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Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War
Peter Conradi · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
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"Balanced and timely ... a smooth narrative that provides welcome context for Russia's recent revanchist behavior and insight into prospects for ongoing U.S.-Russian relations." -- ★Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Meticulously lays out the record, from Mikhail... |
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The Ideas Industry
DANIEL DREZNER · OXFORD University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind... |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Considering this question, two of our most celebrated political scientists trace the shocking ways in which governments have mobilized armies since... |
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
MARK LILLA · Harper
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the country's most admired political thinkers, an urgent wake-up call to American liberals to turn from the divisive politics of identity and develop a vision of our future that can persuade all citizens that they share a common destiny. In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark... |
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Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration
J M N Jeffries · Olive Branch Pr
Pages: 758
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary.First published by Longman Green, London, this book had a short life; the entire stock and the publisher's premises were destroyed by the German blitz in 1941. The Balfour... |
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The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
John Dower · Haymarket Books
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
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World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious... |
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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
Sean Sherman · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Here is real food - our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his breakout... |
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Erling Hoh · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong's prisonsMao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 651
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Barry Friedman · Farrar
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been erodedIn June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over... |
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield · Verso
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our livesEverywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider... |
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Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
John Bicknell · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate.... |
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