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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped... |
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Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir
Maryse Wolinski · 37 Ink
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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An elegant, deeply felt memoir from Maryse Wolinski - journalist and widow of the late cartoonist Georges Wolinski, who died in the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - that is both a beautiful tribute to her late husband and a rallying call to action."Darling,... |
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Complete Book of Presidential Trivia, The
J Stephen Lang · Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
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This entertaining collection of questions and answers about America's leaders provides hours of brain-teasing fun for readers. Every conceivable subject is included, from scandals, pre-White House life, campaigns, military matters, and the cabinets, to notable quotes and notable women... |
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The Origins of ISIS: The Collapse of Nations and Revolution in the Middle East
Simon Mabon · I.B.Tauris
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains... |
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Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
RICHARD MCGREGOR · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s - and the potential crisis that awaits themRichard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished... |
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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky · Times Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most... |
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Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death
Olivier Rolin · Counterpoint
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style "Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." -- Nature In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu · Vintage
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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Caged Eyes: An Air Force Cadet's Story of Rape and Resilience
Lynn K Hall · Beacon Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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An insider's account of misogyny and rape in the US military and her extraordinary path to recovery and activismIn one of the worst scandals ever faced by the military, in 2003, six women went public with their accounts of sexual assault and harassment at the Air Force Academy. The relentless... |
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The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office
Jeremi Suri · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Why have recent presidents failed to bring promised change?In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts the rise and fall of the American presidency, from the limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers to its current status as the most powerful job in the world.... |
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