|
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 751
Format: Print book
|
|
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The pivot : the future of American statecraft in Asia
Kurt M Campbell · Twelve
Pages: 399
Format: Print book
|
|
From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia. There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State
David Patrikarakos · I. B. Tauris
Format: Book
|
|
The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with Iran now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. There is little real understanding of Iran's nuclear... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know®
P.W. Singer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
Alec Ash · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"One of the best [books] I've read about the individuals who make up a country that is all too often regarded as a monolith." - Jonathan Fenby, Financial TimesIf China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection Of Library Humor
Roz Warren · HumorOutcasts Press
Pages: 126
Format: Print book
|
|
There are eight million stories at your local public library -- and not all of them are in the books! Join humorist Roz Warren ("the world's funniest librarian") for a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at library life. What really goes on behind the circulation desk? And in the stacks?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties
Ben Carson · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
|
|
Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why I ve beenspeaking out on controversial issues forthe last few years. They say I ve never heldpolitical office. I m not a constitutional scholar. I m not even a lawyer. All I can sayto that is Guilty as charged. It s true that I ve never voted for a budget... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
|
|
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
