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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away
Bob Shacochis · Grove Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured." - Washington PostBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was finalist... |
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Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce · Polity; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration,... |
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar · Public Affairs
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist... |
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now! - and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results.In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Richard Shenkman · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics,... |
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred days, showing... |
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Robert Mugabe
Sue Onslow · Ohio University Press
Format: Book
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was an African leader who sharply divides opinion. As man and leader he has come to embody the contradictions of his country’s history and political culture: as a symbol of African liberation, he remains respected and revered by many on the African... |
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William Howard Taft.
Lapham Lewis H.; Blum John M. · Times Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts... |
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Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Dani Rodrik · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled... |
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