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Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again

Peter J. Wallison

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies and is codirector of the American...

Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

Roger Scruton

Conservatism, as Roger Scruton reminds us, was founded during the 18th-century Enlightenment…Society is best seen as...

The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World s Top Climate Scientists

Roy W. Spencer

About the Author Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was...

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

Emily Bazelon

“Emily Bazelon’s new book about the American judicial system reads like two books. Both are crucial to...

Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds

Rand Paul

Praise for The Tea Party Goes to Washington:"An exciting and needed call to change for all Americans" --- Sarah...

George F. Kennan: An American Life

John Lewis Gaddis

Magisterial . . . [Kennan] bids fair to be as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important,...

Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

David Litt

“Wry, quickly readable, yet informed and edgy . . . whimsy and pop culture, enlisted toward the end of knowledge.”...

Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying

James M. Olson

A thoughtful, provocative analysis of practically every possible moral dilemma that is ever likely to prick the...

Diet for a Small Planet (Revised and Updated)

Frances Moore Lappé

Review “A small number of people in every generation are forerunners—in thought, action, spirit—who swerve past...

The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption

Carol Schaefer

From Publishers Weekly In 1965, as a pregnant, unmarried 19-year-old member of an image-conscious, Catholic, southern...

The Pocket Cloud Book Updated Edition

Richard Hamblyn

About the Author Dr Richard Hamblyn is a post-doctoral research fellow at Nottingham University, England, and is the...

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

Sidney Jacobson

Book Description The 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report...

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

WikiLeaks

“Long after the debate over the publication of these cables has been forgotten, the documents themselves will remain...

Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America

Rand Paul

About the Author SENATOR RAND PAUL has represented Kentucky in the United States Senate since winning the seat in 2010....

Looking for Trouble: The Classic Memoir of a Trailblazing War Correspondent

Virginia Cowles

“Virginia Cowles went looking for trouble, and did she find it. . . . Her beauty, savvy and sheer impudence regularly...

How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Finalist for Laissez Faire Books’ 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty “Thank heaven...

It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom

Andrew P. Napolitano

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, currently seen by millions of viewers...

The Kalam Effect

P. M. Nair

About the Author P.M. Nair had a long and varied carrier in the IAS which he joined in 1967. In July 2002, he was...

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

Leo McKinstry

About the Author Leo McKinstry is a first-class historian of the Second World War and author of the bestselling...

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell

“Gripping… Gladwell is a wonderful storyteller… in [his] deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come...

The Mueller Report

The Washington Post

The Washington Post has built an unparalleled reputation in its coverage of the Special Counsel s investigation and...

Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee

Winner of thexa0getAbstract International Book Award― getAbstract "Excellent...Few have grappled as energetically...

Deficit Myth

Stephanie Kelton

Kelton writes clearly and directly, and does well to keep the lay reader in mind throughout. This comprehensive, lucid...

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

Kelton writes clearly and directly, and does well to keep the lay reader in mind throughout. This comprehensive, lucid...