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Inside Obama's Brain
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 24.95"Never has the world needed strong and wise American leadership more than it does now. Abramsky's eminently readable description of Obama's personal gifts makes it clear that he is remarkably suited to be the president the moment requires." -Former New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo From the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack... more...
Overdosed America
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., reveals the ways... more...
The Quotable Giuliani
Pocket Books 2002; US$ 16.99"If you've got a problem with New York City being the capital of the world, take it up with the Pope." As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize "the greatest city in the world." Never one to pull punches, he did things the way they had to be done, not the way everyone else thought... more...
Understanding the Insider Threat
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Reports the results of a workshop on the problems of ensuring the security of information against malevolent actions by insiders in the intelligence community (IC) with access to sensitive information and information systems. Attendees discussed community system models, vulnerabilities and exploits, attacker models, and event characterization, and... more...
The Imperative of Integration
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 45.00More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would... more...
Ask a Mexican
Scribner 2007; US$ 15.00DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN! ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent... more...
Independent Nation
Crown Publishing Group 2004; US$ 15.95Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to win the White House?and twenty-first-century candidates... more...
Wingnuts
Beast Books 2010; US$ 15.95What?s a Wingnut? It?s someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans and the unhinged activists, the hardcore haters and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They?re the people who always try to divide us instead of unite us. Wingnuts looks at the outbreak of extremism in the opening years... more...
See No Evil
Crown Publishing Group 2002; US$ 16.00In See No Evil , one of the CIA?s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA?s efforts to root out... more...
Sleeping with the Devil
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 13.95?Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state?a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can?t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?? In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No... more...









