Intimate Politics

"An intimate dialogue with Joseph Beuys ... takes us into the deeper motivations and understandings underlying 'social sculpture' and his expanded ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and econom...

Reducere. DescriptionSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold M...

DescriptionCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist'...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love i...

DescriptionToday over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-conte...

DescriptionJames MacMillan appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making and is particularly celebrated for his orchestral, operatic and...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Indian Movement burst onto the scene in the late 1960s as indigenous people across the country began to demand what is righ...

DescriptionThe most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls--these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference b...

The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wa...

Reducere. Working Girl meets What Remains in this New York Times bestselling, behind-the-scenes story of an unlikely friendship between America's favorite Fi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerard DepardieuTranslator: Rainer J. HansheIn his proto-memoir Innocent, world-renowned actor G rard Depardieu reflects on...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt a...

DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The eighth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and...

In which our heroes are reunited a mere five centuries later... just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself This...

Reducere. In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most...

Reducere. Praise for the 2005 Edition: "A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's hist...

Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

Reducere. DescriptionWill her nemesis become her ally? Find out in the thrilling sequel to Nemesis from Anna Banks, the New York Times-bestselling author of ...

Reducere. Description"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflictin...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th centuryThe American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adve...

Reducere. DescriptionA quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation...

Reducere. DescriptionOVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD RUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Explosive."--The Washington Pos...

Reducere. "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism f...

Reducere. From the author of New York Time bestseller The Tourist...Olen Steinhauer's acclaimed crime series set in Eastern Europe has taken readers from the...

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Kn...

How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does h...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and honesty--Brown manages to bestow upon even the most publ...

DescriptionHow can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless ...

This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native Amer...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson--Jermaine Jackson illuminates the private man like never before and offers unriva...

After intense discussions with her husband over politics, coupled with the unexpected passing of her mother, author Jen Dalton found herself trying...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by F...

Reducere. No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him and fallen short of them so quickly. But Ted Kennedy, the gregari...

The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politic...

Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer ...

Reducere. John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine presents "a vivid portrait of JFK Jr. that only a select few have ever seen, offering a to...

DescriptionDelusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social st...

Reducere. The Mueller Report was a catastrophe for the malevolent forces desperate to impeach President Donald Trump. It failed to prove any collusion betwee...

Reducere. In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairva...

Reducere. A lively memoir of West Hollywood author-activist-influencer Larry Townsend whose signature Leatherman's Handbook was a founding text for gay men w...

Reducere. Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Gr...

Reducere. The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz alon...

Reducere. The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his int...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great againHe wa...

DescriptionOnce upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Hailing fro...

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures bec...

Winner of the RNA Book Award, Nautilus Award, and Wilbur Award.This special paperback edition includes a 40-day devotional that pairs passages from...

Reducere. A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Pe a disclose Rivera's iconoclastic views of life and the ...

DescriptionFrom a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promis...

DescriptionAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather A...

Reducere. A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood o...

DescriptionA rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive ...

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

Reducere. History tells us that the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful Margaret of York had everything any woman could want, except for love. The acclaimed a...

DescriptionAn intimate look at the love that built the Biden family and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center"How did you get this ...

DescriptionThere is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal ...

DescriptionErich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be les...

And isn't the story of our lives the story of our women, the mythology we have lived and been bequeathed? Anna Mae Perillo's INHERITANCE OF COURAGE...

Reducere. Wilda retired from the Temporal Agents for an excellent reason. Retired Temporal Agent Wilda Firestone just wanted to run her Toronto shop: garb Ti...

Reducere. Downloaded 19 May 2018. Table of contents and article numbers have been corrected. Now includes the new Article 117a titled 'Wrongful broadcast or ...

Reducere. "Laughter is the language of the soul, " Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem street ...

She was a wealthy debutante groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins reinvented herself as one of the most provocative, courag...

Reducere. Rare and Commonplace Flowers--a Brazilian bestseller--tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sou...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

Reducere. Washington State Book AwardJames Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stor...