Failed States

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber explore the Latin American Pink Tide as a political, economic, and cultural phenomenon, ...

Reducere. By the author of 2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-...

Reducere. Edward Everett Hale wrote The Man Without A Country in 1863 during one of the darkest times in our nation's history. At a time when our country was...

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

Reducere. What does the Bible say about Sex?It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no single subject that influences people as profoundly as sex.It t...

Publisher: 1517 MediaAuthor(s): Cyril OrjiNumber of pages: 259Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

This book compares the dimensions of state strength characterised by community, society, and nation. By exploring factors related to social cohesio...

Reducere. A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and bar...

Reducere. A true story told through the memoirs of Victor Kramchaninova and his family, these memoirs are a 20th Century Ukrainian odyssey that spans both Wo...

Reducere. In the midst of this once-in-a-century public health crisis, the United States was almost toppled from within by one of the two national political ...

Reducere. The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was inspired by L...

How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Samuel MoynNumber of pages: 416Publ...

Reducere. An elusive extremist hell-bent on destroying America. ​A woman of uncommon valor haunted by her tragic past. A dark web hacker confronting his cons...

Reducere. Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States's favor, significa...

Reducere. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with ...

Reducere. We live in a time of instant self-gratification. Just about everything we think we want is within our reach. This includes most things like food, s...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Reducere. Growing up in the spacious hills of West Virginia, Sebastian Storm's destiny was mapped out at a very early age. Tragically losing both of his pare...

"Painfully good. The book could have been called, 'Outrageous.' The story Andy Slavitt tells is not just about Trump's monumental failures but also...

Reducere. The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana ...

Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy - he was, in...

Reducere. Are you paying more taxes than you have to? There are more than nineteen million home-based businesses in the United States-56 percent of all busin...

Reducere. During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to po...

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown be...

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the ...

Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of po...

A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed ...

A visual tour-de-force graphic novel from artist and writer Dave McKean (Black Dog, The Sandman). The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a...

The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to ...

Reducere. The Houghton family brought the Industrial Revolution to Corning, New York, with a hot-glass factory and his friend's cut-glass industry. Although ...

The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a...

Reducere. Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot--and illegal--forays into Mexico, C...

Reducere. "Life Among the Piutes" was written by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, daughter of Northern Paiute Chief Winnemucca. In her book, Sarah provides a fascin...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Ri...

Reducere. Andres Cao Mendiguren (Havana, Cuba, 1931-) graduated from the University ofHavana's School of Medicine. He worked at Calixto Garcia Hospital until...

Major works from the Walker Art Center's collection, seen in the context of two watershed moments in American historyThis diverse survey of America...

For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day conse...

This book aims at the unquestioned colloquial use of the term 'failed states' and its idea that they are now the primary threat to international pe...

Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the tra...

Reducere. This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), fo...

Reducere. The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promi...

Reducere. In this provocative new book from prophetic preacher and pastor Susan Williams Smith, the author tackles the truths that the church in the United S...

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has ...

DescriptionChina expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national...

Reducere. Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North A...

DescriptionOver fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-...

DescriptionAn Air That Still Kills is the alarming and still-unfolding story of the deadliest environmental disaster in the United States. The cata...

Reducere. A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee me...

Reducere. The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ev...

DescriptionIsrael's victory over Arab states in the Six Day War of 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Ever since, Europe has struggled to esta...

Reducere. DescriptionFinalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama When she was fifteen years old, Heidi Schreck earned money for her college tuition by giv...

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

The common foods that people usually eat release either alkaline base or acid into the blood after they pass the digestion process. Foods such as m...

In 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from maximum security Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York. After three weeks on the run, one inmate was ...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E...

DescriptionAmericans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Prot...

Reducere. Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest bo...

DescriptionPartition represents the most fundamental revolution in modern Irish history. By 1925 the country had been divided into two states embod...

Reducere. For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural pr...

Can I Be Forgiven? In an out-of-the-way cemetery an unmarked tombstone bears the single word, Forgiven. A person can't help wondering, who was forg...

DescriptionIn "Dark Angel, " the second in the Lassiter/Martinez Case Files series, Detectives Barbara Lassiter and Susan Martinez pick up where th...

Reducere. Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the inte...

Reducere. The Fairmont Motor Car owes its existence to a tired railway section hand named Fred Mahlman Sr. Exhausted by daily trips using a handcar, Mahlman ...

Reducere. The Federal Reserve is a leviathan that overshadows the world economy, dominating it, controlling the flow of money, affecting all our lives. The F...

Reducere. DescriptionOswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden f...