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Soviet Tragedy

A History of Socialism in Russia

by Martin Malia
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

"The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the...
by Kay Redfield Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1996

The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding...
by John Ralston Saul
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling “corporatist” structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks.
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim’s work into context for the twenty-first century...

Running as a Woman

Gender and Power in American Politics

by Linda Witt, Glenna Matthews, Karen M. Paget
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995

Women have become a strong force in electoral politics, as candidates, office holders, and vocal constituents. In Running as a Woman, Linda Witt, Karen Paget, and Glenna Matthews explore the significant issues for women in public life: their marital status, the threat of sexual innuendo, what’s...
by Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

Now fully updated and totally revised, this highly regarded classic remains the most comprehensive study available of America’s military history. Called “the preeminent survey of American military history” by Russell F. Weigley, America’s foremost military historian, For the Common...

Woman of Valor

Clara Barton and the Civil War

by Stephen B. Oates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995

When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of...

Between War and Peace

How America Ends Its Wars

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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

An emperor bows abjectly before his conquerors on the deck of a battleship. As smoke yet rises from a bloody battlefield, a dejected general proffers his sword to his victorious opponent. Frock-coated ministers exchange red leather–bound treaty books in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. These are...

David and Solomon

In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition

by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007

The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible...

Big Girls Don't Cry

The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

by Rebecca Traister
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010

Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what...
by Pervez Musharraf
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006

According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama...

Reagan's Path to Victory

The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings

by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004

In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself. When drafts...

Presidential Leadership

Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House

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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2004

What makes a president great? Two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall Street Journal and the Federalist Society, with the help of a wide array of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders, tackle this question in Presidential Leadership, the definitive ranking of our nation's...

A Fierce Discontent

The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

by Michael McGerr
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking;...
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