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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment

From the streets...

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional....

The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

by Mark Bowden

From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms...

Mugabe and the White African

by Ben Freeth

Since President Mugabe began his violent land-seizure programme in 2000, thousands of white farmers and their families have been forced to abandon all they own and flee Zimbabwe. But Ben Freeth, and his father-in-law,...

Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: You Can Improve and Energize Your Brain at Any Age

by Tour & Michael Eric Dyson

In this provocative book, writer and cultural critic Tour explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race. Drawing on his own experiences and...

We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication

by Judith Warner

A bold, brilliant, and provocative look at childhood medication by New York Times bestselling author Judith Warner

In Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, the bestselling author and former New...

Hating Women

by Shmuley Boteach

From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women...

American Betrayal

by Diana West

In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal,...

The Unwinding

by George Packer

A New York Times Bestseller

One of the iTunes Bookstore’s “Ten Books You Must Read This Summer”

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation...

The Price of Justice

by Laurence Leamer

A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don Blankenship, to justice

Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy...

The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future

by Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel

A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests

Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades...

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

by Elizabeth Becker

Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once...

The Truth about Gun Control

by David B Kopel

Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question...

The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome

by Kevin D. Williamson

The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome is a radical re-visioning of what government is, a powerful analysis of why it doesn't work, and an exploration of the innovative solutions spontaneously emerging...

Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration

by Jody Raphael

The latest volume in the popular trilogy of books about women, poverty, and violence

Earth Changes: Historical, Economical, Political, and Global

by Edgar Cayce

For the first time ever, all of the Edgar Cayce readings dealing with earth changes are available in one volume. This material is insightful and discusses physical changes, economic changes and changes in global...

Poisons in Your Food: The Dangers You Face and What You Can Do About Them

by Ruth Winter

This classic Crown book is back with all of Ruth Winter's original, thorough research about dangerous foods and what consumers can do to protect themselves.

Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Von Bulow Case

by Alan M. Dershowitz

Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.

NOTE: This...

Lights Out

by Scientific American Editors

Traditionally, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are war, famine, plague and death; but while classical authors were familiar with only four horsemen, modern ones could add events such as environmental devastation...

I Heart Sex Workers: A Christian Response to People in the Sex Trade

by Lia Claire Scholl

Paying for sex-engaging in "the oldest profession"--is everywhere, even in your church. The factors leading individuals into sex work are as varied as hair colors, yet sex workers are viewed as powerless individuals...