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"An important book, offering the clearest explanation of how dark forces conspired to overthrow our democratically elected government and install a fascist regime in its place. And it’s a warning...

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic...

From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country After his father's passing in 2019,...

How dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as "highly likely"--how likely is that, really? Whether we're trying to decide if...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read...

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in...

How a great enigma of astronomy was solved Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe?...

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right...

Cars are killing people and making the planet uninhabitable. Crashes take the lives of more than a million people around the world each year. Air pollution linked to motor vehicles contributes to...

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career...

Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture. Are Jews obsessively neurotic (as the films of Woody Allen and the novels of Philip Roth suggest)? Or are they less repressed...

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor. Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be...

Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, have long been a pillar of Western law and culture. In more recent times they have been...

For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how...

Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticNarrative...

Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon's escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace back into the frenzied panic of a war it...

The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with...

L'Union européenne est en crise. Une crise non seulement institutionnelle mais aussi et surtout identitaire dont on sent bien que la solution sera déterminante pour les prochaines années. On tente...

Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key...