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How Life Imitates Chess
Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Garry Kasparov
ISBN: 9781596913882
$16.00 Paperback 240pp, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"
Published October 2008
“One of the most formidable brains of our era….fast-talking, exuberant, indigant one moment and laughing sardonically the next — Kasparov clearly relishes the fight.”—Washington Post
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Overtreated
Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee
ISBN: 9781582345796
$16.00 Paperback 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"
Published October 2008
“My choice for the economics book of the year…it’s the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood.”
—David Leonhardt, New York Times
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A Nuclear Family Vacation
Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge
ISBN: 9781596913783
$24.99 Hardcover 256 pp, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4"
Published June 2008
Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry.
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Bottlemania
How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Elizabeth Royte
ISBN: 9781596913714
$24.99 Hardcover 288 pp, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"
Published June 2008
An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water.
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