2007 Selections
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The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients (The New Press)
By Sonia Shah

The Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy (Free Press)
By Will Hutton
Excerpt: The End of the American Ideal?

Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (Times Books)
By Ray Takeyh
Excerpt: Britain’s Dark Shadow Over Iran

In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Doubleday)
By Edward Luce
Excerpt: In Spite of the Gods

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press)
By Joseph Cirincione
Excerpt: Touring the Nuclear World

Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam and the Future of Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press)
By Zachary Shore
Excerpt: Breeding Bin Ladens

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror (Princeton University Press)
By Ian Shapiro
Excerpt: Containing Iran

Journey Into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (Brookings Institution Press)
By Akbar Ahmed
Excerpt: Women and the Birth of Islam

Unbowed: A Memoir (Anchor)
By Wangari Maathai

Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World (Yale University Press)
By Josh Kurlantzick

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy (Gotham Books)
By Sasha Issenberg
Excerpt: The Sushi Economy

Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century (Century Foundation Press)
By Morton H. Halperin (ed.)
Excerpt: Exploring American Exceptionalism

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press)
By Carl J. Schramm and Robert E. Litan
Excerpt: The U.S. and the Brave New World

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (Random House)
By Jean Pfaelzer
Excerpt: Dog Tags for Chinese Immigrants

Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter (Harvard Business Review Press)
By Pankaj Ghemawat
Excerpt: It’s a Semiglobalized World

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press)
By Paul Collier
Excerpt: Falling Behind: The Bottom Billion

Travels With Herodotus (Alfred A. Knopf)
By Ryszard Kapuscinski

Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents (Overlook Press)
By Robert Irwin
Excerpt: The Rise of Travel Literature

Savage Century: Back to Barbarism (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
By Thérèse Delpech
Excerpt: 1905: The Birth of Modernity
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