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The Road to Big Big Brother One Man’s Struggle against the Surveillance Society

In this entertaining and highly revealing account of his attempt to dodge Britain’s 4.2 million CCTV cameras and other forms of surveillance, Ross Clark lays bare the astonishing amount of personal data which is hoarded by the state and by commercial organizations, and asks whom should we fear most: the government agencies who are spying on us – or the criminals who seem to prosper in the swirling fog of excessive data-collection.

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The Next Founders Voices of Democracy in the Middle East

The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed. Their lives revolve around a sense of mission, and while the angles from which they attack it are varied, this mission is the same for all seven: to make their countries more free and democratic.

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Don’t Tread on Me Anti-Americanism Abroad

Don’t Tread on Me is Carol Gould’s journey through the astonishing world of British and European anti-Americanism. From Yanks being spat on, to other acts, the level of US-bashing has evolved into something more than just Bush-hatred.

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The Rise of China Essays on the Future Competition

With its expanding economy and formidable military growth, China is positioning itself to challenge the United States as the greatest international power on the world stage.

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The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot

It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew – a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists.

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The Future of Marriage

With precision and passion, David Blankenhorn offers a bold new argument in the debate over same-sex marriage: that it would essentially deny all children, not just the children of same-sex couples, their birthright to their own mother and father.

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Mortal Follies Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity

Mortal Follies is the story of the Episcopal Church’s mad dash to catch up with a secular culture fond of self-expression and blissfully relaxed as to norms and truths. An Episcopal layman, William Murchison details how leaders of his church, starting in the late 1960s, looked over the culture of liberation, liked what they saw, and went skipping along with the shifting cultural mood.

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Indoctrination U. The Left's War Against Academic Freedom

In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses.

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The Pursuit of Liberty Can the Ideals that Made America Great Provide a Model for the World?

A collection of 10 essays that have appeared in The American Spectator over 2008. Authors include James Q. Wilson, Norman Podhoretz, Andrew Roberts, Victor Davis Hanson, James Kurth, Lawrence E. Harrison, Daniel Johnson, Fouad Ajami, Natan Sharansky, and Micahel Novak.

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The Corporation Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin

Felshtinsky’s, The Corporation, brings forth the truths of Putin’s reign and the team of FSB agents that serve him loyally. This book illustrates Putin as representing a completely new phenomenon, never before encountered by mankind.

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Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror

Blacklisting Myself details Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon’s odyssey from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to darling of the political right.

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Imagining the Future Science and American Democracy

From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science have raged in recent years – and, to the chagrin of most observers, have increasingly fallen into the familiar categories of America’s culture wars.

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Manifesto for Media Freedom

The rise of alternative media over the last 20 years has broken the liberal stranglehold over news and opinion outlets. Yet, instead of fighting back with ideas, today’s liberals quietly and relentlessly work to smother this political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations.

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Lessons from My Uncle James Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character

Fiercely committed to the ideal of a color-blind America, Ward Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions in California, Washington and Michigan. Yet, in Lessons from Uncle James, Connerly argues that even after we move beyond the color of our skin, we must still address the content of our character.

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