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Waiting for the Monsoon

Waiting for the Monsoon

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By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations

The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations

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Thoroughly updated throughout, this new edition of The World Since 1945 traces the major political, economic, and ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena from the end of...
A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and

A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and

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"Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense actions we...
The "New York Times": The Complete Front Pages, 1851-2008

The "New York Times": The Complete Front Pages, 1851-2008

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For the first time ever, in one indispensable book-and-DVD package, "The New York Times" presents its complete front pages. The book reproduces a selection of 300 front pages covering the...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

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It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

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An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long...
Zero Six Bravo: The Explosive True Story of How 60 Special Forces

Zero Six Bravo: The Explosive True Story of How 60 Special Forces

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Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo --a Sunday Times number one bestseller--tells the story of "sixty special forces against 100,000--a...
The Cambridge World History

The Cambridge World History

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Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

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A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo

I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo

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Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo-China's leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08-and took him away. When Liu...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025

The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025

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An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War

Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War

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From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
Golden State: The Making of California

Golden State: The Making of California

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
The Divorce of Nations: A Diplomat's Inside View as the Global Order

The Divorce of Nations: A Diplomat's Inside View as the Global Order

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An inside perspective to global diplomacy from one of the world's foremost diplomats. Today, we find ourselves in arguably the most dangerous geopolitical situations of modern time. Outlining key moments...
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

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The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

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Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

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The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

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Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

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Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

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The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped...
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

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Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of a new monarch, The Sun looks back on 100...

Broadcast Wars: The money, the ego, the power behind your remote

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BROADCAST WARS is an explosive look at a tumultuous period (2003-2011) in Australian television as the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management...
Letter To An Unknown Soldier: If you could write a letter to a First

Letter To An Unknown Soldier: If you could write a letter to a First

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On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he's reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

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Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and

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One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

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A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with trauma and crisis, why some recover, and others don't. In his...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

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A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything

How The World Ran Out Of Everything

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By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...