Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dream, vintage, american, reclaiming, hope, thoughts, audacity
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0307455874
ISBN-13: 9780307455871

The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America’s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.

Authors:Daniel Yergin, Thane Gustafson,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: world, means, russia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-02-14
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0679759220
ISBN-13: 9780679759225

Examines four possible scenarios for the future of Russia, looks at the internal forces shaping the new Russia, and discusses Russia’s future influence on the West. Reprint.

Author: Paul Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: powers, rise
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1989-01-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0679720197
ISBN-13: 9780679720195

About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.

Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: sun, raisin
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0679755330
ISBN-13: 9780679755333

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: complaint, portnoy
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-09-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679756450
ISBN-13: 9780679756453

Portnoy’s Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: ’Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient’s "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.’ (Spielvogel, O. "The Puz

Author: Robert Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: destiny, human, logic, nonzero
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-01-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0679758941
ISBN-13: 9780679758945

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright’s narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire b

Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, road, qaeda, tower, looming
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1400030846
ISBN-13: 9781400030842

National Book Award FinalistA Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearA gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follo