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Leap of Faith
Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history.
A single disastrous choice in the wake of 9/11-the decision to use force to remove Saddam...
Trail Of Feathers
Searching for Philip True
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges through the heart of the Sierra Madre. Five...
The Human Tide
How Population Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires
The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition
Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the Un
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsibleThe financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report,...
Shakespeare and the Resistance
The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country
The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension,...
Escape from Earth
A Secret History of the Space Rocket
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick.
Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters...
by Judith O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a remote northern outpost, she made a deal with her husband that the move was a test-run to weigh the benefits of country living. In the rugged landscape of Northumberland County, O'Reilly swapped her high...
by Robert Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The story of Anton Dilger brings to life a missing chapter in U.S. history and shows, dramatically, that the Great European War was in fact being fought on the home front years before we formally joined it. The doctor who grew anthrax and other bacteria in that rented house was an American-the son...
Shadowplay
The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
Before the Storm
Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked peaceful coexistence” with the USSR. Perlstein's...
Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse
A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again"
Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government....
Muhammad
Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary.
Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as inherently extreme or violent-a narrative that has overshadowed the truth of its roots. In this masterfully...
The Chief Financial Officer
What CFOs Do, the Influence they Have, and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The rapid rise in importance of the role of the chief financial officer—from back-office accountant to front-line executive—is unrivaled by that of any other corporate position. With access to every facet of the business, CFOs now wield a level of influence matched only by chief executives.
This...