Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Hardcover - Anne Applebaum

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democr...

Reducere. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document . . . is A...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapi...

The Gulag was Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who...

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best Nonf...

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin a...

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Reducere. Twins Harley and Rhiannon Hummingbird have always been competitive. But there's one thing the siblings can agree on--they can't wait to travel from...

Stalin's deliberate engineering of the Great Famine as felt across Ukraine in the 1930s is examined in informed and authoritative detail, in this u...

DescriptionSince the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy...

Reducere. Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismis...

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to...

Contributor(s): Editor: Larry DiamondEditor: Marc F. PlattnerEditor: Christopher WalkerOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldene...

Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a bad reputation, as sha...

This book explores the stagnation of democracy in the Western Balkans over the last decade. The author maps regional features of rising authoritari...

Reducere. In the spirit of medieval bestiaries, this beautifully illuminated volume provides a well-stocked alphabet of mythical, magical creatures hailing f...

This first study into the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan uses a diverse range of original source material to reveal what d...

Reducere. Rich in history and admirable scholarship. . . . It's a fine grande champagne of a book, to be savored over and over.-Patricia Wells, author of The...

Reducere. In this volume are Max and the Spice Thieves (Book 1) and Max and the Isle of Sanctus (Book 2)Book 1- When his mother goes missing, Max Daybreaker'...

Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the commo...

Reducere. The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2, 000 years in th...

Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

The power of the court to overturn a law or decree--called judicial review--is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judg...

Reducere. Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face o...

DescriptionThe Cradle of Humankind--a paleoanthropological site about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site...

Reducere. ``The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.``--Gabriel Garcia Marquez``His enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on th...

In a land of story tellers, legends and beliefs carried down through generations, so it was in Ireland in 1800 for Tom Forde, who carried the spiri...

Reducere. Daniel's favorite thing to do is fish with his grandpa. But when his grandfather passes away, all that Daniel has left are stories of Big Larry, th...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Daniel MorganIllustration(s): 43 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 306Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dillon WallaceAttracted by Labrador's unexplored vastness, two American adventurers embark on an ill-planned attempt to tra...

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