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by Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks...
Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen
An Ordinary Familys Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
International human rights activist Lisa Shannon spent many afternoons at the kitchen table having tea with her friend Francisca Thelin, who often spoke of her childhood in Congo. Thelin would conjure vivid images of lush flower gardens, fish the size of small children, and of children running barefoot...
Africa
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for...
Lifeblood
How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping,” Sachs told him. They're in malarial...
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times.
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations,...
The Fortunes of Africa
A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it...
Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations
Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
As a linchpin of global capitalism, the World Trade Organization is both revered and reviled. In this book, financial journalist Paul Blustein tells the surprisingly entertaining and compelling story of how the WTO is sliding into dysfunctionality-which poses a new and grave menace to globalization...
by Natan Sharansky
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1998
Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us-which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant.
Since Fear No Evil was originally...
Legends of the Plumed Serpent
Biography of a Mexican God
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and culture—both ancient and modern—critically-acclaimed biographer Neil Baldwin has created...
Running Commentary
The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the years of cultural and political ferment following World War II, a new generation of Jewish- American writers and thinkers arose to make an indelible mark on American culture. Commentary was their magazine; the place where they and other politically sympathetic intellectuals-Hannah Arendt, Saul...
Radicals for Capitalism
A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism-the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many...
The Philanthropy of George Soros
Building Open Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
With an Introduction by George Soros and an Afterword by Aryeh Neier
George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past thirty years, he has provided more than 8 billion to his worldwide network of foundations: the Open Society Foundations, which have applied...
A Chinaman's Chance
One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed...
Gracefully Insane
The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean...