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The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad · Basic Books
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming... |
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North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence
Sung Chull Kim · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be close,... |
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Table Talk: Building Democracy One Meal at a Time
Janet A Flammang · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Etiquette books insist that we never discuss politics during a meal. In Table Talk , Janet A. Flammang offers a polite rebuttal, presenting vivid firsthand accounts of people's lives at the table to show how mealtimes can teach us the conversational give-and-take foundational to democracy.... |
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Human Rights in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa.... |
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Absinthe: A Thriller
GUIDO EECKHAUT GUIDO EECKHAUT · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a Hercule Poirot Award, a fast-paced international crime thriller about Russian infiltration in the financial world.Walter Eekhaut, a veteran of the Belgian police force who has a problem with authority, is dispatched to Amsterdam to aid the Dutch security service in investigating... |
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Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
Rogers Brubaker · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 630
Format: Library Binding
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism
Mark Bauerlein · Templeton Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1987, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America - and Americans - unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed... |
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The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy
Valerie M. Hudson · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy,... |
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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Gary J Dorrien · Yale University Press
Pages: 610
Format: Hardcover
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This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's history. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded... |
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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Mohsin Hamid · Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of his generations most inventive and gifted writers The New York Times, intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and the war on terror. Mohsin Hamids brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller,... |
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The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents
Mark Perry · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadershipThe Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry investigates... |
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The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Genocide
AZEEM IBRAHIM · Hurst
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have... |
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