub Date: Feb 14, 2012
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents and oral histories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, 2008, etc.) delivers an authoritative and often frightening history of what has been, in effect, America's secret police.
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