Hoover Press imprint: 226 books

by Ziad Haider
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative.

Syria through Jihadist Eyes

A Perfect Enemy

by Nibras Kazimi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

With field notes accumulated in a Syrian environment not generally hospitable to research and inquiry, Nibras Kazimi provides a unique view of the Syrian regime and its base at home, filling a void in our understanding of the intelligence barons and soldiers who run that country. He offers a look...

Stalin's Loyal Executioner

People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940

by Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

Women of the Gulag

Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives

by Paul Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral...
by Paul R. Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

An enlightening look into the once-secret Soviet state and party archives that Western scholars first gained access to in the early 1990s. Paul Gregory breaks down a decades-old wall of secrecy to reveal intriguing new information on such subjects as Stalin's Great Terror, the day-to-day life of Gulag...

Perjury

The Hiss-Chambers Case

by Allen Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old...

The Best Teachers in the World

Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could

by John E. Chubb, Benno C. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels comparable to those of the best nations in the world through a radically new strategy for raising teacher quality. He asserts that we must attract and retain much higher caliber individuals in teaching, which we can accomplish by reducing...
by Kiron K. Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of...
by Alan W. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

The first in a series of volumes to discuss the history and development of the non-Russian nationalities in the Soviet Union. --"Professor Fisher's excellent book is brief but clear and succinct. It should be required reading for all students of Russian and European History."--Slavic Review
by Thomas H. Henriksen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

In its unprecedented position as sole world superpower, the United States must judiciously consider what course to take in foreign affairs. Foreign Policy for America's Twenty-first Century: Alternative Perspectivespresents six carefully crafted and bold approaches to this problem from some of the...

Freedom or Terror

Europe Faces Jihad

by Russell A. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

In his analysis of Europe's ambivalence toward jihadist terror and the spread of aggressive Islamism, with particular emphasis on the European responses—or lack thereof—to this violent anti-modernism, Russell A. Berman describes how some European countries opt for appeasement and apologetics,...

Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah

The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon

by Marius Deeb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

In a detailed sequel to Marius Deeb's authoritative Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process, he demonstrates how the coalition of Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah has used assassination, terrorism, and force against the peaceful and liberal democratic Cedar Revolution, trying to undermine...

Ever Wonder Why?

and Other Controversial Essays

by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --"This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues." --Mises Review
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