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Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens...

Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, o...

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This eye-opening dispatch on the culture war traces the dangerous influence of overreaching courts around the world.Buy this book

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From Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Villa and Carolina Moon, comes a classic tale — a searing novel of twisted passion and lethal cunning, available in hardcove...

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It remains the U.S. Marine Corps.' bloodiest battle. Fifty years later, it is A.P. photographer Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer-winning photo of Marines raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi that kee...

A myth-shattering book that explains why energy is not scarce, why the price of energy doesn't matter very much, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. The sheer volume of talk ...

Welcome to turn-of-the-century Paris! Ball gowns swirl, champagne corks pop, and precious jewels sparkle all around the city--and in the amethyst eyes of one particular young man...Meet Florian, th...

A National Public Radio reporter covering the last stand of the Taliban in their home base of Kandahar in Afghanistan's southern borderland, Sarah Chayes became deeply immersed in the unfolding dra...

Giant man-eating eyeballs from another dimension, mad scientists, rampaging killer robots and the Ghost of Christmas Past - nothing out of the ordinary in the world of The Goon. Come take a traipse...

Benjamin Franklin is one of the best known and least understood figures in the history of eighteenth-century political thought. Alan Houston clarifies our understanding of his thought by making ava...

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