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22 Mice That Roar ... World's Tiniest Nations
by John T. Cullen
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Here are 22 of the world's tiniest nations, many full of whacky surprises: one nation's army consists of a marching band and a few cars; another nation consists largely of bird poop; and a third of these midgets is basically a shopping mall. Don't miss the fun. Entertaining and informative nonfiction for today's reader on the go. (Published: 2003)
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir [Secure]
by Bill O'Reilly
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The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid's School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one. Already, I had barely survived my first two years at St. Brigi... more info>>
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto [Secure]
by Mark R. Levin
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Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levin's clarion call to conservative America, a new ... more info>>
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The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
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The Federalist Papers were a series of articles written under the pen name of Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Madison, widely recognized as the Father of the Constitution, would later go on to become President of the United States. Jay would become the first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. Hamilton would serve in the Cabinet and become a major force in setting economic policy for the U. S. The entire purpose of The Federalist Papers was to gain popular suppo... more info>> (Published: 1788)
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Unsolved UFO Mysteries: The World's Most Compelling Cases of Alien Encounter [Secure]
by William J. Birnes
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From strange lights passing silently over American cities to reported weapons fire on the moon, bizarre UFO mysteries have the unnerving power to enthrall, fascinate, and terrify. Now William J. Birnes, publisher of UFO Magazine, and UFO investigator Harold Burt combine their files to present today's most baffling UFO cases. Explore all the amazing details of these plus numerous other incredible cases that should have made headlines! Are we finally ready to confront the answers to these enigmas?... more info>>
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A Capitol UFO
by Gary Dillman
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It was July 26, 2002. Ten months had barely passed since the horrifying 9-11 attack on the United States. The country was on terrorist watch. A no-fly zone had been established around the nation's capitol. Radar at several Washington-area airports scanned the skies for any threat of attack. This was not a good time for an unidentified flying object to approach the capitol. Suddenly, an hour after midnight, fighter jets were scrambled when radar picked up a UFO twenty miles from the nation's capi... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America [Secure]
by Chris Hedges
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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Mea... more info>>
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Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror [Secure]
by Yossef Bodansky
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In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected--and best-informed--experts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little-understood crucible of terror in the struggle between East and West. In his number one New York Times bestseller, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, published before 9/11, Bodansky was among the first to introduce American readers to Osama bin Lad... more info>>
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming [Secure]
by Bjorn Lomborg
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A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting wit... more info>>
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Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror [Secure]
by Peter Lance
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Alongside the bestselling 9/11 Commission Report is investigative journalist Peter Lance's expose of the government's decade long cover-up about al Qaeda, and how they're still hiding the truth today. In the groundbreaking 1000 Years for Revenge, Peter Lance exposed the FBI's twelve-year record of negligence that led to the attacks of 9/11. Now, alongside the bestselling 9/11 Commission Report, Lance's Cover Up, proves that the government has been covering up its own counter?terror failures sinc... more info>>
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Crime Beat [Secure]
by Michael Connelly
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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell th... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Culture Warrior [Secure]
by Bill O'Reilly
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Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior--and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a "secular-progressive" country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are e... more info>>
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Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today [Secure]
by Jasper Becker
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Jasper Becker's book, The Chinese, was hailed as the best single-volume introduction to this enormous, inscrutable society. The Washington Post said, "He has been everywhere and asked every question," describing his conclusions as "right in both details and analysis." Since then, China's role in world affairs has only grown greater. No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China--and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, appearing just as world attention begins to focus on the... more info>>
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Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World [Secure]
by Liza Mundy
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Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. In this riveting work of investigative reporting, Liza Mundy, an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind what is today a controversial, multibillion-dollar industry, and examines how the huge social experiment that is assi... more info>>
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Everything Is Under Control [Secure]
by Robert A. Wilson
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Before the X-Files, before alt.conspiracy, there was Robert Anton Wilson and his legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now this avatar of conspiriology, renowned for his razor wit and progressive philosophy, takes you on a fascinating, eclectic ride through what Wilson has termed the "Cultic Twilight" where conspiracy theories flourish. Everything Is Under Control covers the range of Wilson's kaleidoscopic knowledge, from John Adams to the Voronezh (former Soviet Union) UFO sighting, the Campus Crusa... more info>>
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Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out [Secure]
by Steve Jarding, Dave Saunders
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Like a newly discovered treasure map offering a path to buried riches, Foxes in the Henhouse is a hard-hitting political blueprint for how the Democrats can win again in the South and rural America. The authors document the Republicans' rise in the South and Midwest, expose the hypocrisy that marked their ascent, and offer a take-no-prisoners plan to kick them out. The authors know of what they speak. "Rural strategists" Steve Jarding and Dave "Mudcat" Saunders are famous for securing Democratic... more info>>
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China [Secure]
by James Fallows
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"Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows." --from "China Makes, the World Takes" Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows h... more info>>
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality [Secure]
by Charles Murray
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"Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," said a well-known educator, albeit in a religious schooling context. Charles Murray is concerned with the secular world of education, nonetheless his message is worthy of evangelism: Tell the truth, and the truth shall make you free of foolish, cruel, and counter-productive educational policies." --P. J. O'Rourke "Charles Murray, arguably the most consequential social scientist alive, has discovered a nifty formula for fame (or infamy): One, i... more info>>
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Rebirth of a Nation [Secure]
by Jackson Lears
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In the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, widespread yearning for a new beginning permeated American public life. Dreams of spiritual, moral, and physical rebirth formed the foundation for the modern United States, inspiring its leaders with imperial ambition. Theodore Roosevelt's desire to recapture frontier vigor led him to promote U.S. interests throughout Latin America. Woodrow Wilson's vision of a reborn international order drew him into a war to end war. Andrew Carnegie's ... more info>>
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Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life [Secure]
by Michael Medved
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Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers--and more than his share of enemies--by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including: Liberals love losing because it makes them feel virtuous; America isn't normal--it's bizarrely blessed; Hollywood has lost touch with America--and punishes people who point that out;... more info>>
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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush [Secure]
by Molly Ivins
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When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger. A candidate of vague speeches and an ambiguous platform, Bush leads the pack of GOP 2000 presidential hopefuls; "Dubya" could very well be our next president. What voters need now is an original, smart, and accessible analysi... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price [Secure]
by Jonathan Cohn
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America's health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families--unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even more valuable: their health or even their lives. In this powerful work of original reportage, Jonathan Cohn travels across the United States--the only country in the de... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It [Secure]
by Joshua Cooper Ramo
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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction. The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthi... more info>>
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream [Secure]
by Barack Obama
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Senator Obama called "the audacity of hope." Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a p... more info>>
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The Devil's Delusion [Secure]
by David Berlinski
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Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement--one that now includes much of the scientific community. "The attack on traditional religious thought," writes David Berlinski in The Devil's Delusion, "marks the consolidation in our time of science as the single system of beli... more info>>
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