Author: Robert Kagan
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: dreams, history, return
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 030726923X
ISBN-13: 9780307269232

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology

Author: Bill Clinton
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 1008
Published: 2004-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0375414576
ISBN-13: 9780375414572

President Bill Clinton s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becomi

Authors:James D. Watson, Andrew Berry,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: life, secret, dna
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0375710078
ISBN-13: 9780375710070

Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond.Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics

Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: tattoo, dragon, girl
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0307269752
ISBN-13: 9780307269751

A sensation across Europe—millions of copies soldA spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pi

Author: Dexter Filki
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: war, forever
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0307266397
ISBN-13: 9780307266392

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing

Author: T.J. Stile
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: cornelius, vanderbilt, life, epic, tycoon, first
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2009-04-21
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0375415424
ISBN-13: 9780375415425

Book Description A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Vic

Authors:Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDu,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: women, worldwide, opportunity, oppression, turning, sky
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0307267148
ISBN-13: 9780307267146

Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our erathe oppression of women in the developing worldand tell us what we can do about it. An old Chinese proverb says Women hold up half the sky. Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstancesand some succeed against all odds. A Cambodian teenager is sold into sex slavery; a formerly illiterate woman become