American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People, Hardcover - Jared Yates Sexton

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we'v...

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From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped hist...

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An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times ...

Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic - the state of British food.Publisher: Ha...

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DescriptionThe story of the cocktail --"the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet, " according to H.L. Mencken --featuring 45 recipes fo...

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The first book about Jane Austen to dissect the industry around her - a completely original approach to one of Britain's most enduring popular nove...

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Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy.

The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.

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'This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve ...

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A brilliant, thought-provoking look at British manufacturing industries, and whether it matters that we don't produce like we used to, from the muc...

Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often ...

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DescriptionThe extraordinary, and largely unchronicled, account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath...

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We often think of the apostles as spiritual giants-men who were uniquely qualified to walk with Jesus and carry on His mission to the world. But th...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's ``breathtakingly original`` (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. ``Ca...

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You can make a difference Believe it or not, the most effective way to make an impact on the world is to make an impact on individual people. How d...

DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

Which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces in the global business landscape now at work? This groundbre...