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Old Age

A Beginner's Guide

by Michael Kinsley ...

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing ... Read more

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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing
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Creative Capitalism

A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders

Edited by Michael Kinsley ...

Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist.Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big ... Read more

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Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist.Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big
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The Future is Now

America Confronts the New Genetics

by Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox0, Bill Frist1, Francis Fukuyama2, Robert P. George3, James K. Glassman4, Rep James Greenwood5, Sen Tom Harkin6, Sen Orrin G. Hatch7, Gertrude Himmelfarb8, Aldous Huxley9, Leon R. Kass0, Michael Kinsley1, Charles Krauthammer2, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich3, Joshua Lederberg4, Gilbert Meilaender5, H J. Muller6, National Bioethics Advisory Commission7, Edmund D. Pellegrino8, Rael9, Paul Ramsey0, William Saletan1, Wesley J. Smith2, James A. Thomson3, Laurence H. Tribe4, James D. Watson5, Michael D. West6, Ian Wilmut7, Adam Wolfson8 ...

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. ... Read more

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This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.
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Bombarded

How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy

by Cyrus Krohn, Tom Farmer, Tom Farmer, Michael Kinsley ...

A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable—and what can be done about it. - Kirkus ReviewsImagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device – yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.The coronavirus ... Read more

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A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable—and what can be done about it. - Kirkus ReviewsImagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device – yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.The coronavirus
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Please Don't Remain Calm

Provocations and Commentaries

by Michael Kinsley ...

A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our times.This selection of Michael Kinsley's trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).During this time Kinsley left Washington ... Read more

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A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our times.This selection of Michael Kinsley's trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).During this time Kinsley left Washington
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Rights vs. Public Safety after 9/11

America in the Age of Terrorism

by John D. Ashcroft, David Cole, John Derbyshire, Paul Glastris, Albert R. Hunt, Michael Kinsley, Douglas W. Kmiec, Mark Krikorian, Sen Patrick Leahy, Michael Lind, John McCain, Richard A. Posner, Steven V. Roberts, Bruce J. Schulman, Laurence H. Tribe, Alan Wolfe, C Robert Zelnick ...

Series series Rights & Responsibilities
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tension between civil rights and public safety has dominated public discourse. On issues ranging from racial profiling to military tribunals, Americans have had to ask whether it is possible for the United States to defend itself against terrorism without violating the values and principles that lie at the heart of its democratic order. In Rights vs. ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tension between civil rights and public safety has dominated public discourse. On issues ranging from racial profiling to military tribunals, Americans have had to ask whether it is possible for the United States to defend itself against terrorism without violating the values and principles that lie at the heart of its democratic order. In Rights vs.
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Bombarded

How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy

by Cyrus Krohn, Tom Farmer, Michael Kinsley ...

Narrated by Cyrus Krohn ...

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7 hours 45 min

A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable—and what can be done about it. - Kirkus ReviewsImagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device – yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.The coronavirus ... Read more

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A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable—and what can be done about it. - Kirkus ReviewsImagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device – yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.The coronavirus
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Old Age

A Beginner's Guide

by Michael Kinsley ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 38 min

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing ... Read more

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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing
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The Strangler Vine

by M.J. Carter ...

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10 hours 44 min

Set in the untamed wilds of the nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.India, 1837: William Avery is a young solider with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, ... Read more

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Set in the untamed wilds of the nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.India, 1837: William Avery is a young solider with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule,
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A Great Reckoning

A Novel

by Louise Penny ...

Series Book 12 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Instant New York Times bestseller:#1 in Hardcover Fiction#1 in E-book Fiction#1 in Combined Print and E-book Fiction"Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary....Miraculous."—The Washington Post"Artful...Powerful...Magical."- The New York Times Book Review"Superb"- People“A Great Rec... ... Read more

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Instant New York Times bestseller:#1 in Hardcover Fiction#1 in E-book Fiction#1 in Combined Print and E-book Fiction"Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary....Miraculous."—The Washington Post"Artful...Powerful...Magical."- The New York Times Book Review"Superb"- People“A Great Rec...
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The Long Way Home

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

by Louise Penny ...

Series Book 10 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a ... Read more

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A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a
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A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

by Amor Towles ...

**The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... Read more

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**The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by
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