Publicaffairs: 825 books
The Assist
Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Jack O'Brien is a high school basketball coach extreme in both his demands and his devotion. With monastic discipline, he has built a powerhouse program that wins state championships year after year while helping propel players to college. He does this as a white suburban guy working exclusively with...
West of the West
Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as...
The Wonga Coup
Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billiondollar corruption,...
by Meg Greenfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
With Washington, the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post wrote an instant classic, a sociology of Washington, D.C., that is as wise as it is wry. Greenfield, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, wrote the book secretly in the final two years of her life....
After Such Knowledge
Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities...
Hatred
The Psychological Descent Into Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that inspires acts of malignant violence such as suicide bombings or ethnic massacres.
In Hatred, Dr.Willard Gaylin, one of America's most respected...
The Devil Came on Horseback
Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals, notebook after notebook and nearly 1,000 photographs....
by Ward Just
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best
a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same time
rich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands
a fine, satisfying, rewarding...
Front Burner
Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s commander, Kirk Lippold, felt the ship violently thrust...
When The War Was Over
Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian...
Kids First
Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
It may "take a village to raise a child," but most American families are struggling, with diminishing social support, to do the job on their own. While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on...
The First 1,000 Days
A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children-And the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
"Your child can achieve great things."
A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true. Among them were Esther Okwir in rural Uganda, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world; Jessica Saldana, a high...
The Child Catchers
Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
When Jessie Hawkins’ adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn’t, at first, know what to think. She’d wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she’d done something...
The Culture Map
Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the...