Ambition in America. Political Power and the Collapse of Citizenship, Hardback - Jeffrey A. Becker

Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected offici...

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The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the lo...

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A gripping account of Polish resistance during the Second World War

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Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can ho...

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DescriptionFrom the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambi...

Reducere. For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

International bestseller Jeffrey Archer and acclaimed artist Paul Cox join forces to create a beautifully sumptuous illustrated book featuring twen...

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

This book argues that the tragedy that has unfolded not only in terms of Brexit , but also the populism more widely that underpins it, could have b...

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1914, Belfast. William is a sceptic, but one night during a seance something happens that places doubt in his heart and a seed of obsession in his ...

Reducere. The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1...

DescriptionIn Case Red, Robert Forczyk shows that there was much more to the fall of France than Dunkirk. In fact, even after that legendary evacua...