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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Marilyn Johnson · Harper
Format: Kindle Edition
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The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jonesthe archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps ancient landfills volcanic islands and other dirty places to reclaim history for us allPompeii... |
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Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
Rachel Aspden · Other Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Generation Revolution unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East. In 2003 Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old journalist. She found a country... |
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.In this... |
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Japan in the American Century
Kenneth B. Pyle · Belknap Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation... |
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Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
Michael G. Waltz · Potomac Books Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington DC and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather · Algonquin Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller - one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the making,... |
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
Marcel H van Herpen · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers the first systematic analysis of Putins two wars, placing the Second Chechen War and the War with Georgia of 2008 in their broader historical contexts. Drawing on extensive original Russian sources, Marcel H. Van Herpen analyzes in detail how Putins wars were prepared and conducted... |
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt · Picador
Format: Hardcover
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A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three... |
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
Ada Calhoun · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks -- the epicenter of American cool.St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation... |
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk... |
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An Unlikely Journey
Julia?n Castro · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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