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Washington Rules_ America's Pat - Andrew Bacevich
From Publishers WeeklyU.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military... -
Wartime lies - Louis Begley
From Publishers WeeklyThe "lies" in this haunting, powerful Holocaust novel are not just the Nazis' monstrous racialist myths, but also the personal fictions adopted by their victi... -
Warrior Priest of Dmon-Li - Brian Pratt
Product DescriptionWhen James destroyed the Iron Mines at Sorna in a mammoth volcanic eruption after rescuing Miko from his enslavement, massive tsunamis wreaked havoc all along th... -
Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
From Publishers WeeklyThe concept of additional spatial dimensions is as far from intuitive as any idea can be. Indeed, although Harvard physicist Randall does a very nice job of e... -
War by other means_ an insider' - John Yoo
SUMMARY: John Yoo, the key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11, delivers a fascinating insider account of the War on Terror. While America reeled from the... -
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (graf); Larissa Vol
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently re.... -
War Torn - Andy McNab
Product DescriptionThe first in an exciting new series from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. Set both in Afghanistan and the UK, War Torn revolves around a... -
War - Sebastian Junger
SUMMARY: From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock."... -
Walkabout - James Vance Marshall
A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide.... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde...