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An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all t

A provocative, entertaining, practical look into the rules and rituals of corporate life--of why some people make it big while others, equally experienced, talented, and credentialed, fall by the ways

Nearly a quarter century ago Carter Cast seemed to have it all together: he had a first-class education, an all-American athletic career, and was a very bright and energetic rising star on the fast

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save

Based on compelling new scientific and social science research on early childhood malnutrition, a new generation of activists has been inspired to rethink old approaches to "feeding the world." The ne

Nixon and Agnew were an odd couple whose political love affair disintegrated over five years into a calamitous denouement. Agnew's divisive rhetoric skyrocketed his popularity, but he grew weary of ex

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying.Across the world, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission, so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the crime scene of history closed?In this major non-fiction debut, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound,

Cane Toads: The Conquest by director Mark Lewis is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever filmed---an engrossing, hilarious, hair-raising, 3-D glimpse into one of today's weirdest natural phen

The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historia

The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed, livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation, and middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa turned into cauldrons of violence and re

The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violen

Michael Rosen’s seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted

In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging. In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free J

A brilliant and provocative reinterpretation of Shakespeare's largely forgotten narrative poems, and the political controversy behind them.As the year 1600 approached, unrest was stirring in post-Refo

You and your company can work less, be more productive, and make time for what's really important.The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity

This wonderful, diverse collection spanning the writing career of the celebrated 60 Minutes commentator and bestselling author is a great gift and must-have for fans

The Bonfire is the intimate and epic story of the most terrible city siege in American history: the destruction and burning of Atlanta.The struggle for Atlanta, the Gate City of the South, culminated

Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition--storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking--to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom

Vietnam and Iraq are now linked forever. But a straight comparison between the two wars does injustice to solid history. In this revised and updated edition of Is Iraq Another Vietnam? historian Robe

Foreword by Tarana Burke. Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement.Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wav

Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as

Describes how Benny Friedman grew from the son of working-class immigrants living in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto to become one of the earliest legends of the game through his unique forward pass techniq

In Japan Rising, Kenneth B. Pyle explores the remarkable history of Japan's shifting foreign policy over the last 150 years. He identifies the common threads that bind the divergent strategies of mod

Filled with high-tech weapons, gung-ho desert soldiers, and terrorist scenarios ripped from the headlines, today's ultra-realistic video games have moved to the forefront of the militarization of pop

David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman

General Wesley K. Clark's Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire explains in clear terms how the war in Iraq was waged, when the plans for the war were made, and exactly how th

From one of the world's leading experts, an absorbing narrative history of the changing structure of modern families, showing how children can flourish in any kind of loving home.The past few decades

We are in the midst of a full-scale attack on our nation's commitment to public education. From funding, to vouchers, to charter schools, public education policy has become a political football, rathe

In the ancient world it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations; now, more than ever, it is electricity.Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but el

A practical, inspirational guide to philanthropy, at all levels of giving.Charitable giving in the U.S. reached a new high in 2017 of more than $400 billion, with the majority of American households g

A remarkable story of a scientist's heroic efforts to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife surrounded by danger and destruction offers a unique portrait of a culture that derives immense pride and

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capabl

One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech