 | The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.40 This is a marvelous journey into the realm of benevolence, justice and wisdom as experienced in ancient civilizations in China, India, the Israelites and the Greeks, long before the arrival of Christianity. It implied the rejection of violence, triumphalism and martial glory.
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 | Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition: The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail by Michael Baigent
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $12.98 What a fascinating journey this book takes you on, exploring the very beginnings of Christianity! Yes, exploring, but more than that: it stumbles unexpectedly into aspects that rock the foundations of accepted Christian theology. Have an open mind, if you want to enjoy this intriguing treatise.
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 | The Shipwreck of a Nation: Germany: An Inside View by H Peter Nennhaus
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $17.95 This is an upsetting autobiography of the author's youth in the Third Reich. The book describes the changing German mindset during that time as well as many other aspects of that conflict, which have remained secrets ever since.
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 | The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.00 Chalmers Johnson casts a critical look at the dangers of national self-adulation, militarism and imperialism, which he has seen in recent US history.
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 | Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.99 The author severely censures what he calls American economic and military hegemony across the globe.
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 | The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.88 This is a bold and perhaps politically incorrect investigation. But whether or not agreed to, anyone dealing with the Middle East Conflict must be aware of this challenging contention.
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 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.75 The unconventional origin of a remarkable man.
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 | Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
Buy new: $14.27 / Used from: $0.04 |
 | The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.99 This is a fabulous dissection of many details, personalities, and myths that were part of the mounting crises between the two world wars.
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 | The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $15.24 |
 | The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.84 This analysis examines current issues such as the Iraq War, terrorism, globalization, global migrations, the imperfections of national security, China's and India's ascendence and above all recent failures of US policies.
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 | Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Buy new: $10.78 / Used from: $2.50 |
 | The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.99 An epochal analysis of the future of wars - between civilizations rather than nations - and possible ways of preventing them, along with insights into non-western traditions and cultures.
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 | A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
Buy new: $19.13 / Used from: $8.98 If you are looking for a detailed and comprehensive summary of the historical events characterizing modern Palestine and the State of Israel, and don't mind the unforgiving self-criticism of the Israeli author, then read this book.
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 | The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition) by Fareed Zakaria
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.93 This book, at long last, questions the universal goodness of liberal democracy, points to its weaknesses and failures, and searches for methods of making it more foolproof.
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 | FDR by Jean Edward Smith
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.77 |
 | The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom
Buy new: $20.42 / Used from: $4.23 |
 | Death by Government by R. J. Rummel
Buy new: $26.73 / Used from: $24.95 This is a shocking exploration of historical events of genocide and mass atrocity since 1900 in almost all continents. They are potentially possible in any country and most do so for allegedly justifiable reasons.
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 | The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (Critical Issue) by Betty Wood
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $2.57 The book investigates the magnitude and history of black slavery as well as its underlying psychological, moral and Christian aspects.
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 | African American Voices: The Life Cycle Of Slavery by Steven Mintz
Buy used from: $0.75 Slavery has existed since antiquity and persists today. The book focuses on the history and statistics of slavery conducted by Europeans and American.
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| The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson
Buy used from: $24.94 The appalling history of the fate of the American Indian since the arrival of the Europeans. Advice: Brace yourself!
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 | Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story Of Nazi Racial Laws And Men Of Jewish Descent In The German Military (Modern War Studies) by Bryan Mark Rigg
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.95 What a stunning discovery! Thousands of Jewish or part-Jewish German men served in the Wehrmacht in all ranks! And they did not know about the Holocaust until the war was over.
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