2006 Selections
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Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (Harvard University Press)
By James C. McCann
Excerpt: Maize, Africa’s New World Crop

Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Metropolitan Books)
By Robert Dreyfuss

Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Putnam)
By Thomas P.M. Barnett

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton)
By Lester Brown
Excerpt: How Food and Fuel Compete for Land

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (Columbia University Press)
By Richard Buillet
Excerpt: Islam’s Crisis of Authority

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right (Times Books)
By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
Excerpt: Muslims in America (and Europe)

The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future (John Wiley & Sons)
By Jeff Faux
Excerpt: NAFTA: Toward the Continental “We”

What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust (University of Virginia Press)
By Roma and Doron Ben-Atar
Excerpt: A Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust: A Mother’s Memory

The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin)
By William Easterly
Excerpt: Haiti’s Eternal Crisis

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons)
By Matthew Simmons
Excerpt: Saudi Arabia: An Oil Bust?

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (Bloomsbury Press)
By Taras Grescoe
Excerpt: Bolivia’s Coca Culture

Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Stephen C. Smith
Excerpt: Poverty Traps and Global Development

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (Hill and Wang)
By Thomas Bender
Excerpt: China’s Silver Bullet

Inside Knowledge: Streetwise in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Michael Backman
Excerpt: Asia’s Coffee Shop Revolution

Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field (Princeton University Press)
By Ethan Kapstein

The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (Cambridge University Press)
By Clifford Bob
Excerpt: The Marketing of Rebellion

Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Harvard University Press)
By Alan McPherson
Excerpt: Americanism “Tangled” in Asia

All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (Berrett-Koehler)
By Jared Bernstein
Excerpt: The United States Goes Yoyo

Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun (University of California Press)
By Ray Villard and Lynette Cook
Excerpt: Earth’s Place in the Universe

The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC – AD 2000 (Grove Press)
By Julia Lovell

Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants (PublicAffairs)
By Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao

Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan)
By James Bovard

After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations (Polity Books)
By Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst
Excerpt: Queen Noor on Clashing Civilizations

Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center (Free Press)
By Maria Ressa

The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide (Nan A. Talese)
By Susan Nathan
Excerpt: Israel, Returning to the Homeland

Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (W.W. Norton)
By Rachel DeWoskin
Excerpt: Foreign Babes in Beijing

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (Simon & Schuster)
By Eugene Linden
Excerpt: The Global Famine of 1877 and 1899

Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don’t Know (Harvard Business School Press)
By David Apgar
Excerpt: Risk Intelligence and the Iraq War

The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (Random House)
By Paul Kennedy

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton)
By Vali Nasr
Excerpt: Role Reversal in the Middle East

The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life (PublicAffairs)
By Michael Lind

Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country (Random House)
By Shirin Ebadi
Excerpt: Iran Awakening

Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (Pantheon)
By Anatol Lieven and John C. Hulsman
Excerpt: The Conflict in Iraq and U.S. Elites

The War of the World: 20th-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Penguin)
By Niall Ferguson
Excerpt: The War of the World

Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Robert Kagan
Excerpt: Puritans and Imperialism

Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America (Thomas Dunne Books)
By Byron Dorgan
Excerpt: The Democrats’ View on World Trade

China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World (University of Washington Press)
By John W. Garver
Excerpt: Twenty Centuries of Friendly Cooperation: The Sino-Iranian Relationship
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