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
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Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Metropolitan Books)
By Robert Dreyfuss
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Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Putnam)
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
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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
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The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (Columbia University Press)
By Richard Buillet
Excerpt: Islam’s Crisis of Authority
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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)
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The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future (John Wiley & Sons)
By Jeff Faux
Excerpt: NAFTA: Toward the Continental “We”
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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
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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
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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?
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The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (Bloomsbury Press)
By Taras Grescoe
Excerpt: Bolivia’s Coca Culture
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Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Stephen C. Smith
Excerpt: Poverty Traps and Global Development
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A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (Hill and Wang)
By Thomas Bender
Excerpt: China’s Silver Bullet
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Inside Knowledge: Streetwise in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan)
By Michael Backman
Excerpt: Asia’s Coffee Shop Revolution
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Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field (Princeton University Press)
By Ethan Kapstein
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The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (Cambridge University Press)
By Clifford Bob
Excerpt: The Marketing of Rebellion
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Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Harvard University Press)
By Alan McPherson
Excerpt: Americanism “Tangled” in Asia
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All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (Berrett-Koehler)
By Jared Bernstein
Excerpt: The United States Goes Yoyo
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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
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The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC – AD 2000 (Grove Press)
By Julia Lovell
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Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants (PublicAffairs)
By Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao
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Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan)
By James Bovard
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After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations (Polity Books)
By Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst
Excerpt: Queen Noor on Clashing Civilizations
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Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center (Free Press)
By Maria Ressa
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The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide (Nan A. Talese)
By Susan Nathan
Excerpt: Israel, Returning to the Homeland
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Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (W.W. Norton)
By Rachel DeWoskin
Excerpt: Foreign Babes in Beijing
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (Simon & Schuster)
By Eugene Linden
Excerpt: The Global Famine of 1877 and 1899
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Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don’t Know (Harvard Business School Press)
By David Apgar
Excerpt: Risk Intelligence and the Iraq War
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The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (Random House)
By Paul Kennedy
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The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton)
By Vali Nasr
Excerpt: Role Reversal in the Middle East
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The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life (PublicAffairs)
By Michael Lind
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Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country (Random House)
By Shirin Ebadi
Excerpt: Iran Awakening
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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
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The War of the World: 20th-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Penguin)
By Niall Ferguson
Excerpt: The War of the World
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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
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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
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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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