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The Samaritan's Dilemma
Should Government Help Your Neighbor?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Politics has become a synonym for all that is dirty, corrupt, dishonest, compromising, and wrong. For many people, politics seems not only remote from their daily lives but abhorrent to their personal values. Outside of the rare inspirational politician or social movement, politics is a wasteland...
The Librarian
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
How on earth did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia's Ten Most Wanted Criminals list for bestiality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right-wing conspiracy to steal the presidency? It all begins so innocently when Goldberg starts moonlighting for eccentric, conservative...
The World in Conflict
Understanding the world's troublespots
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the last decade, the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan; Russia has sent troops into Ukraine; Britain and France helped topple a regime in Libya; the militant group ISIS has emerged in the Middle East; and across West Africa, the quest for precious minerals has both financed and caused...
Go Back to Where You Came From
The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?
Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning--and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. --From the Introduction
From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians...
The Longest August
The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes-primarily in caravans of bullock-carts-to...
Aftermath
Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Nir Rosen’s Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world.
Rosen—who the Weekly Standard once bitterly complained has “great...
Salvation Boulevard
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Some cases test a private investigator's wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard, P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect-who has confessed-is in custody. But nothing...
Radicals Chasing Utopia
Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thinking."-From the Prologue
In Radicals...
The H-Spot
The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.
For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done,...
Seriously Curious
The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Smart, savvy answers to universal questions, from the highly popular The Economist Explains and Daily Chart blogs-a treat for the knowing, the uninitiated, and the downright curious.
Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down brings together the very best explainers...
Backstabbing for Beginners
My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.
"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much...
Angel Face
Sex, Murder, and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox [The movie tie-in to The Face of an Angel]
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that...
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book."--Jill Lepore,...
The Names Heard Long Ago
How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the modern game and launched a new era.
In the early 1950s, the Hungarian side was unbeatable, winning the Olympic gold and thrashing England in the Match of the Century. Their legendary...