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  1. Book ImageNecessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law

    Gabriel Schoenfeld

    An intensely controversial scrutiny of American democracy’s fundamental tension between the competing imperatives of security and openness.More

  2. Book ImageFrom Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism

    Darren Dochuk

    A sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics.More

  3. Book ImageUncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future

    Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor

    Revised and Updated Edition

    With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and Native American populations, race is both the most dynamic facet of American identity and the defining point of American disunity.More

  4. Book ImagePalestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

    Saree Makdisi

    “A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice.”—Desmond M. TutuMore

  5. Book ImageIn the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

    Seth G. Jones

    “How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street JournalMore

  6. Book ImageThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    Michael Lewis

    A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.More

  7. Book ImageSupernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

    Deirdre Barrett

    A Harvard psychologist explains how our once-helpful instincts get hijacked in our garish modern world.More

  8. Book ImageAbout a Mountain

    John D'Agata

    From “one of the most significant U.S. writers” (David Foster Wallace), an investigation of Yucca Mountain and human destruction in Las Vegas.More

  9. Book ImageFreefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.More

  10. Book ImageState of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability

    The Worldwatch Institute

    The premier environmental nonprofit shows the ways to transform our consumer culture into a culture centered on sustainability.More

  11. Book ImageGray Land: Soldiers on War

    Barry Goldstein

    Photographs of, and candid interviews with, soldiers of the Iraq War, documenting the extraordinary challenges they face.More

  12. Book ImageWaste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

    Tristram Stuart

    The true cost of what the global food industry throws away.More

  13. Book ImagePlan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    Lester R. Brown

    Substantially Revised

    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

  14. Book ImagePhysics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

    Richard A. Muller

    “A triumph.”—Steve Weinberg, Boston GlobeMore

  15. Book ImagePortrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

    Ivan Vladislavic

    “Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff DyerMore

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