America and Its Rivals: A Comparison Among the Nations of China, Russia, and the United States (Dulberger Michael D.)(Paperback)

America and Its Rivals: A Comparison Among the Nations of China, Russia, and the United States (Dulberger Michael D.)(Paperback)

America and Its Rivals provides an objective comparison of the United States, Russia, and China. It provides a solid foundation enabling the reader to create informed opinions about these three countries by examining their global status and the quality of their peoples'

The Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America (The Constitutional Convention)(Paperback)

Collected here are both The Constitution of the United States of America, with all of it's amendments and The Constitution of the Confederate States of America. The U. S. Constitution is the bed rock on which our nation was founded on. Included here with it is the Confederate Constitution. This

The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Wang Dong)(Paperback)

Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784-1949) and contemporary (1949-present) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world's

Constitution of the United States of America with the Declaration of Independence (Founding Fathers The American)(Paperback / softback)

'The Constitution of the United States of America,' inscribed and illustrated by master calligrapher Fink, brings to life the issues underlying the triumphs of this abiding document. Fink has gone back to his original black-and-white art and painted it anew, creating a full-color

The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World (Snchez-Ancochea Diego)(Paperback)

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of growing income gaps. The Costs of

Let's Look at the United States of America (Frisch-Schmoll Joy)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to the United States of America! Visit its mountains. Celebrate the Fourth of July. Find out about this country's animals, people, and

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America (Gutmann Amy)(Paperback)

Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per capita on medical care without insuring everyone. A 'remarkable, highly readable journey'

From Cold War to Hot Peace - The Inside Story of Russia and America (McFaul Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States (Donnelly Michael)(Paperback)

This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms

State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 (Arabic Edition) - Sustainability in action (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)(Paperback / softback)

The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. The report provides objective, reliable and up-to-date information to a wide audience - policymakers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed everyone interested in the fisheries and

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Offner Amy C.)(Paperback)

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out

1776 - America and Britain at War (McCullough David)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George

Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (Shimer David)(Paperback)

The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is 'the first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context.... Extraordinary and

Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between (Pulford Ed)(Pevná vazba)

Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria, anthropologist and linguist Ed Pulford

The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States (Dietze Carola)(Paperback)

Terrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in

How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Jankowicz Nina)(Paperback)

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Mazower Mark M.)(Paperback)

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Johnson Walter)(Paperback)

A searing and 'magisterial' (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson

Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Roberts Brian Russell)(Paperback)

Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other country in the world. This watery version of

Shakespeare in a Divided America (Shapiro James)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible

Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State (Schrad Mark Lawrence)(Paperback)

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not

Folktales of America: Stockings of Buttermilk, and Other Traditional Stories from the United States of America (Philip Neil)(Pevná vazba)

This exhilarating book brings together some of the best classic stories told in the United States. Many of the tales were brought to the USA from Europe, and their origins can be traced in English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish or German tradition. But wherever they spring from, the tales are

History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies (Vang Ma)(Paperback)

During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United

Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States (Capinera John L.)(Paperback)

In much of North America, crickets and katydids provide the soundtrack to summer nights, and grasshoppers frequent the fields and roadsides of midsummer days. Although insects from this group have long been the bane of those who make their living from the land, grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets