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  • The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

    Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Paperback

    A New York Times Bestseller "This is a catalog [of costs] the Bush team never looked at. It's a catalog that they still don't want you to see."—James Galbraith

  • Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future

    Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor

    Revised and Updated

    Paperback

    With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and Pacific Islander populations, race is both the most dynamic facet of American identity and the defining point of American disunity.

  • New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution

    Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, Kathleen M. Sullivan

    Paperback

    Three prominent and highly visible writers confront the threats posed by current challenges to the American Constitution.

  • Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    Lester R. Brown

    Substantially Revised

    Paperback

    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post

  • Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

    Jessica Bruder

    Paperback

     “People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book.” — Rebecca Solnit