Politik & statsskick

How to Win a Cosmic War - Confronting Radical Religion

Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? "How to Win a Cosmic War" ...

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

From two of the best political reporters in the country comes the gripping inside story of the historic 2008 presidential election.

Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect ...

You Can't Read This Book - Censorship in an Age of Freedom

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. This is dangerously naive. From the revolution in Iran that wasn't to the imposition of super-injunctions from...

A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present - 1492 To Present

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, "A People's History of the United States" has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on g...

Talking to the Enemy: Religion, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists - Religion, Brotherhood, and the (Un)making of Terrorists

Confidence Men - Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

In this gripping, brilliantly reported, and sure to be news-making book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind tells the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, ta...

A Journey

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the n...

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - How China's Communists Merged Marx, Mao, and the Market to Create a New Superpower

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States.

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

mr. minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. his 'moment' has arrived. - The Wall Street Journal in his seminal work, minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. he explains why t...

Empire Lite - Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan

In "Empire Lite", Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire - the imperial and the humanitarian - and argues that the international community has failed to engage intelligently with the problems of nati...

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War - The Authorised Edition

The writings of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century -- revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. These diaries follow on from the events recorded in 'The Motorcycle Diaries' and recount the experiences that would make Che a figure...

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.

The Revolution Will Not be Televised - Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

This book reveals the secret of Trippi's off-the-charts political success - his revolutionary use of the Internet - and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual. Trippi's innovations brought fundamental change to the cultur...

Leaders and the Leadership Process - Reading, Self-assessments & Applications

The Sixth Edition of Pierce and Newstroms Leaders and the Leadership Process is a collection of readings, self-assessments, case studies and experiential exercises on leadership intended to give students a feel for the breadth and richness of this...

The Bang-bang Club - The Making of the New South Africa

The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young photographers, friends and colleagues, Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the photographs that encapsulate the final y...

See No Evil - the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism

Features a memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers. The author recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism. This work talks about the strategic alliance Osama bin Laden forged with Iran in 1996 and the planned cou...

Understanding Power - The Indispensable Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in "Understanding Power", Pe...

Wars, Guns and Votes - Democracy in Dangerous Places

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-d...

Franco - A Biography

Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book. The biography presen...