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Jfk and Art
This volume, a comprehensive study of how the myth and mystique of the Camelot years coincided with the rise of pop art, reveals the pervasive influence that the Kennedy presidency...
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
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A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of...
The Idea of India
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When in 1948 the British departed from their most prized imperial possession, handing over the Indian state they created in 1947 to a small nationalist elite led by Nehru, the...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Boris Yeltsin: From Bolshevik to Democrat
This book examines Yeltsin's past, measuring his own autobiographical recollections against the record. It illuminates his rise as a political maverick who provokes contradictory feelings among Russians and foreigners alike....
The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, And Entertainment
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...
Rumsfeld
A behind-the-scenes portrait of the Secretary of Defense chronicles his achievements at the Pentagon, in the War on Terror, and during the military campaign against Iraq, noting his relationships with...
The Wizard of the Kremlin
THE TIMES BESTSELLER 'A riveting peek into how power actually works in Russia' David McCloskey, author of Moscow X 'A great novel, casting light on the creatures that crawl and...
Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series
'Iain Dale introduces Margaret Thatcher to a new generation and intelligently explodes some of the myths about her' Simon Heffer Margaret Thatcher was a woman of tremendous paradoxes: a conviction...
Hawke PM: The making of a legend
The companion volume to YOUNG HAWKE: the making of a larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEY Bob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians...
Gough Whitlam: the definitive and most up-to-date biography from
A commanding biography of one of Australia's greatest and most visionary prime minsters by an acclaimed political journalist and author. There has been no one like Gough Whitlam in public...
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Analyzing European civilization's legacy from its inception, the text assesses historical accounts of the West and argues that while often attacked as a cover for exploitation, its legitimacy/unity appears to...
The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, And Entertainment
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...
I Wish Someone Had Told Me . . .: The Best Advice for Building a Great
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Terrific advice, insightful stories, and powerful life lessons curated by Dana Perino the #1 New York Times bestselling author of And the Good News...
You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred,
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What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
' Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES 'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping'...
Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question
What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey? In this shining,...
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink
The New Yorker 's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory...
Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990
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Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and...
A Brief History of Equality
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of...
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed...
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer
The definitive story of a top Chinese politician's ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party. When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs' Monument...
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending...
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...
George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other
A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state-our foremost...
Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
An acclaimed economist's observations on four years of events that have shaped the world In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde , renowned...
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia
An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and...
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...
Demosthenes: Democracy's Defender
The tragic story of ancient Greece's last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of...
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history "Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish."-Keith...
Empathy in Politics and Leadership: The Key to Transforming Our World
A timely account of empathy, politics, and leadership, showing how greater understanding and connection can foster trust, community, and innovation Empathy has become a cliche of contemporary politics, often espoused...
Why Marx Was Right
One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."-Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century "[Eagleton is] a...
Molehunt
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The book titled Molehunt by the author Nigel West. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's struggle for
She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican
"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern history of the right...We just...
The Coming War with Japan
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The book titled The Coming War with Japan by the author George Friedman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Outsider in the White House
Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that...
The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media
An unnerving look at right-wing media and the affect it has on us all-on every family level After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News,...
The Religion of American Greatness - What's Wrong with Christian
ECPA Top Shelf Award Winner Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have...
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture , Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of...
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family...
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year "Excellent...A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China's future explored during a...
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this...
Freedom: An Unruly History
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year "Ambitious and impressive At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain,...
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life
A young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key to happiness is not goal-driven striving but forging a life that integrates self-possession, friendship, and engagement...
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican
The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The...
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources...