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March 2008
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The full-investigative report
behind the critically acclaimed
documentary
Best Documentary Feature Nominee, 80th Annual Academy Awards
Best Documentary of 2007, New York Film Critics Circle
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film of 2007, Los Angeles Critics Association
Special Jury Prize, Documentary, 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Culled from over 200 hours of footage collected for the film, No End in Sight is the
first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into chaos
Events
3/4 San Francisco, CA/City
Lights
3/12 New York, NY/92nd Street Y
3/13 Washington, DC/Center for American
Progress
www.noendinsightthebook.com
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Energy independence is an untenable
idea. Here’s
why…
“In Gusher of Lies Robert Bryce does political leaders around the world an
enormous favor by debunking in its entirety the myth that any major energy-consuming country with flat or declining energy supplies
can ever achieve the utopia called 'energy independence.' He also lucidly spells out exactly why America is the least likely country even
to come close.” —Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World
Economy
“[Bryce] carefully, gleefully throttles the meaningless rhetoric driving the cry for
energy independence.… High-order muckraking and an excellent primer for addressing the real question: How are we going to handle energy
interdependence?” —Kirkus Reviews
Events
3/11-12 Houston, World Affairs Council
3/17 Washington DC, AEI Institute
3/18 Washington DC, CATO Institute
3/27 Tulsa, Steve's Books
4/21 Boulder, Boulder Bookstore
4/23 Denver, World Affairs Council
5/4 Austin, BookPeople
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Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied before the rise of
the West. How will the West
respond?
“Once again, Kishore Mahbubani proves himself a global thought-leader. In
The New Asian Hemisphere, he combines a prodigious knowledge of history, a flair for lucid, often witty analysis and advocacy, and the
pragmatism of an experienced diplomat. The result is a set of prescriptions that leaders and citizens of the world in both hemispheres would do well
to heed.” —Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and author of The Great Experiment
“This is no dry scholarly tome. It is an anti-Western polemic, designed to
wake up Americans and Europeans by making them angry. In that goal it will certainly be successful.”
—Economist
“Mahbubani provides a compelling case for a Western strategy of power sharing
with Asia.” —Foreign Affairs
“There are lessons to be learned from The New Asian Hemisphere….
Aspiring presidential nominees and congressmen should take note.” —Wall Street Journal
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The great credit crash: how we got
here, and what’s
next.
“An absolutely excellent narrative of the horror that we have in the credit markets
right now. … It's a wonderful explanation of how it happened and why it's so rotten, and why it will take a long time to unwind."—Paul
Steiger, Editor in Chief of ProPublica
“The credit bubble is now unwinding. Charles Morris provides an excellent and timely
analysis of the origins, causes and turbo-charged financial engineering that allowed cheap and excessive debt to create a bloated financial
system."—Satyajit Das, author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns & Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
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A love letter to a remarkable,
troubled country and the dance that epitomizes
it
“…there will be no shortage of
readers putting his book down and hopping the next flight to Buenos Aires… An elegant, caustic travelogue sparkling with insight. ”
–Kirkus, starred review
Tango was the last thing on Brian Winter’s mind when, just for the hell of it, he
decided to move halfway across the world to Argentina upon graduating from college. Yet, after discovering (much too late) that his new home was
collapsing into a chaotic mess of political upheaval, he gave up any hope of finding a job and began looking for other ways to keep his tenuous
sanity. In a decaying bar called the Niño Bien, Brian became improbably smitten with an Argentine obsession: the tango.
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From the Winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and Founder of
the
International Longevity
Center
"Dr. Robert Butler brilliantly describes the challenges of an
aging population and offers provocative solutions that bust through myths hindering us from taking advantage of the Longevity Revolution."
—Dr. Mehmet Oz
“There is probably no one who knows more about aging than
Butler, who coined the term ‘ageism,’ and founded the federal National Institute on Aging and the first medical school department of
geriatrics.”—Publishers Weekly
Publicity Dates
3/6 Diane Rehm
4/2 Barbra Walters Longevity
Special
www.thelongevityrevolution.com
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"[Steidle's] work in Darfur lends this absolutely necessary book its compelling
immediacy and irrefutable authenticity, as a testament now and for years to come.”-Los Angeles
Times Book Review
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"Imagine my surprise when I realized soon after starting this book that the one person to whom I had
confided my deepest and most intimate thoughts was a raging alcoholic. I now know more about him than I do about me. A most unfortunate
development."—Larry David
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