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Defending Identity
Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience...
by Jon Rauch
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for National...
The Wars of Afghanistan
Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the region's conflicts over the last two decades. Now Tomsen draws on a rich trove of never-before-published...
Jefferson's War
America's First War on Terror 1801-1805
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. Jefferson ordered the...
The Why Axis
Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Can economics be passionate?
Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out.
And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life?
Uri Gneezy and John List are revolutionaries. Their ideas and methods for revealing what really...
Spies and Commissars
The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution...
John F. Kerry
The Boston Globe Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
John F. Kerry: The Boston Globe Biography tells the ambitious story of the former Presidential candidate and Senator, and current Secretary of State. Based on a highly regarded series published in The Boston Globe and augmented by years of additional reporting, it explores John Kerry's background,...
Island in a Storm
A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent planters and merchants retreated to...
The Great American University
Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Although America’s universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our great universities. It shows...
Unprecedented
The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Foreword by Randy E. Barnett
In 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 54 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on narrow grounds to save the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Unprecedented tells the...
Born in Africa
The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden.
In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows...
Power Hungry
The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot--and will not--quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason:...
Gusher of Lies
The Dangerous Delusions of ""Energy Independence""
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Everybody is talking about energy independence.” But is it really achievable-or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises and political posturing behind the rhetoric. Gusher of Lies explains why the idea of energy independence...
The Foundation
A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the public knows they even exist; and for those who are aware of them, as well as even those who seek grants from them, their internal workings remain a...