International & World Politics

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underly...

An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.Categories: Biographies & Me...

Nearly three years have passed since that tragic day in September. Since then, our wounds have healed, but our senses and memories have dulled. At first, t...

With 30% New Readings In The Eighth Edition, Essential Readings In World Politics Introduces Students To Key Classic And Contemporary Works In International...

The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "d...

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable ...

Two Of America's Leading Experts On Violent Extremism And Terrorism Explain The Genesis, Evolution, And Implications Of Today's Most Barbaric Jihadist Army,...

In April 1994 Up To A Million People Were Slaughtered In Rwanda During A Murderous Campaign Of Horrifying Efficiency. The Ferocity Of The Killing And The Cr...

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroi...

Howard Blum Tells The Account Of Two Modern-day Adventurers - Larry Williams, A Two-time Republican Candidate For The U.s. Senate From Montana And A Self-ma...

Essays Chronicle The Author's Activist Stint On The Moscow Barricades In 1991, His 2002 Account Of Cultural Rebirth In Post-taliban Afghanistan, And Other S...

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 underst...

The Highest-ranking Woman In The History Of U.s. Government Chronicles The Story Of Her Life, From Her Childhood As A Czechoslovakian Refugee Through Her Ri...

John Kerry Tells The Story Of His Extraordinary Life Of Public Service, From Decorated Vietnam Veteran To Five-term United States Senator, 2004 Democratic P...

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to pres...

From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to a Nation, Rorke Denver, the b...

The Triumph Of Empire Takes Readers Into The Political Heart Of Imperial Rome And Recounts The Extraordinary Challenges Overcome By A Flourishing Empire. Mi...

Fully Updated, The Sixth Edition Of International Human Rights Examines The Ways In Which States And Other International Actors Have Addressed Human Rights ...

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and polit...

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

The Prison Memoirs Of The Soviet Dissident And Jewish Activist Relate The Harrowing Events Of His Nine Years In Kgb Custody, From Interrogation To Release. ...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

As U.s. Troops Prepare To Withdraw, The Shocking Tale Of How The American Military Had Triumph In Sight In Afghanistan--and Then Brought The Taliban Back Fr...

Publisher's description: While tensions continue to rise in Iraq and surrounding countries, there is a heightened curiosity worldwide for definitive, balanc...

No Longer The Exclusive Province Of The Far Right And Far Left, Anti-semitism Finds A Home In Identity Politics And The Reaction Against Identity Politics, ...

Canada's "no. 1 defender of freedom of speech" and the bestselling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, eth...

In These Recent, Wide-ranging Interviews, Conducted For Truthout By C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky Discusses His Views On The War On Terror And The Rise Of Neo...

Emerging From A Collection Of City States 150 Years Ago, No Other Country Has Had As Turbulent A History As Germany Or Enjoyed So Much Prosperity In Such A ...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

Bob Rae. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: History Americas CanadaFirst Nations

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

Two leading futurists analyze war in the past, offer insight into modern conflicts, and examine the future face of war based on the idea that forms of war a...

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the wo...

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of "Citizens of London" comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World...

Is it really possible to love one’s enemies? That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies design...

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and interna...

Are We Losing A War Few Of Us Realize We're Fighting? Poisoned Dissidents. Election Interference. Armed Invasions. International Treaties Thrown Into Chaos....

From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism.“A smart, revealing, and essen...

For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings tog...

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

A Comprehensive And Unique Overview Of Elections And Voting In Canada From Confederation To The Recent Spate Of Minority Governments, This Book Examines Cha...

[howard French] Takes Us Inside Nigeria, Liberia, Mali, And The Congo, Examining ... The Legacy Of Colonization In The Lives Of Contemporary Africans--jacke...