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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the vein of Bernard Goldberg's 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA, John Nichols delivers an urgent and necessary guide to the people who will have the power to really screw up America in the next four years.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A major movie, starring Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and directed by Steven Spielberg, offers the biggest platform yet for the bestselling series of books with Participant Media, which have included Food Inc and Waiting for Superman.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo , a stunning collection of political portraits from the final dozen years of the twentieth century.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Fresh Air commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A guide to political issues, for younger Americans, using plain talk and humor in an attempt to appeal to a demographic notoriously uninterested in politics. Outlines issues such as the future of Social Security, crime prevention, education reform, the environment, and the federal debt, and urges re.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Looks at the life of Senator John Kerry, covering his background, military service, his political career, and his presidential campaign.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. For a Father's Day gift or everyday inspiration: a specially priced new paperback edition of the critically acclaimed memoir.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Looks at the life of Senator John Kerry, covering his background, military service, his political career, and his presidential campaign.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A spirited guide to the classics of feminism, examining how well the canon holds up to the realities of marriage and motherhood.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In the vein of Bernard Goldberg's 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA, John Nichols delivers an urgent and necessary guide to the people who will have the power to really screw up America in the next four years.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A colorful look at rural America's rebound-and at the tensions created when urban expatriates meet old-time country values-centered on a Colorado community and its one-room school house. . In the 1990s, rural America increased in population three times faster than it did in the 1980s, as people left cities searching for a slower pace, new opportunities, and better schools. Battle Rock is the examination of one such rural community tucked into McElmo Canyon in the remote southwest corner of Colorado. From 1999-2000, Bill Celis lived in the community and attended Battle Rock school, which sits in the middle of the canyon, providing both a real and figurative divider between the longtime farmers and ranchers from the newer urban expatriates. As Celis warmly describes the daily lives of the canyon residents, the children, and their teacher, he carefully paints the portrait of a community under pressure resulting from conflicting viewpoints, goals and values. Along the way, he encounters bull snakes and loaded revolvers, Anasazi ruins and majestic vistas, poverty, stubbornness, ghosts, a cattle drive, and the daily struggles on the playground and in school board meetings. In Battle Rock, Celis puts to rest the common misperception that smaller communities offer simpler lives.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. For a Father's Day gift or everyday inspiration: a specially priced new paperback edition of the critically acclaimed memoir.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Based on the acclaimed film that debuted at Sundance, leading experts make a case for summoning the will to eliminate food insecurity and hunger in America.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A scientific history with many plot twists, this is the story of one man's career combating mankind's most persistent disease, and the ground-breaking effects his work had on people's lives across the United States and in the rest of the world.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Antoine van Agtmael coined the term "emerging markets" and built a career and a multibillion-dollar investing firm centered on these surging economies that would, over time, supplant the West as engines of wealth and prosperity. The trend held for decades, but a few years ago van Agtmael and Alfred Bakker, a renowned European journalist, began seeing signs that the tide might be turning. For example, during a visit to an enormously successful chip company in Taiwan, the company's leaders told them that their American competitors were now eating their lunch. And Taiwan was not the only place giving them this message.Thus began a remarkable two-year journey to reassess the conventional wisdom that the United States and Europe are yesterday's story and to determine whether there something profound is happening that points the way to the creation of the next economy. In The Smartest Places on Earth, van Agtmael and Bakker present a truly hopeful and inspiring investigation into the emerging sources of a new era of competitiveness for America and Europe that are coming from unlikely places--those cities and areas once known as "rustbelts" that have, from an economic perspective, been written off. Take Akron, Ohio, whose economy for decades was dependent on industries such as tire manufacturing, a product now made cheaply elsewhere. In Akron and other such communities, a combination of forces--including visionary thinkers, government initiatives, start-ups making real products, and even big corporations--have succeeded in creating what van Agtmael and Bakker call a "brainbelt." These brainbelts depend on a collaborative work style that is unique to the societies and culture of America and Europe, since they involve levels of trust and freedom of thinking that can't be replicated elsewhere. They are producing products and technologies that are transforming industries such as vehicles and transportation, farming and food production, medical devices and health care.For several decades, American and European industry focused on cost by outsourcing production to those emerging markets that can make things cheaper. The tide has now turned toward being smart, as van Agtmael and Bakker report, and the next emerging market, may, in fact, be the West.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Fresh Air commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A scientific history with many plot twists, this is the story of one man's career combating mankind's most persistent disease, and the ground-breaking effects his work had on people's lives across the United States and in the rest of the world.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered and became a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind. He explains the neurological effects of a variety of powerful drugs, and shows how they speak to the brain -- itself designed to seek rewards and soothe pain -- in its own language. And he illuminates how craving overtakes the nervous system, sculpting a synaptic network dedicated to one goal -- more -- at the expense of everything else.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. This portrait of modern Israel's founding fathers--the generation of brave, defining leaders unafraid to take bold decisions in the national interest--celebrates Israel's history and the choices that have shaped the country.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. This portrait of modern Israel's founding fathers--the generation of brave, defining leaders unafraid to take bold decisions in the national interest--celebrates Israel's history and the choices that have shaped the country.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The renowned broadcast journalist and author explores the culture, history, challenges, and pleasures of her favorite recreational sport in this deliciously illustrated book.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The CEO of AARP, the world's largest nonprofit, is changing the current conversation about what it means to get older, focusing on three core areas-health, wealth, and self-to help people embrace opportunities and to reinforce the idea that aging is something to look forward to-not something to fear.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A handbook for how political power really works -- what it takes to make change happen, and most importantly, how active citizens can take possession of it.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A handbook for how political power really works -- what it takes to make change happen, and most importantly, how active citizens can take possession of it.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Modern linguistics has become a leading edge of the political fight, and in America, the right is winning the (re) presentation battle time after time. The Republican Party has become harder, meaner and better at getting out the message. This is a witty story of the 'Great Re-labelling' of American language and thought.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity, between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also the story of Iran, a restive land lost in the twilight of its revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the country's reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. In these tumultuous times, she struggles to build a life in a dark country, wholly unlike the luminous, saffron and turquoise-tinted Iran of her imagination. As she leads us through the drug-soaked, underground parties of Tehran, into the hedonistic lives of young people desperate for change, Moaveni paints a rare portrait of Iran's rebellious next generation. The landscape of her Tehran , ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes , is populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair brings the modern reality of Iran to vivid life.…