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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor · University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility... |
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The Conservative Case for Trump
Phyllis Schlafly · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice Not An Echo (over 3 million copies sold) upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans... |
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Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power
Bob Ingle · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years... |
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Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus
Jonathan A Allan · University of Regina Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book |
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In a playful, yet scholarly romp through "low" and "high" culture, Jonathan Allan asks why--since we all have one and use it every day--do we squirm at the mere mention of the anus? How is it that Kim Kardashian's derriere can break the internet, Pippa Middleton's... |
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Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War
Orde F Kittrie · Oxford University Press, 2016.
Pages: 504
Format: Print book |
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International military interventions endanger soldier and civilian lives, can be financially costly, and risk spiraling out of control. One incident which exemplified the risks involved a US and UK wish to stop a Russian ship from delivering helicopter gunships to the Assad regime in Syria... |
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The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
Constantine Pleshakov · Yale University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book |
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How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first... |
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What America Needs: The Case for Trump
Jeffrey Lord · Regnery Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord makes a convincing case that Donald Trump - the straight-talking billionaire businessman-turned-candidate - is exactly the man America needs as our president right now. |
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Slippery slope : europe's troubled future
Giles Merritt · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery... |
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Erwin Chemerinsky · Yale University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book |
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A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:... |
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The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
Marc Lynch · Public Affairs
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Marc Lynch's last book, The Arab Uprising, described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible. But Lynch saw dark signs on the horizon, especially in Syria. That book ended with the hope that... |
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Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West
Walter Laqueur · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions.... |
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Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
Edmund S. Phelps · Princeton University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book |
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In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 338
Format: Print book |
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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