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The 10 Big Lies About America
By: Medved, Michael
Published by: Crown Publishing Group

“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country—in spite of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. more...

Price: $15.00

1000 Years For Revenge
By: Peter Lance
Published by: Harper Collins (UK)

1000 Years for Revenge is a groundbreaking investigative work that uncovers startling evidence of how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989. Award-winning journalist Peter Lance explains how an elusive al Qaeda mastermind defeated the entire American security system in what the author calls "the greatest failure of intelligence since the Trojan Horse." Threading the stories of FBI agent Nancy Floyd, FDNY fire marshal Ronnie Bucca, and bomb-maker Ramzi Yousef, Lance uncovers the years of behind-the-scenes intrigue that put these three strangers on a collision course. An unparalleled work of investigative reporting and masterful storytelling, 1000 Years for Revenge will change forever the way we look at the FBI and the war on terror in the twenty-first century. more...

Price: $12.99

109 East Palace
By: Conant, Jennet
Published by: S&S Ebooks

In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable. more...

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11 September 2001
By: Gokay, Bulent; Walker, R.B.J.
Published by: Frank Cass

In a comprehensive study of the world since September 11th, 2001, the contributors to this volume offer a series of perspectives on current security trends. The scholars who participated in this study are from Europe, North America and Asia. more...

Price: $51.95

25 April 1915
By: Cameron, David W.
Published by: Allen & Unwin

A detailed account of what happened to the Australian, New Zealand and Turkish troops on the beaches and hills of the Gallipoli peninsula on that fateful day - the day the ANZAC legend was born. more...

Price: $23.95

34 Days
By: Harel, A.; Issacharoff, A.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.

Using hundreds of exclusive insider sources, two Israeli journalists examine Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, in a gripping and suspenseful narrative. more...

Price: $27.95

The 7 Deadly Scenarios
By: Krepinevich, Andrew
Published by: Bantam Books

A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. more...

Price: $27.00

Abortion in the United States
By: Vasan, Mildred (ed.); McBride, Dorothy
Published by: ABC-Clio

Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook offers a balanced, objective look at the ultimate ìwedgeî issue in American culture. This volume offers a revealing history of abortion politics and policy from the 1800s to Roe v. Wade to the present, with clear analyses of disputes such as public funding for abortion, the status of the fetus, contraception, abortion as a ìlitmus testî for candidates and judicial nominees, and more.||A separate chapter looks at abortion politics throughout the world and places the United States in a global context. Biographies of major players, extensive data and documents, and a bibliography of important resources make this an essential resource on one of the most controversial topics in our national dialog. more...

Price: $77.00

The Abu Ghraib Effect
By: Eisenman, Stephen
Published by: Reaktion Books

Skillfully weaving together visual theory, history, philosophy, and current events, Stephen Eisenman probe the iconic images from the detention center at Abu Ghraib. more...

Price: $19.95

AC/DC
By: McNichol, Tom
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. more...

Price: $24.95

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