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Chuck Wardell was regularly counted out. Even when he was born, the doctor didn’t think he’d make it. But Chuck counted himself in and, despite his struggle with dyslexia, rose to the top: through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the State Department and as a corporate CEO. With raw...

Bag of Tricks by Ruby Dee Philippa Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK ONE OF A PUNK TRILOGY BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s. These vignettes stand alone yet bleed into one another. Meet the band The...

In this third volume of Andrey Kurkov's war diaries, Ukraine's greatest living writer chronicles the third year of the full-scale invasion from his home in Kyiv and from journeys all over the country – capturing moments of horror, resilience, absurdity and grace with unmatched clarity. From the home front to the trenches, Kurkov captures the rhythms of survival – the quiet rituals, unlikely joys, unexpected humour and appalling costs – in an intimate and deeply moving record of national endurance.

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens. How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the...

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, JUSTIN SILLER In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, the CEO of our country's largest 9/11 nonprofit tells the inspiring story of his heroic brother, his family's mission, and how the generosity of so many continues to fuel their work supporting our...

How trauma became a weapon, by highly-acclaimed author of Virtue Hoarders Traumatized traces the emergence and triumph of the concept of trauma in public life. From shell-shock and PTSD to the power of Oprah Winfrey and the authentic personal brand, Liu weaves together the history of this now...

A sophisticated new account of sectarianism in the Middle East Sectarianism saturates our conversations about the Middle East, its politics and society, and the divide between Sunni and Shi'a captures headlines the world over. But in reality, sectarian difference is far from a uniquely Islamic...

“A highly readable study of the politics and price of capitulation.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential It may be scant solace...

В 2020 –2023 годах в мире произошло столько же успешных военных переворотов, сколько за все предыдущее десятилетие. Надежды на глобальную демократизацию не оправдались. Ослабление международных институтов, внутриполитические кризисы, экономические трудности и недовольство населения создают почву для прихода к власти военных режимов.

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author...

Bloomsbury presents The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a...

Una evasión de 600 mil millones de pesos: una cifra cuarenta veces superior al desfalco de Segalmex. "Todos los negocios jugosos que se hacen en el país llevan el visto bueno del presidente". Con esta frase, Andrés Manuel López Obrador pretendía sentar las bases de una nueva moral pública; sin embargo —y en este libro se demuestra— esa sentencia se convirtió en el mayor indicio de una traición sistémica. Mientras el gobierno presumía el fin del robo de combustible en los ductos, una red de corrupción mucho más sofisticada y letal perforaba las finanzas del Estado: el huachicol fiscal.

A groundbreaking history of the medieval Catholic moral philosophy that has challenged the foundations of American politics and culture and the emerging algorithmic order that threatens to overtake it In the 1980s, a generation of intellectually elite, conservative Catholic radicals rose from...

How Positive Youth Development Became a Battleground for Democracy is a powerful dual memoir that traces the collision of public service, equity, and political backlash within one of America’s most iconic youth programs: 4-H.

In a trenchant work of nonfiction, the #1 New York Times bestselling author identifies a series of self-inflicted wounds on our body politic that have led to the current moment, and shows us how we can undo the harm “A modern-day Tocqueville, Richard North Patterson marshals an immense amount...

As America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Proclaiming Liberty revisits the revolutionary year of 1776 through the minds of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two men whose words and ideas gave birth to modern liberty. Timothy Sandefur's engaging narrative brings to life the "American mind" as those extraordinary Founders sought to express it—their arguments, ideals, and enduring beliefs in natural rights and self-government.

Donald Trump ha ricostruito a propria immagine il Partito repubblicano lanciando un movimento popolare eterogeneo con il cappellino rosso MAGA in testa, grazie alle sue doti carismatiche e sfruttando risentimenti e complotti. La razionalità del discorso politico non gli appartiene, anzi, ha fatto dell'anti-intellettualismo una bandiera. Dietro l'apparente caos del Trump-pensiero, però, si è aggregato un movimento molto più strutturato di quanto si creda: una galassia di intellettuali, attivisti e politici che ha elaborato una critica radicale alla democrazia liberale americana.

From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields. The Supreme Court claims the extraordinary power to strike down laws passed by Congress―and for more...

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine—and all people—will look like in the twenty-first century. Palestine is a litmus test—the repercussions of which will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the world, argues...

A searing indictment of Western media that lays bare how the "free press," long tasked with speaking truth to power, instead became a vital part of the machinery that enabled the genocide in Palestine If you’re not writing the truth about crimes against humanity, you’re culpable in them...