2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many...
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Author: Kilcullen, DavidSummary:Genre: Political science -
Author: Morley, JeffersonSummary:CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the...
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Author: Fitzgerald, ScottSummary:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860....
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Author: Lee, Robert E.Summary:Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness...
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Author: Jaminet, PaulSummary:Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and...
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Author: Hogan, James P.Summary:When they found a dead man on the moon, clad in a red spacesuit and hidden in a rocky grave, they didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his...
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Author: Powell, Benjamin, Lawson, RobertSummary:The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists...
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Author: Maloney, Leo J.Summary:Retired black-ops agent Dan Morgan returns to duty when he receives a desperate plea from his former partner. After running head-on into an ambush, Morgan is running for his life and will soon...
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Author: David, Leonard, Aldrin, BuzzSummary:Legendary "space statesman" Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. He has a vision, and in this book he...
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Author: Dye, PaulSummary:Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, where...
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Author: Gingrich, NewtSummary:
Bestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their quest for power. The struggle between the defenders of America as an...
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Author: Lockwood, IngersollSummary:This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster. Authored by Ingersoll Lockwood-around...
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Author: Vidal Manzanares, CésarSummary:
On December 26, 1991, an event of extraordinary importance in universal history took place.It involved the dissolution of the Soviet Union, an event of enormous repercussions that almost no one...
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Author: Yazdani, Ashley BenhamSummary:
In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be-a park with ponds to row on...
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Author: Tate, KristinSummary:
Progressive upper-middle-class urbanites are deserting expensive liberal meccas like New York and San Francisco and flocking to traditionally red states like Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, and...
Genre: Political science