The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (Brzezinski Zbigniew)(Paperback)

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (Brzezinski Zbigniew)(Paperback)

Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world.In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers (Anderson Perry)(Paperback)

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests

On the Trail: A History of American Hiking (Chamberlin Silas)(Paperback)

The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails 'This winning, thought-provoking book offers insight into a relatively unknown aspect of environmental history.'--Library Journal (starred review) In the mid-nineteenth century urban

The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy (Langley Lester D.)(Paperback)

This book brings together Lester D. Langley's personal and professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative that spans more than 150 years and places the Revolution in multiple contexts--from the local to the transatlantic and hemispheric and from racial and gendered to political,

Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Borgwardt Elizabeth)(Paperback)

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it grand? In answering these questions, most scholars have

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vu (Furedi Frank)(Paperback)

Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides

Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise (Patel Eboo)(Paperback)

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict and distrust, how do we affirm that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages

Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation (Gogol Eugene)(Paperback)

This book begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin-American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed following the French-Revolution. From

Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901-1916 (Arnold Peri E.)(Paperback)

In a period of American history marked by congressional primacy, presidential passivity, and hostility to governmental action, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became iconic presidents through activist leadership. Peri Arnold, a leading presidential scholar, goes beyond the biographers to

Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Woodward Bob)(Paperback)

Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping

Bugatti: Type 35 Grand Prix Car and Its Variants (Cole Lance)(Paperback)

Full coverage of the innovative design and genius of Bugatti that lead to the

The Marauders (Cooper Tom)(Paperback)

'A little Elmore Leonard, a little Charles Portis, and very much its own uniquely American self. . .Tom Cooper has written one hell of a novel.' -Stephen King When the BP oil spill devastates the Louisiana Gulf Coast, the citizens of the bayou town of Jeanette scramble to replace their lost

American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (Brands Hal)(Paperback)

'Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States todayAmerican foreign policy is in a state of upheaval. The rise of Donald Trump and his 'America First' platform have created more uncertainty about America's role in the world than at any time

Severance (Ma Ling)(Paperback)

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is

Across a Hundred Mountains (Grande Reyna)(Paperback)

Winner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a 'timely and riveting' (People) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America--a story of migration, loss, and discovery. After a tragedy separates her from

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Hashimi Nadia)(Paperback)

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Washington Harriet A.)(Paperback)

A 'powerful and indispensable' look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19 risk factors. Did you know... Middle-class African American households

A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Nguyen Tan Hoang)(Paperback)

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural

The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (McDonald Duff)(Paperback)

The story of McKinsey & Co., America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, 'an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity' (The Wall Street Journal). If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey can lay claim to

Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Tocqueville Alexis De)(Paperback)

A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9

American Art and Architecture (Lewis Michael J.)(Paperback)

This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the book defines the characteristics of the different periods and highlights the consistent forms,

The Essence of an Hour (Furber Susan)(Paperback)

It's 1941, the last summer of American innocence, and eighteen-year-old Lillie Carrigan is desperate to love and be loved, to lose her virginity, to experience her life's great, epic romance. Preoccupied with whiskey and cigarettes, sex and Catholic guilt, Lillie unknowingly sets in motion events

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Ellis Joseph J.)(Pevná vazba)

Devil's Chessboard - Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Talbot David)(Paperback / softback)

Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA