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Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorismus

In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have in...

Collapse

From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations -...

Ever After

"This is the stuff of fairy tales," said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived ...

Contemporary Political Philosophy - An Introduction

This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include dis...

Dwight D. Eisenhower - The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transition A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight...

Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President - Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House

In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller "Front Row at the White House, " the dean of the White House press corps presents a viv...

Globalization and Its Discontents

In this contraversial book, the author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a powerful ...

The Legends of Wrestling - "Classy" Freddie Blassie - Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks

With a forty-year career spanning the very early days of television to the consolidation of all the local wrestling leagues under the Wor...

Makarenko, His Life and Work - Articles, Talks and Reminiscences

Anton Makarenko's book The Road to Life has been read by millions of people in fifty-four languages. In the Soviet Union alone it has run...

The Final Escape

Joe Jackson - A Biography

Shoeless Joe Jackson's rise from the cotton mills of the American South to the big cities of the North is a classic American tale of rags...

Wally by Name - A Monkey's Tale(Volume One)

Having been required to resign from the Leicester City Constabulary for the heinous crime of 'gross impertinence to a member of the publi...

Open House - Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own

A warm and seductive meditation on the personal and political from a renowned columnist and "one of the great theorists of race and law" ...

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (May-August 1924)

This vintage book contains the complete collected works of Mahatma Ghandi. This wonderful and comprehensive collection would make for a f...

Vitalizing Relationships - The Effects of the Social Network on the Subjective Quality of Like

Az ember helyzetét másokéhoz képest ítéli kedvezőnek vagy kedvezőtlennek. Ha a távolság nem túlságosan nagy, szűkös feltételei ellenére i...

Crisis in Economics? - Studies in European Political Economy

Professor Csaba raises in this timely book the crucial issues - for theory and policy - which emerge from the current crisis and its impl...

Crisis in Economics?

Professor Csaba raises in this timely book the crucial issues - for theory and policy - which emerge from the current crisis and its impl...

No One Would Listen

American Eve - Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

The scandalous story of America's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity-Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthda...

Last Hero

The death of Mickey Charles Mantle sparked a nationwide outpouring of emotion. How could someone who had stood for so long as a symbol of...

The Woman in Battle - Soldier, Spy and Secret Service Agent for the Confederacy During the American Civil War

An incredible heroine of the Confederacy There are several accounts told through the ages, and concerning several conflicts, of women who...

Lyndon B. Johnson

The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of...

Barbie and Ruth - The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

This is the entwined tale of two exceptional women. One was a voluptuous eleven-inch-tall beauty who debuted at the 1959 Toy Fair in New ...

The Next Decade

The author of the acclaimed \"New York Times\" bestseller \"The Next 100 Years\" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the n...

Rosa Bonheur - Influential Women in History

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur. She achieved notori...

Encyclopedia Gothica

A guidebook to the language of the most shadowy of subcultures, this work collects and defines more than 550 Gothic words and phrases. Co...

The Next Decade - Empire and Republic in a Changing World

The author of the acclaimed \"New York Times\" bestseller \"The Next 100 Years\" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the n...

Secret Green Beret Commandos in Cambodia - A Memorial History of MACV-SOG's Command and Control Detachment South (CCS), and Its Air Partners, Republic

We could call this book "Special Operations Recon Mission Impossible." A small group of highly trained, resourceful US Special Forces (SF...

Leila Khaled - Icon of Palestinian Liberation

Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 19...

To Whom It May Concern

This is a compilation of vignettes of things that have happened to members of our family. It is recollections of events and people and of...

The Choynski Chronicles - A Biography of Hall of Fame Boxer Jewish Joe Choynski

In this first and only biography of light-heavyweight champion and boxing legend Joe Choynski, author Chris LaForce chronicles the life a...

Revolution 2.0 - The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power

"A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media." - San Francisco Chronic...

A Father's Betrayal

Muna and her three sisters were happy children, growing up in Newport South Wales with their English mother and Arabic father. But in 197...

Only A Soldier Understands - A Military Devotional and Bible Study for Warriors with a Story Book 2 - Training

Nobody understands what it feels like to be a soldier - except another soldier. In Only a Soldier Understands Volume 2: Training, Vietnam...

Eve's Apple

A Witness of God's Faithfulness Marie struggles to grow in grace and guidance fromMarie struggles to grow in grace and guidance from the ...

Dear Child Molester - Secrets of Shame

I have learned and finally accept that there is no complete restoration from the horrific damage caused by sexual child abuse. This damag...

Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969 - A Nurse's Story of the Vietnam War

It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height. At the time, author Bernadette J. Harrod was twenty-four years old and a full-fledg...

Head-On, Stories of Alopecia

This collection of personal narratives follows the courageous journeys of over 75 writers as they find their way after being diagnosed wi...

As Far As I Remember

Michael Bawtree owes his cultured start in life to the rambling country house hotel his parents owned and managed in the 1950s. What it l...

Where are you from? - 'Playing White' under Apartheid

My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with 'playing white' for some years, we went one step further and 'jumped the colour li...

THE LAWLESS SIDE OF WAR - Making Millions on the Vietnam Black-Market - A Fictional Memoir

A young, naïve Texan takes a job with a foreign assignment in Saigon in order to beat the draft and, through attrition, he quickly become...

"Brother Woodrow" - A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson by Stockton Axson

This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and...

Becoming American - My First Learning Journey

Edgar H. Schein, a major contributor to the field of organizational psychology, often gets asked how he became interested in culture, car...

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (16pt Large Print Edition)

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell - all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has s...

Asperger's on the Inside

Asperger's on the Inside is an acutely honest and often highly entertaining memoir by Michelle Vines about life with Asperger's Syndrome....

Where's the Mother? - Stories from a Transgender Dad

"A deeply compelling memoir from a transgender man who birthed and breastfed his children - it's informative, inspiring, and transformati...

The Wah-Wah Diaries - The Making of a Film

On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and commu...

Obama: An Intimate Portrait - The Historic Presidency in Photographs

The definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his Chief White House photogra...

Collusion

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government. LONDON...

Sala de Dormitorios a Millonario - Como Sonar Grande, Creer Grande y Lograr Grandes

Alex Morton, quien es etiquetado como la autoridad principal para Creacion de impulso milenario, muestra las estrategias exactas que uso ...

Heart of a Game Ranger - Stories from a Wild Life

Predictability isn't a word you will find in any Bushveld dictionary, and the life of wildlife guardian Mario Cesare has been anything bu...

The Paris Notebooks

In 2007, Quentin S. Crisp visited Paris and kept a diary of his stay there and his return to Britain. An experiment in literary improvisa...

The Power of a Mother - A Journey to Destiny Through Chaos

This is a true story of a mother who separated from her husband and has three children-a five-year-old son and three-year-old twin sons-d...

Female Force - Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama. A mother, political force, and now...first lady, it's obvious that Michelle Obama has lived a life many have only dreamed...

Kritik der Europäischen Vernunft - Mit dem 'Manifest für die Begründung einer Europäischen Republik'

Robert Menasse hielt diese Rede anlässlich der Feierstunde »60 Jahre Römische Verträge« am 21. März 2017 im Europäischen Parlament. Ergän...

Promise Me, Dad

From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is his deeply moving memoir about ...

Promise Me, Dad

From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is his deeply moving memoir about ...

The Money Man - A True Life Story of One Man's Unbridled Ambition, Downfall, and Redemption

The Money Man shows readers solid ground on which to stand, and how to be free from anxiety, in an impermanent and disappointing world.

Jeanne Eagels - A Life Revealed (Fully Revised and Updated)

The true story is finally told about Jeanne Eagels, legendary Broadway actress (as Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain) and film st...