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Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia
Victor D Cha · Princeton University Press
Pages: 330
Format: Print book
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While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently... |
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
David Banks · Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public... |
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A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy
Joyce P. Kaufman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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Now in a fully updated edition that goes through the Obama administration and the election of Donald Trump, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding to the present. Joyce P. Kaufman provides students... |
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Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States
P. J. Crowley · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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Over the past quarter century, four consecutive American presidents - two Democrat, two Republican - have spent more time, diplomatic capital, and military resources on Iraq than any other country in the world. Much as the Vietnam syndrome cast a long shadow over American security policy... |
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A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast
Marcia Haag · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover
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A Listening Wind, a collection of translated original texts and commentary edited by Marcia Haag, highlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the U.S. Southeast. A whole range of genres and selected texts represent language groups of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw,... |
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The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of Thirteen Months in Captivity
Puk Damsgard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Danish photographer Daniel Rye was taken capture by the Islamic State for thirteen months -- this is his story. In May 2013, Daniel Rye traveled to Syria for a planned three-day trip to photograph the effects of the war on civilians. While there, he was captured by ISIS and held for a nightmarish... |
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City Gate, Open Up
Beidao · New Directions
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China's legendary poet Bei Dao In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. "My city that once was had vanished,"... |
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Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case
Monda Halpern · McGill-Queens University Press
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
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By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to "settle the thing." Words flew, a brawl... |
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Dear White People
Justin Simien · Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (Indiewire) film of the same name, which “heralds a fresh and funny new voice” (Variety).Right out of college, Justin... |
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Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Motoe Sasaki · Cornell University Press
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
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In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · William Morrow
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National... |
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
James Braxton Peterson · For Beginners
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States.Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison... |
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The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike
John Desantis · History Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violence erupted due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations. Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor... |
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