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Deep Thinking

Garry Kasparov

• Paperback | Engels
• Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a ne... Lees meer

The Revenge of Analog

David Sax

• E-book | Engels
• One of Michiko Kakutani's ( New York Times ) top ten books of 2016 A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back i... Lees meer

Slave

Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through... Lees meer

Murdoch's World (Intl PB Ed)

David Folkenflik

• Paperback | Engels
• In July 2012 Rupert Murdoch experienced what he called "the most humbled day of my life" (he misspoke - he meant "humbling") when he was testifying in... Lees meer

A Secret Life

Benjamin Weiser

• Paperback | Engels
• In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human in... Lees meer

American Overdose

Chris McGreal

• Hardcover | Engels
• A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions The opioid epidemic has been desc... Lees meer

Agent M

Henry Hemming

• Paperback | Engels
• The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight--the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M. Maxwell Knight was p... Lees meer

Fight for Liberty

• Paperback | Engels
• Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy -- reinvigor... Lees meer

American Crucifixion

Alex Beam

• Paperback | Engels
• On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw ... Lees meer

The Great Railroad Revolution

Christian Wolmar

• Paperback | Engels
• America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revoluti... Lees meer

Radical Abundance

K. Eric Drexler

• E-book | Engels
• K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance , he shows how rapid... Lees meer

Churchill by Himself

Richard Langworth

• Paperback | Engels
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the most inspiring leaders of the twentieth century, and one of its greatest wits. War reporter, Chancellor o... Lees meer

Peter Jennings

Kate Darnton, Kayce Jennings, Lynn Sherr

• Paperback | Engels
• For many Americans, Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. In this oral biography, readers witness Jen... Lees meer

The Match King

Frank Partnoy

• Paperback | Engels
• At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchs... Lees meer

Rise of the Warrior Cop

Radley Balko

• E-book | Engels
• This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story thro... Lees meer

The Holocaust

Laurence Rees

• E-book | Engels
• n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an ... Lees meer

Moscow, December 25, 1991

Conor O'Clery

• E-book | Engels
• The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had differen... Lees meer

Tomorrow's Capitalist

Alan Murray, Catherine Whitney

• E-book | Engels
• In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic ... Lees meer

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

• E-book | Engels
• The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsible. The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of m... Lees meer

Be Strong and of Good Courage

Dennis Ross, David Makovsky

• E-book | Engels
• Modern Israel's founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation--now Israel needs their example more than e... Lees meer

Common Nonsense

Andy Rooney

• E-book | Engels
• "Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to... Lees meer

The Theft of a Decade

Joseph C. Sternberg

• E-book | Engels
• A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-- how the Baby Boomers have stolen the mill... Lees meer

No Choice

Becca Andrews

• E-book | Engels
• An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose The piece... Lees meer

Scream

Margee Kerr

• Paperback | Engels
• Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart. No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at one of America's scari... Lees meer