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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Pretext for War	James Bamford	The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date--a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America's intelligence …	OL117554W
Kill Bin Laden	Dalton Fury	The firsthand account by a commander of the Army's Tier 1 counter terrorist unit Delta Force on the operation in the mountains of Tora Bora near the Pakistan border. Fury recounts the details of the …	OL11963311W
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?	Morgan Spurlock	Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even high…	OL12282739W
Beyond Fundamentalism	Reza Aslan	The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 200…	OL14937140W
Watching the world change	Friend, David	Tells the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand t…	OL15833907W
Dark side	Jane Mayer	In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were m…	OL15835654W
They just don't get it	Hunt, David Colonel	Explains what the United States must do to win the war on terror, describing what must be done at every level, from individual citizens, to government officials, to military force, in order to meet t…	OL15856951W
Unconquerable nation	Brian Michael Jenkins	The author presents a clear-sighted and sobering analysis of where we are today in the struggle against terrorism. Jenkins, an internationally renowned authority on terrorism, distills the jihadists'…	OL15857416W
Ghost plane	Stephen Grey	Investigative journalist Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. He takes an unfl…	OL16028511W
Payment for environmental services in agricultural landscapes	Leslie Lipper	In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing …	OL16278306W
More Terrible Than Death	Robin Kirk	"The estimated 6 million Americans who use cocaine and heroin spend at least $46 billion a year on the drugs. For the past two decades, the United States government has spent more than $7 billion a y…	OL1646105W
Terror and democracy in West Germany	Karrin Hanshew	"In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After…	OL16557875W
Geo-engineering climate change	Brian E. Launder	"This book is the first to present a detailed and critical appraisal of the geo-scale engineering interventions that have been proposed as potential measures to counter the devastation of run-away gl…	OL16992331W
Captain America and the crusade against evil	John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett	"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o…	OL1945166W
America's secret war	George Friedman	THE STARTLING TRUTH BEHIND AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND WAR EFFORT IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND BEYOND--FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY DUBBED BY BARRON'S AS "THE SHADOW CIA"Dubbed by Barron's as "The S…	OL2744472W
Einschlägig bekannt	Dominique Manotti	Null Toleranz für den>>Pöbel<<der Vorstädte lautet die Direktive des Innenministers. Markige Worte angesichts seiner geplanten Präsidentschaftskandidatur. Jetzt müssen Beweise her, dass die Kriminali…	OL28761723W
The End of Poverty	Jeffrey Sachs	A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizensAmong the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty dist…	OL3849705W
Jobs for the Poor	Timothy J. Bartik	"Even as the United States enjoys a booming economy and historically low levels of unemployment, millions of Americans remain out of work or underemployed, and joblessness continues to plague many ur…	OL4102778W
The exception to the rulers	Amy Goodman	She reduced Sally Jesse Rafael to tears. Charlie Rose was red in the face after her comments. Bill Clinton called her “hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.” Newt Gingrich said to her, “You’re …	OL5724621W
Deliver Us from Evil	Sean Hannity	Sean Hannity's first blockbuster book, the New York Times bestseller Let Freedom Ring, cemented his place as the freshest and most compelling conservative voice in the country. As the host of the phe…	OL5854952W