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View book details for Arming Slaves
From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing …
NOW BACK IN PRINT! Wesley Gibson is one of lifes losers. His job sucks, his girlfriends cheating on him, and his lifes going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie... for Wesley is …
The white-hot spy series from the creators of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is back! Everything Velvet Templeton ever believed about the worst night of her life has turned out to be a lie, and now she 's coming back …
View book details for Keeping Faith with Nature
Ecosystems, Democracy, and Americas Public Lands
Yale University Press
As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policiesdevelopments that compel us to view the public lands …
Is it possible that King Arthur and Merlin can save England from...King Arthur(s) and Merlin(s)?!?! A very strange war is a brewin' indeed. The Otherworld and our world have collided and England is ground zero for the chaos! Bridgette has …
View book details for History Lesson
A Race Odyssey
Yale University Press
From the author of Not Out of Africa comes a gripping first-person account of the tyranny of political correctness in academe In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was …
View book details for Dignity
Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
Yale University Press
A noted conflict-resolution expert explores dignity, its role in human conflict, and its power to improve relationships Drawing on her extensive experience in international conflict resolution and on insights from evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience, Donna Hicks explains what the …
View book details for Losing Control
The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity
A hard-hitting analysis of the future of the global economy and what it means for the Western way of life As the economic giants of Asia and elsewhere have awakened, Western leaders have increasingly struggled to maintain economic stability. The …
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A New Life of Charles V
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the worlds first transatlantic empire"Masterly."William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal "Seldom does one find a work of such …
An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly …
View book details for Remedy and Reaction
The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
A leading expert explains how Americans trapped themselves in a costly and complicated health systemand came to fight so bitterly about changing it In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America …
View book details for American Covenant
National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future
An intimate and candid account of our national parks and their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life Part memoir, part critique, and paean to the value of national parks, American Covenant distills the experience and insights from two …
View book details for The South China Sea
The Struggle for Power in Asia
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world cant afford to be indifferent Chinas rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijings back …
View book details for In the Name of Rome
The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
A definitive history of the great commanders of ancient Rome, from bestselling author Adrian Goldsworthy. In his elegantly accessible style, Goldsworthy offers gripping and swiftly erudite accounts of Roman wars and the great captains who fought them. His heroes are …
View book details for Isaac and Isaiah
The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic
Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in …
View book details for The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep
Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin
Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it …
View book details for Raising Henry
A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
A mothers deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities Rachel Adamss life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a …
In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor Whatever a soul is, the author goes a long way toward soothing it. A very welcome instance of philosophy …
View book details for The Great Alignment
Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The …
A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian …
View book details for The Political Spectrum
The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. governments regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with …
View book details for Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by …
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The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
An evocative and enthralling account of a defining event in American history This thrilling book tells the full story of the an iconic episode in American history, the Boston Tea Partyexploding myths, exploring the unique city life of eighteenth-century Boston, …
View book details for Alfred Stieglitz
Taking Pictures, Making Painters
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (18641946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his …
Philip II of Spainruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever knownhas been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged …
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