Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power, Paperback

The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lo...

Megan Black argues that the U.S. Department of the Interior, known for managing domestic natural resources and operating public parks, constantly s...

Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power - Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, Nicho

Michael Cox outlines the ways in which five American Presidents from Clinton to Biden have addressed their predecessors' legacies while dealing wit...

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

DescriptionSoon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and th...

Reducere. THE FIRST INSIDE ACCOUNT TO BE PUBLISHED ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S TIME AS SECRETARY OF STATE, ANCHORED BY GHATTAS'S OWN PERSPECTIVE AND HER QUEST TO...

Reducere. "Of all the important studies of the American right, The Family is undoubtedly the most eloquent. It is also quite possibly the most terrifying." -...

Reducere. This book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but t...

During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively becam...

DescriptionA new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that...

DescriptionThe locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paint...

Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire proves that people from all walks of life are attracted to the strange realm that is Emergenc...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose ...

Contributor(s): Author: Eric GrynaviskiThroughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and reb...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a...

Un film de fictune care se petrece in lumea fascinanta a unuia dintre cele grozave scandaluri ale anilor 1970, American Hustle/Teapa in stil americ...

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. In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an ...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

Reducere. Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events ha...

Reducere. In this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden's origins in the white-shoe postwar legal world an...

Reducere. The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Bet...

Publisher: New PressAuthor(s): Lloyd C. GardnerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 209 x 162 x 28Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): M...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Reducere. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Nethe...

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hit...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

Reducere. DescriptionJABAR has taken over THE COMBS' empire and locked down the streets of Los Angeles. He is the new leader of the family, but the oppositio...

The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feen...

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

Reducere. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic...

Reducere. Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of t...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

Reducere. In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of the...

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Se...

This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an Ame...