"In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature-and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transfor
"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." ThucydidesThe fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to dest
The Peers Incorporated model combines two powerful forces. On one side, we have industrial strengths: companies, governments, and institutions (i.e., the "Inc.") that apply significa
In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature?and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transfor
Presents a portrait of ordinary contemporary Iraqis who are possessed by the 'genie of terrorism, chaos and mayhem' unleashed by the American invasion. This book illustrates just how gross the misjudg
Since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945, lawful nations have struggled to impose justice around the world, especially when confronted by tyrannical and genocidal regimes. But in Cambodia, the USSR, China,
Through the lens of three of the most devastating food crises in modern history—the Gorta Mor of British-ruled Ireland, the great famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that
With hilarious scenes from his childhood alternating with acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, Frank Schaeffer asks what the Gl
Twenty-three years ago, Bay Buchanan was thrown--or as she says, dumped--into the world of single parenting. It wasn’t a popular time to be raising kids solo, especially as a rising star in the conser
On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of Hugo Chavez. The opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chavez’s
Examines the efforts of lawful nations to impose justice on those responsible for crimes against humanity and the limited success of international courts, and discusses the legal and ethical issues su
Discusses the current state of America and the culture of self-loathing exhibited by the conservative, religious right's pundits and explains why the author attributes it all to sex, based on his own
In the 1960's Johnny Cash had risen to stardom with his classic hit Ring of Fire, the album that followed, however, endangered his career and brought out the deep rooted ugliness of American culture.
The second volume of Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our
Timothy Freshwater--a smart-aleck boy who just got expelled from the last school in the city--learns that the Chinese mail clerk at his father's office is really an enslaved dragon who, with Timothy's
America’s economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spir
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors
Often mistaken for a boy because of her haircut and name, Alex Morningside is an inquisitive girl of ten-and-a-half who attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. Unfortunately, though she love
When the pirates of the Ironic Gentleman kidnap Alex Morningside's beloved new teacher, Mr. Underwood, Alex sets off on a journey to rescue him and tries to enlist the help of Captain Magnanimous, Cor
Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He
Written at the late iconic Hollywood star's request and with the cooperation of his closest friends and associates, an intimate portrait draws on interviews, letters, family scrapbooks, and other pers
An in-depth chronicle of the collapse of the Argentinean economy looks back on its heights during the 1990s and the crash of 2001, examining the chaos that followed and the responsibility of the First
The author, a Muslim United States Army chaplain, describes how he was wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned at the Guantaanamo Bay Naval Base, and his fight to be cleared of the charges.
The point of departure for this book is an antique saying: life is incomplete unless love, poverty, and war have been experienced. In his introduction, Hitchens, one of the most controversial intelle
Legendary filmmaker John Sayles has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the "screenwriter's screenwriter." Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection of his greatest
Screenwriter and novelist Norma Barzman's extraordinary memoir is a unique record of the political tempests of the post-war era and the rise of McCarthyism. Exiled to France with her screenwriter husb
A well respected Middle East expert shares his thoughts on the region in the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq--an event he suspects will destabilize the area even further--covering the major
Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and composes an elegy for a Nature blasted by human negligence a
What is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassing 200 miles per hour? Critically acclaimed journalist G. Wayne Miller deci
In this volume, a distinguished group of experts - prize-winning presidential biographers, historians, and journalists examines how an array of twentieth-century presidents have commanded, wielded, a
In the current era of intense global competition, advancing technology, weakness in organized labor and a worshiping of ?shareholder value,? the idea of a corporate social contract in America has beco
Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the
Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of th
In the mid-nineteenth century, Charleston, South Carolina was the most powerful city in the South. Men flocked from across the region to join in the city's vibrant economic, political, and cultural li
As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line on Marathon Monday in Boston in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change. She had no idea that in a matter of minutes she wo
In the past year, crowdfunding platforms helped generate a staggering $34 billion dollars in funding. But the harsh reality is that the majority of crowdfunding campaigns fail-only 40% meet their goal
In this new book, Charles Morris tackles the white whale of economic history, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, which has become a palimpsest of competing fads and trends in thinking about f
Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they
Modern life is warped by the trend of specialization?the push for each person to be an expert in their own little niche. But is this serving us well? In business, government, personal life, sports, a
The combined value of all M&A deals from 1980 to the end of 2015 was almost $65 trillion?bigger than the current annual world economy value outside the US. In that same period, almost 900,000 deals we
