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The Empire Must Die
Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From Tolstoy to Lenin, from Diaghilev to Stalin, The Empire Must Die is a tragedy of operatic proportions with a cast of characters that ranges from the exotic to utterly villainous, the glamorous to the depraved.
In 1912, Russia experienced a flowering of liberalism and tolerance that placed...
First Person
An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2000
Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him?
First Person is an intimate, candid portrait of the...
Reading Women
How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work-and was surprised how much she identified with...
A Great Idea at the Time
The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago,...
Ascent of the A-Word
Assholism, the First Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple...
by Geoffrey Nunberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
There has never been,” Nunberg writes, an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world.... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them.” These are the years...
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures....
Molly Ivins
A Rebel Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books, starting...
Master Thieves
The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
As featured on the "Last Seen" podcast, the thrilling, definitive story of the $500m Gardner Museum art heist, full of "characters that would make Martin Scorsese swoon" (Boston Globe)
In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti...
All the Kremlin's Men
Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards"(Lev Lurie).
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of...
The New Nobility
The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.
While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political...
Voices from the Grave
Two Men's War in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their role in that bloody conflict,...
The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
**With important new revelations into the Russian hacking of the 2016 Presidential campaigns
"[Andrei Soldatov is] the single most prominent critic of Russia's surveillance apparatus." -Edward Snowden**
After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified...
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke
Inventor, Fugitive, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This is the extraordinary story of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, war reporter, escaped prisoner, campaigner, father, educator--and all-around misunderstood genius. In his day, he was described as one of the world's great minds, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains virtually unknown today. Pyke...