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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo
Lakhdar Boumediene · Redwood Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir lived quiet, peaceful lives - working for humanitarian organizations, raising young children, filling weekend afternoons with pick-up soccer games and coffee with friends.In October 2001, along with four other Algerian nationals, they were arrested... |
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Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures
Iztok Prezelj · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country's history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro) , the work provides insight into a number of rarely discussed national intelligence agencies to allow for comparative... |
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
Henry M Paulson · Twelve, 2015.
Pages: 430
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER"DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. " Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson... |
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H Achen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth... |
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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis
Joe Dolce · Harperwave
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant.Pot. Weed. Grass.... |
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How Long Will Israel Survive?: The Threat From Within
Gregg Carlstrom · Oxford University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus in Israeli society: politics was split between left and right, but its people were broadly secular and liberal. Over the past decade,... |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 257
Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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The Fires of Spring: A Post Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East
Shelly Culbertson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab... |
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The Soul of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams · Yale University Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored... |
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Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Mary Ellen Hannibal · The Experiment
Pages: 423
Format: Print book
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In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert - a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental... |
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