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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael S. Gazzaniga · Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 314
Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization's... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world - and a roadmap for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard... |
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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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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
ROBERT F JR KENNEDY · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, thoughtful family history, the son and namesake of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shares memories of his turbulent childhood and the lessons that have shaped his enduring values.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the third of eleven children born to Bobby Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy,... |
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Conservatives Without Conscience
John W. Dean · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy John Deans last New York Times bestseller Worse Than Watergate The Secret Presidency of George W Bush offered the former White House insiders... |
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal... |
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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla · !t
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when... |
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Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War II
Nathaniel Lande · W W Norton
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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In this fascinating book, bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
LUKE HARDING · Vintage
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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With the recent indictments of Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, and George Papadopoulos, Russia expert Luke Harding lays out the most in-depth look to date at the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia. Beginning with a meeting with Christopher Steele, the man behind the shattering dossier... |
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Villains
Edward Klein · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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ALL OUT WAR! That's what the media, the Democrats, and the Never-Trump Republicans are waging on the democratically elected president of the United States. With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining forces in an attempted... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
Michelle Malkin · Mercury Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Conservative journalist Malkin provides an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. Learn how Paul Revere became America's... |
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