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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE · Verso
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides... |
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The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
Michael Kulikowski · Harvard University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The Triumph of Empire takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Michael Kulikowski's history begins with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable... |
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Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Jay Nordlinger · Encounter Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst... |
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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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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild · New Press
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart, respectful and compelling... |
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Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online
Bailey Shoemaker Richards · Potomac Books
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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Cybersexism is rampant and can exact an astonishingly high cost. In some cases, the final result is suicide. Bullying, stalking, and trolling are just the beginning. Extreme examples such as GamerGate get publicized, but otherwise the online abuse of women is largely underreported. Haters... |
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss · Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook Year of Books SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Entertainment... |
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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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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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson... |
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga Taylor · Haymarket Books
Pages: 270
Format: Print book
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The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America.... |
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass · Penguin Press
Pages: 339
Format: Print book
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An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign RelationsThings fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since... |
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas
Edward Klein · Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein... |
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Matthew Karp · Harvard University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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