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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Over the past several years, while visible protests against the World Bank and the I.M.F. made front-page news, there has been a growing field of scholarship that looks at the role of globalization for national and international state identities. The first truism of globalization--that we live in...
by Todd Gitlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, understanding, direction, and practical examples.In Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling...
Hunger
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six...
Vaccine A
The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--and Why GI's Are Only the First Victim
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In this provocative look at the US military from the Persian Gulf War through the 2003 invasion of Iraq, investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto contends that an anthrax vaccine dispensed by the Department of Defense was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the origins of a massive cover-up. Matsumoto...
The Counterrevolution
How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans
Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E....
The Trauma Myth
The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Few would argue that the experience of sexual abuse is deeply traumatic for a child. But in this explosive new book, psychologist Susan Clancy reports on years of research and contends that it is not the abuse itself that causes trauma-but rather the narrative that is later imposed on the abuse experience....
Religion Explained
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion Explained...
Leading Minds
An Anatomy Of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
From a pioneering psychologist and education expert, a sweeping examination of how great leaders harness the power of stories
In Leading Minds, Howard E. Gardner and his research associate, Emma Laskin, take a novel approach to the study of leadership, exploring it from a cognitive perspective...
To Follow the Water
Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects the great ages of ocean exploration...
Fierce Enigmas
A History of the United States in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region
South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the...
Divided We Stand
A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism....
The Bang-Bang Club, movie tie-in
Snapshots From a Hidden War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A gripping story of four remarkable young men—photographers, friends and rivals—who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa.
The World Through Arab Eyes
Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The uprisings that transformed the Middle East beginning in 2011 have left experts scrambling to understand where the region is likely to go in years to come. But missing from most of the analysis is a longer view of the evolution of Arab Public opinion and identity and how this is likely to influence...
The Neanderthal's Necklace
In Search of the First Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The Neanderthals provide a surprising mirror for modern-day humanity. They belonged to our evolutionary group and lived like the Cro-Magnons, our ancestors, did - worshipping, socializing, and hunting. The struggle between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons lasted thousands of years. The Cro-Magnons were...