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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
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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… |
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Beyond Fundamentalism
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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… |
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Evidence of suspicion
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Amitava Kumar |
Terrorism trials in United States and India. |
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Taking liberties
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Susan N. Herman |
"Since 9/11, the U.S. government has acted in a variety of ways--some obvious, some nearly invisible--to increase its surveillance and detention power over American citizens and residents. While mos… |
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Shadow war
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Richard Miniter |
Bin Laden's secret refuge -- Unheard thunder -- The 2002 plot to kill bush -- The new Afghanistan and the next battlefield? -- Terror at sea -- Bombs and ballots : the Madrid attack and the American … |
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Patriot acts
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Alia Malek,Karen Korematsu |
In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to … |
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The ghost writer
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Harris, Robert |
Retired British prime minister Adam Lang sets out to write a tell-all memoir of his life and political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the form… |
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Frontlines
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Sean Smith |
Working both independently and embedded with the U.S. and British militaries, Sean Smith has compiled a shocking and unique portrait of modern combat and its aftermath. These pictures take us right i… |
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A nation challenged
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Mitchel Levitas |
"A Nation Challenged records the full range of events from the moment of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the anthrax scare, the war in Afghanistan, the quick fall … |
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Captain America and the crusade against evil
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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… |
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Seal target Geronimo
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Chuck Pfarrer |
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." Thes… |
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The sheriff of Babylon
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Tom King |
"Baghdad, 2003. The War on Terror has been raging for two years. Iraq's capital city has been devastated, and without a police force to keep its citizens safe. In an effort to establish some semblanc… |
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Easy day for the dead
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Howard E. Wasdin |
"They started as soldiers. They became elite warriors. Now they are The Outcasts: The heroes the world will never know. Alex Brandenburg: Smart, steady, and facing a cross-roads in his life and care… |
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The Way of the World
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Ron Suskind |
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority u… |
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The One Percent Doctrine
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Ron Suskind |
What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, a… |
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Armed madhouse
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Greg Palast |
The "top journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches— hanging out the dirty underpa… |
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The 9/11 Commission report
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. |
Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Including the Executive Summary and the complete Notes Section. Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist … |
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Allah's fire
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Chuck Holton |
Two Dangerous Missions Collide with Explosive Results A suicide bomber blows up a hotel in Beirut, killing hundreds of people. A young American woman is kidnapped in Lebanon by terrorists. Connected… |
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How to win a cosmic war
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Reza Aslan |
A cosmic war is a religious war, not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other.… |
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The least worst place
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Karen J. Greenberg |
In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's prepa… |
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