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The Joint Ventured Nation: Why America Needs a New Foreign Policy
Edward Goldberg · W W Norton
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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Moving America from the Troubled Superpower to the Indispensable PartnerWhat a ride the world has been on over the last thirty years: the fall of the Berlin Wall, China's reemergence as a major power, the wishful creation of the BRICS, technological innovations, 9/11, conflicts in Iraq,... |
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Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America's Healthcare Promise
Prabhjot Singh · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances... |
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The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy
Dante Paradiso · Beaufort Books
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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In a distant war, in a city under siege, U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney faced a terrible choice: abandon the mission or risk the lives of his team to give diplomacy a last chance... In 2003, Liberia was one of the most dangerous and isolated countries in the world. President Charles Taylor,... |
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The Netanyahu Years
BEN CASPIT · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit... |
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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
Michael Kazin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 378
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War.This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history's most destructive wars and then were hounded by the government when they refused to back... |
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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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American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Goldie Blumenstyk · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
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American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby... |
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The State and Federal Courts: A Complete Guide to History, Powers, and Controversy
Christopher P Banks · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 513
Format: Hardcover
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How does the American judiciary impact the development of legal and social policies in the United States? How are the state and federal court systems constructed? This book answers these questions and many others regarding politics, the U.S. courts, and society.* Presents a broad and detailed... |
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Dov Waxman · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than... |
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