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Don't Wait for the Next War
A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of America's sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently but its leaders' objectives were substantially...
Moscow, December 25, 1991
The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse...
Perilous Question
Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller.
The era, beginning with the accession of William IV, is...
Big Citizenship
How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference throughout his life. As a young graduate from Harvard Law School, he turned down lucrative offers from corporate law firms to found a non-profit called City Year with his friend, Michael Brown.
City Year allowed young people...
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A neuroscientist's unique and fascinating journey into his own addiction--for readers of Oliver Sacks and Andrew Solomon
Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of...
The Biology of Desire
Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.
The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have...
by Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions,...
City of Lies
Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Rich, absorbing, and exotic-City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts.
Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians...
I'm Dying Up Here
Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Now a Showtime original series
In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of...
Life After Murder
Five Men in Search of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again?
Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself...
by Maurice Isserman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2001
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worke"
This Land that I Love
Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before...
Auschwitz
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
This vivid and harrowing narrative history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators
The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz,...
The Haunted Smile
The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes...