Failed States

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. World of Wonders is an appreciation of the lyrics and music of the iconic Canadian Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist Bruce Cockburn. This book is the fir...

Reducere. In the following true crime anthology, you will read about twelve true crime stories that have baffled investigators and captured the imagination o...

Reducere. (Book). The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's ``Mr. Tam...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John ...

Reducere. Conquistador General Don Diego de Vargas led hundreds of Spanish pioneers to resettle New Mexico after the 1680 Indian Revolt. This little-known co...

Reducere. The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book combines a new English translation of La Relacion ("The Account") by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca with the translator's analysis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Faisal DevjiPakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment ...

DescriptionThe dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed t...

Reducere. DescriptionImprobable, if not impossible. How could a people who'd been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?Ag...

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

Reducere. EXPERIENCE BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE. When you have exhausted all your options and everything you were holding onto has failed, God steps in...

Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of Ho...

Reducere. After September 11th, Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to...

DescriptionA groundbreaking look at the role of water in living organisms that ultimately brings us closer to answering the riddle of the etiology ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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. 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...

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. 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...

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

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

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 ...

"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. 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...

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. 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. 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. 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. 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...