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If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
Colonel Jack Jacobs (retired), Douglas Century
Berkley Hardcover
Berkley Hardcover
A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own serviceand ahead to Americas future. Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, 1st Lt. Jacobs took command...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at...
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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (Icons of America)
Steve Fraser
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark...
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The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition
Robert G. Hagstrom
Wiley
Wiley
Buffett is back . . . and better than before! A decade has passed since the book that introduced the world to Warren Buffett -- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom -- first appeared. That groundbreaking book spent 21 weeks on the New...
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Nathaniel C. Fick
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Vintage
Vintage
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone...
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Qanta A. Ahmed
Sourcebooks, Inc.
Sourcebooks, Inc.
"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr....
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