by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Thucydides Publisher Comments This revised edition of Richard Crawley's classic 1874 translation is enhanced with more than 100 maps, extensive annotations, brief biographies of important figures, and invaluable historical, political, and cultural background.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your Price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Marjane Satrapi
Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) Your Price $12.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Jane Mayer Publisher Comments A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the War on Terror. In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists... (read more) Your Price $27.50 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Jon Lee Anderson
Powells.com Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Primo Levi Publisher Comments Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. First published in 1947, this bestselling work now includes a new afterword--a fascinating, in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Alexandra Harney Publisher Comments A landmark eyewitness expos of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Powells.com Staff Pick Several months ago, I happened upon a copy of The Shadow of the Sun. From its opening pages, I understood why I'd been hearing such laudatory praise about Ryszard Kapuściński for years — here was some of the most astonishing travel writing... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) Your Price $18.75 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Elisa Burgos Debray Publisher Comments Illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman, I, Rigoberta Menchu recounts experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nicholas Tarling Publisher Comments Volume 2 discusses Southeast Asia??'s interaction with foreign countries during the period c. 1500 to c. 1800.... (read more) Your Price $39.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Thomas Cahill
Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your Price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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