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We Were Feminists Once
From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyoncé. It drives advertising and marketing campaigns for everything from...
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness:...
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy
A Civil War Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves...
Boom
Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes.
The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar...
The Cat From Hue
A Vietnam War Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Winner of the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award
John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war, however, the traumatic...
Abraham Lincoln
Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
In this beautifully designed volume, America's top Lincoln historians offer a diverse array of perspectives on the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president. Spanning Lincoln's life-from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign during one of America's most troubled...
The Dust Of Empire
The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material...
by I. F. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Izzy Stone was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have more than stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection of his work from I.F. Stone's Weekly and elsewhere is astonishing in its relevance to our age, addressing...
War Hospital
A True Story Of Surgery And Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives.
Drawing...
More Terrible Than Death
Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis...
The Future of War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence.
Questions about the future of war are a regular feature...
Engines of War
How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of conflict. But with the birth of the railroad in the early 1830s, the way wars were fought would change forever.
In Engines of War, renowned expert...
Masters of Chaos
The Secret History of the Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the...
America's Fiscal Constitution
Its Triumph and Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis?
America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits that for two centuries...