"Colonel Gian Gentile's 2008 article "Misreading the Surge" in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at t
The Obama administration has announced its intention to change the long-standing combat exclusion policy that limited women to support jobs in the military; now women can hunker down in foxholes on th
Beautiful Eleanor Teal has accepted the tragedy in her life and gradually become reclusive, living alone in her Georgian home in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds?a place she once shared with the woman she lo
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 1,000 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 1,000 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, cove
In Tide Players, acclaimed author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming today’s China. In a half-dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, Tide Players capt
In the decennial census and the American Community Survey, increasing numbers of people are writing-in “American” as their national ancestry. By doing this they are cutting their ancestral ties to all
Aldo Bagnolesi finally has what he's long wanted. Control of the family winery in Tuscany. The only little detail is that someone has to manage the place for a few years. He's far too involved in his
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 300 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 300 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, covering
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 300 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 300 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, covering
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 300 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 300 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, covering
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 1,000 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 1,000 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, cove
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 1,000 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 1,000 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, cove
Let's Leap Ahead Trivia is a fun game of 1,000 questions that kids can play alone, with their friends, or in teams. This book includes 1,000 multiple-choice questions in ten different categories, cove
Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first si
When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Ernest Drucker’s A Plague of Prisons takes the same
What does it take to survive in a world built on lies?Sixteen-year-old Rubric loves her pampered life in the Academy dormitory. She’s dating Salmon Jo, a brilliant and unpredictable girl. In their all
Heart disease has long been thought of as a men’s issue, when it is actually the leading cause of death in both men and women. In fact, since 1984, more American women than men have died of heart dise
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping sixty-five workers in a subterranean tunnel. Napoleon Gomez, head of the fiercely indepen
?How could this happen in a country we helped liberate?” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pondered in the aftermath of the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi that left American ambassador to Lib
It’s the summer of ’82 and college dropout Heavenly Wilcox has found the perfect apartment in an idyllic California beach town. A job in the public defender’s office pays the bills and life looks to b
The last 25 years or so have witnessed redevelopment in the City of London on an unprecedented scale, following the deregulation of the financial markets, the so-called ?Big Bang,” in the mid-1980s. A
Berenice Baudry was born in Argentina and raised in France. She was a fellow of the Ecole Normale Superieure where she studied French and Spanish literature, and received her doctorate from the Univer
"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."?Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarcer
In this luminous collection of poems, Walker casts her eye on history, politics, and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, s
In the fickle world of fashion, little is certain except the sure knowledge that fashions come and go, and today’s unfashionable styles are likely to be back in vogue tomorrow. Bikinis, Bell-Bottoms a
In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward coll
Dorry Woods is notorious in Schuyler Point. Her antagonism plagues Bobbi Oliver from the day they meet. Having left Seattle in favor of the small South Carolina town, Bobbi is finding it hard enough t
Conquest, Famine, War, Death ? the four horsemen are coming, in the form of the national debt, widespread dependence on government, turmoil in the Middle East, and the expansion of the bureaucratic st
While the ?70s were about equal rights and the sexual revolution, women in the ?80s were more concerned about their economic situation. It’s easy to understand why some of the women in these stories w
What was love really like in the 1970s? Women were marching forward in the Women’s Movement, ?bringing home the bacon,” exercising their newfound sexual freedom, and still searching for true love. Int
In a society divided by birth, upbringing, education and status, young Chandrey Brava is raised in a conservative sect, but leaves home at sixteen for the Taelach Training Grounds. Naive and used to h
Fourteen- year-old Jasmine Hinton is leaving home?but not because she wants to. Bags piled high in the rear of their car, she and her father, Darryl, abruptly left their apartment in Richmond, Virgini
Kira Wagner is in Piper Beach to make money. The small resort town needs an high-end hotel and spa for women. With everything she owns invested in the expensive land, she needs a local expert to get t
Ragged, starving refugees want to settle in Lindsay Crossing. In a world waking up from a devastating plague, control of resources—and people—is the key to survival. Marissa Loomis has grown used to f
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Ge
Did you know President John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator? He kept it in a bathtub in the East Room of the White House. But President Adams wasn't the only commander-in-chief with an unusual pet. A
Magicians are undeniably sexy—strong, sensuous, masterful, and magical. Who wouldn’t want to succumb to one? Be levitated? Be sawed in half?Imagine being called from the audience by a dark man in a da
Life’s sweet when you’re seventeen and in love, right? Clemmie Atkins certainly thinks so! She’s still madly in love with her girlfriend, the hot and super-confident EMO, Hannah Harrison, and her irri
?We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once charac
In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons fro
