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The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are vorac...

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are vorac...

The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unpreced...

The definitive exposé of forced arbitration, the secret justice system that protects abusers, employers, and powerful corporations “Ballou is one o...

The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“brilliant” (Guardian)  In 1923, with...

"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was...

The "definitive" (Los Angeles Times), award-winning history of Cambodia and Pol Pot's rise to power, tracing the country's modern origins to the h...

The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players -- Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman -- and Herb...

The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search ...

The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search ...

Filled with “fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas” (NPR), a revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically...

Filled with “fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas” (NPR), a revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically...

Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "an...affecting morality tale," Jim Lehrer's devastating White Widow brings the reader to the brink of...

If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Bu...

If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Bu...

  A vivid new history of drag told through the life of the pioneering queen Doris Fish   In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised, and drag ...

Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each w...

Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American pr...

The combined value of all M&A deals from 1980 to the end of 2015 was almost 65 trillion -- bigger than the current annual world economy value o...

Those who believe Europe is weak, ineffectual and sclerotic are wrong. Europe might look frail and feeble against American military might, but that...

A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organization As business struggles to adapt to a rapidly c...