First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers, Hardcover - Richard Lachmann

Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America los...

DescriptionA leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Discusses official investigations and amateur expeditions to the wreckage *Discusses the evidence and theories about the sinkin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tucker CarlsonThe popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political comment...

New paperback edition - The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources.Publisher: Amberley Publishin...

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of worki...

Toate amantele presedintelui. Puterea nu e la cel care o are, ci la cel care il are pe cel care o are / Presidencial Vice or: A Sinking Ship of Sta...

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The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that...

A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the intern...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of B...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fai...

Reducere. This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK's global National Interests since World War II. It is an intimate account...

Reducere. "Beautifully written and astutely observed. This is a marvelous book."--Washington Post "One of the best beach reads for summer 2021, titanic clari...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul KlebnikovFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regi...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent Americ...

This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

Reducere. This original and "meticulously researched retelling of history's most infamous voyage" (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses th...

Reducere. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are...

Publisher: Empire Publications LtdAuthor(s): John LuddenNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 178 x 124 x 26Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggl...

Reducere. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2018 A gripping adventure story and a rich resource for history lovers When 14-year-old Floren...

Reducere. Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and pen...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

"Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding." --Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winn...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public ...

The story of an enduring image influenced by forgotten histories, and a novel of obsession in the age of technology.

A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century BritainPublisher: Yale Univers...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard FlanaganNon-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East Ge...

Description"A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society ...

A major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present...

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo sca...

The present volume provides answers to contemporary questions in international relations by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies,...

Reducere. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

Reducere. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four...

A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a h...

Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has l...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 291Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 207 x 143 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Cinder HousePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New Y...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Decline of the West Volume I: Form and Actuality By Oswald Spengler Contents I-Introduction II-The Meaning of Numbers III-The Proble...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Friedrich TorbergNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 17Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrati...

Reducere. •Nominalizat la National Book Award 2021 •Nominalizat la Booker Prize 2021 Aceasta carte face parte din colectia Anansi Contemporan . Astrobiologul...

Reducere. When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and...

Reducere. On April 10, 1912, fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins boards the Titanic with his family. While sailing across the Atlantic, the giant ship stri...