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Written by Bing West
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $28.00
From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice now facing America
During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled in women’s clothes... Read more >
Written by John Zogby
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $26.00
According to super pollster John Zogby, whom The Washington Post calls “the maverick predictor,” the conventional wisdom about the United States–that we’re isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure–isn’t just flawed; it may be 180 degrees from the truth. In this far-reaching and illuminating look at contemporary... Read more >
Written by Michael Brooks
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $23.95
Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense.
Science’s best-kept secret is this: Even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of... Read more >
Written by John Geddes
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $24.95
“They come from across the globe: former special forces soldiers from Britain, the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and every country on the European mainland. There are Gurkhas from the Himalayan foothills and Fijians from the South Sea Islands. There are men who learned their skills with the Japanese antiterrorist paramilitaries...
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Written by Sally Jenkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.
If...
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Written by Glenda Burgess
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $22.95
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient... Read more >
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $27.95
The author of The Book of Sharks, Imagining Atlantis, and Encyclopedia of the Sea turns his gaze to the tuna—one of the biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals and the source of some of the world’s most popular delicacies—now hovering on the brink of extinction. In recent years, the...
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Written by Michael Erard
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we've come to judge them.
Um... is about how you really speak, and why it's normal for your everyday speech to be filled with errors—about one in every... Read more >
Written by Daniel Libeskind and Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $60.00
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and... Read more >
