David H. Freedman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Why Experts* Keep Failing Us--And How to Know When Not to Trust Them *Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity CEOs, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More

Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, test scores are in decline, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well? Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. And, according to acclaimed business and science writer David H. Freedman, such expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong--often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice, and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.

Wrong

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Ram Charan

The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't

Discusses the essential skills people need to accomplish their goals, linking eight important skills of know-how to the psychological traits of a successful leader.

Know-How

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U.S. Department of Commerce

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The National Data Book

What is the average salary of a legal assistant? What job competition do I face as a museum curator? Will I find a job in this economy as a computer programmer? Written by the U.S. Department of Labor, this handbook is designed to provide valuable, up-to-date assistance to individuals making decisions about their futures. Accompanying each profession are descriptions of the nature of the work, working environment, job outlook training, the required education, as well as job earnings, related occupations, and additional information sources. Keep up in the scramble to stay afloat in the waning job market by staying informed as you plan your training and career.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2011-2012

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Deborah Adelman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Moscow Teenagers Talk about Their Lives and the Future

While living in Moscow, Adelman spent several months interviewing teenagers from diverse backgrounds. They talk about their families and their daily lives, relationships, sexuality, gender roles, educational and career choices, current changes in the (then) Soviet Union, socialism and capitalism, views of the West, their own values and ideals, and how they envision their society, its future, and their own roles within it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Children of Perestroika

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Stephen R. Prothero

How the Son of God Became a National Icon

Traces the evolution of diverse images, interpretations, and appraisals of Jesus Christ throughout American culture, explaining how the unique mix of the secular and the sacred in contemporary America is expressed in the person of Jesus. 15,000 first printing.

American Jesus

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Bart D. Ehrman

The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.

Misquoting Jesus

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Dominic Lieven

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace

A revisionist history of the Russian conflict immortalized in Tolstoy's "War and Peace" challenges popular myths, covering such topics as the treaty between Alexander I and Napoleon and the challenges of supplying Russian troops.

Russia Against Napoleon

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Rodric Braithwaite

The World Turned Upside Down

Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From the vantage point of the British Embassy (once the mansion of the great nineteenth-century merchant Pavel Kharitonenko) with its commanding views cross the Moscow River to Red Square and the Kremlin, Braithwaite had a ringside seat. With his long experience of Russia and the Russians, who saw him as 'Mrs. Thatcher's Ambassador', on good personal terms with Mikhail Gorbachev, he was in a privileged position close to the centre of Russia's changing relationship with the West. But this is not primarily a memoir. It is an intimate analysis of momentous change and the people who drove it, against the background of Russia's long history and its unique but essentially European culture. Braithwaite watched as Gorbachev and his allies struggled to modernise and democratise a system which had already reached the point of terminal decay. Against the opposition of the generals, they forced the abandonment of the nuclear confrontation as the Soviet Union fell apart. The climax of the drama came in August 1991 when a miscellaneous collection of conservative patriots - generals, politicians and secret policemen - attempted to reverse the course of history and succeeded only in accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Across the Moscow River

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Iain Murray

Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know about- Because They Helped Cause Them

Al Gore is bad for the planet...
Talk about really inconvenient truths--that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people (yes, that's right) than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny how "pro-choice" and "environmentalist" liberals never talk about that. Or how about this: the Live Earth concert to "save the planet" released more CO2 into the atmosphere than a fleet of 2,000 Humvees emit in a year? We hear a lot about AIDS in Africa, but the number one killer of children in much of Africa is malaria--and guess who was responsible for banning the pesticide that used to have malaria under control? Iain Murray, a sprightly conservative environmental analyst with a long record of skewering liberal hypocrisy, has dug up seven of the all-time greatenvironmental catastrophes caused by the Left and exposed them in The Really Inconvenient Truths. Murray lays bare:

* How ethanol, the liberals' favorite fuel, is destroying the world's rainforests--and could cause global food shortages
* How Al Gore's hero Rachel Carson cost the lives of millions of Africans through her efforts to ban DDT
* How the environmentalists have covered up the polluting effects of contraceptive and chemical abortion drugs
* How the Endangered Species Act actually endangers species
* How Gore's vision of greater state control over the economy has already produced some of the greatest environmental disasters in history

All of us want a planet with clean air and clean water, vibrant forests, healthy animal populations, and glorious open space. But liberal environmentalists aren't the ones to deliver it. In fact, they've made the planet worse, while old-fashioned property rights, unpopular hunters, and the innovative engine of capitalism have made it better. The facts are all here, in a book that Al Gore would rather burn than read.



The Really Inconvenient Truths

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Richard Ned Lebow

Janice Gross Stein

We All Lost the Cold War

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David C. Korten

Life after Capitalism

A noted social critic and the author of "When Corporations Rule the World" offers a practical, human-centered alternative to global capitalism run amok.

The Post-Corporate World

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Emily Anthes

Steve Mirsky

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Mind

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds). Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturization required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think faster) to why being bad feels so good (yes, there's a biochemical explanation). Whether you're a fan of Scientific American's wildly popular "60-Second Science" podcast or just curious about science, you're going to love the tingly way your synapses feel after enjoying the same bite-sized knowledge in The Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind.

Instant Egghead Guide: the Mind

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Bruce Bartlett

How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy

"In this book, Bartlett attacks the Bush Administration's economic performance root and branch, from the "stovepiping" of its policy process to the coercive tactics used to ram its policies through Congress, to the effects of the policies themselves. He is especially hard on Bush s enormous new Medicare entitlement and predicts that within a few years, Bush's tax cuts and unrestricted spending will produce an economic crisis that will require a major tax increase, probably in the form of a European-style VAT."--BOOK JACKET.

Impostor

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Christopher Booker

Richard North

Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?

Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming. >

The Real Global Warming Disaster

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Peter Schweizer

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy---And How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them

The economic crisis was caused not by unfettered capitalism, Schweizer argues in "Architects of Ruin," but by liberals who used the power of government to create a subprime mortgage bubble that has ravaged the global economy.

Architects of Ruin

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Robert Patterson

How Barack Obama Is Destroying the Military and Endangering Our Security

In Conduct Unbecoming, Lt. Col. Robert Patterson--New York Times bestselling author and former Senior Military Aide to President Clinton--exposes how President Barack Obama's national security policies are weakening our military and endangering America's safety. From underfunding and misusing the military to his "Apology Tour" across Europe and the Middle East, President Obama has made America more vulnerable with both our allies and our enemies. In Conduct Unbecoming, you'll discover:

How Obama is not listening to his generals' recommendations on Afghanistan
How Obama's first two acts as Commander-In-Chief weakened our national security and military
How Obama's feckless diplomatic efforts with other countries are severely threatening our national security

Shocking and controversial, Conduct Unbecoming reveals how Obama's disregard for the military and a strong foreign policy is exposing us to unprecedented risks in the 21st century.

Conduct Unbecoming

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Jim Powell

The Truth about Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy

What Hath TR Wrought? “I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But as historian Jim Powell shows in the refreshingly originalBully Boy, Roosevelt’s toothy grin, outsized personality, colossal energy, and fascinating life story have obscured what he actually did as president. And what Roosevelt did severely damaged the United States. Until now, no historian has thoroughly rebutted the adulation so widely accorded to TR. Powell digs beneath the surface to expose the harm Roosevelt did to the country in his own era. More important, he examines the lasting consequences of Roosevelt’s actions—the legacies of big government, expanded presidential power, and foreign interventionism that plague us today. Bully Boyreveals: • How Roosevelt, the celebrated “trust-buster,” actually promoted monopolies • How this self-proclaimed champion of conservation caused untold environmental destruction • How TR expanded presidential power and brought us big government • How he heralded in the era of government regulation, handicapping employers, destroying jobs, and harming consumers • How he established the dangerous precedent of pushing America into other people’s wars even when our own national interests aren’t at stake • How this crusader for “pure food” launched loony campaigns against margarine, corn syrup, and Coca-Cola • How Roosevelt inspired the campaign to enact a federal income tax that was supposedly a tax on the rich but became a people’s tax Bully Boyis both a groundbreaking look at a pivotal time in America’s history and a powerful explanation of how so many of our modern troubles began.

Bully Boy

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Dale W. Jorgenson

An International Comparison

This volume presents an international comparison of different types of capital from nine major industrialized countries and provides a detailed and quantitative account of tax policies for each respective country.

Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital

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A. Craig Copetas

The Real Story of Doing Business in the New Russia

Describes the bureaucratic squelching of a promising new private company in Moscow

Bear Hunting with the Politburo

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Walter G. Krivitsky

Walter Krivitsky was the first Soviet spymaster to defect to the West in 1937. He sought safety in the United States and found time to write his account of his defection and knowledge of Stalin's many crimes. A classic text of espionage history last published in 1939.

In Stalin's Secret Service

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Bill Gertz

How the People's Republic Targets America

The devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and America's first domestic bio-terrorism mail attacks have shifted America's attention and resources to the immediate threat of international terrorism. But we shouldn't be fooled. Since the publication of the hardcover edition of The China Threat in November of 2000, one thing remains very much the same: the People's Republic of China is the most serious long-term national security challenge to the United States. In fact, after the events of September 11, the China threat should seem all the more real, for Communist China is one of the most important backers of states that support international terrorism. —From the new introduction by the author

The China Threat

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Gordon G. Chang

North Korea Takes on the World

Examines the origins, history, international implications, extent, and potential solutions to the nuclear threat of the rogue state of North Korea and its tyrannical leader Kim Jong Il.

Nuclear Showdown

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Jed Babbin

Edward Timperlake

Why China Wants War with the United States

Will the U.S. go to war with China over Taiwan or oil? Yes-bestselling authors Ed Timperlake and Jed Babbin say Chinese aggression is virtually inevitable and in their new book, "Showdown", they address the threat of mainland China and Bush's promise to defend Taiwan - at any cost. "Showdown" offers indispensable strategies and tactics for the U.S. to respond to the Chinese military threat in this ongoing battle for democracy and freedom.

Showdown

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Andrew E. Slaby

Surviving the Delayed Effects of Trauma, Crisis, and Loss

Aftershock

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Wes Overton

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