Politics & Government

V.1: The First Volume Of Richard Gwyn's Definitive Biography Of John A. Macdonald Follows His Life From His Birth In Scotland In 1815 To His Emigration With...

Originally Printed In 1935, War Is A Racket Is General Smedley Butler's Frank Speech Describing His Role As A Soldier As Nothing More Than Serving As A Pupp...

a Fully Restored American Political Classic. . . . Now We Can Read It As It Was Written.—chicago Tribune winner Of The 1947 Pulitzer Prize, all The King's...

Global Poverty, Economist Collier Points Out, Is Actually Falling Quite Rapidly For About 80% Of The World. The Real Crisis Lies In A Group Of About 50 Fail...

a Touchstone In Western Debates About Society And Government, The politics Is Aristotle's Classic Work On The Nature Of Political Community. Here, He Argue...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted seces...

All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crocket...

The violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, and its aftermath, highlight the importance of a detailed understanding of the Balkan region. The polit...

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One Man's Campaign To Build Schools In The Most Dangerous, Remote, And Anti-american Reaches Of Asia: In 1993 Greg Mortenson Was An American Mountain-climbi...

A Recasting Of The Turning Points In World History, Including The One We're Living Through, As A Struggle Between Old Power Hierarchies And New Social Netwo...

Throughout History, The Concept Of Command - As Both A Way To Achieve Objectives And As An Assertion Of Authority - Has Been Essential To Military Action An...

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal even...

One small act of kindness can change the world. From esteemed bullying expert and author of The Invisible Boy, Trudy Ludwig and Little Elliot illustrator Mi...

Introduction -- Planting The Flag : Establishing British/canadian Sovereignty In The North -- Arctic Frontiers : The Canadian North And The Cold War -- Inte...

The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea’s political pr...

This Critical Study, Designed For The Modern Reader, Explains What The Institutions Of The Classical Athenian Democracy Were, How They Worked, And On What A...

Product Description “A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling a...

in This Remarkable Collection Of Talks Given Over The Past Five Years, The Aga Khan Surveys The Modern World And Sets Out The Principles That Inform His V...

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbring...

With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have...

Edited By Sarah Katherine Gibson & Arthur Milnes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Politics &...

In The Bestselling Tradition Of The World Is Flat And The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower Will Be A Much Discussed, Contrarian And Eye-opening Ass...

Introduction To International Development Integrates The Work Of Leading Experts From Disciplines As Varied As Geography, History, Sociology, Political Scie...

Elegantly Tracing The Intellectual History Of Computer Science, Foer Puts The Dna Of The Very Idea Of Tech Under The Microscope. Google, Facebook, Apple, An...

Chronicles The History Of The Oil Industry And The Forces That Have Shaped The Modern World. Part I: The Founders -- Oil On The Brain: The Beginning -- Our ...

American Democratic Capitalism Is In Danger. How Can We Save It? For Its First 200 Years, The American Economy Exhibited Truly Impressive Performance. The C...

the Author Of The “adoptee’s Bible,” lost And Found, Explores The Inner Psychological World Of Adopted People And Shows How The Search For Biological Root...

You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor, but no one knows that better than the lead officer on the scene, Sergeant...

Who says you can’t train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America’s most popular cat behaviorists com...

The Historical Foundations Of Women's Power In The Creation Of The American Welfare State, 1830-1930 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Borderlands: Women, Voluntary A...

The Harvard-educated Comedian, Talk-show Host, And U.s. Senator Chronicles The Story Of His Unlikely Senatorial Campaign, Detailing The Ensuing Months-long ...

"A page-turner dripping with facts and conclusions that gives us clarity few have attained; a must-read for those who want to understand [Russia and Preside...

Providing both a historical and contemporary perspective on presidential powers, The Powers of the Presidency guides readers through the presidency as a co...

The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possib...

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...

William C. Wicken. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [281]-293) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villain -- as the "Good Bobby" who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it,...saw su...

Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 Geor...

2016 Speaker's Book Award ― ShortlistedFormer Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons he has ...

For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétienâ...

Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many use...

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase ...

The Received Idea Of Native American History--as Promulgated By Books Like Dee Brown's Mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee--has Been That Am...

"Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carré From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street: A tale of Nazi l...

Democratizing Global Media Explores The Complex Relationship Between Globalizing Media And The Spread Of Democracy Around The World. An International, Inter...

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new repo...