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  • - The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
    av James Horn
    350,-

    The extraordinary story of a young Indian boy who was kidnapped from coastal Virginia and assimilated into to European culture-before returning to America and waging a lifelong struggle to drive out the invading colonists?

  • - Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    av Andrew Krepinevich & Barry Watts
    616,-

    For readers of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes and Henry Crumpton's The Art of Intelligence, the first ever biography of Andrew Marshall, the legendary (and reclusive) Pentagon strategist who has served under every president from Nixon to Obama.

  • - How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
    av Rafe Sagarin
    570,-

    Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to past threats and trying to predict future risks will only waste resources in our increasingly unpredictable world.In Learning from the Octopus, ecologist and security expert Rafe Sagarin rethinks the seemingly intractable problem of security by drawing inspiration from a surprising source: nature. Biological organisms have been livingand thrivingon a risk-filled planet for billions of years. Remarkably, they have done it without planning, predicting, or trying to perfect their responses to complex threats. Rather, they simply adapt to solve the challenges they continually face.Military leaders, public health officials, and business professionals would all like to be more adaptable, but few have figured out how. Sagarinargues that we can learn from observing how nature is organized, how organisms learn, how they create partnerships, and how life continually diversifies on this unpredictable planet.As soon as we dip our toes into a cold Pacific tidepool and watch what we thought was a rock turn into an octopus, jetting away in a cloud of ink, we can begin to see the how human adaptability can mimic natural adaptation. The same mechanisms that enabled the octopus's escape also allow our immune system to ward off new infectious diseases, helped soldiers in Iraq to recognize the threat of IEDs, and aided Google in developing faster ways to detect flu outbreaks. While we will never be able to predict the next earthquake, terrorist attack, or market fluctuation, nature can guide us in developing security systems that are not purely reactive but proactive, holistic, and adaptable. From the tidepools of Monterey to the mountains of Kazakhstan, Sagarin takes us on an eye-opening tour of the security challenges we face, and shows us how we might learn to respond more effectively to the unknown threats lurking in our future.

  • - Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
    av Brent Scowcroft & Zbigniew Brzezinski
    370,-

    Americas status as a world power remains at a historic turning point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the changing nature of power in a globalized world.In America and the World, two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, dissect the challenges facing the US today: the Middle East, Russia, and China, among others. In spontaneous conversations the two authors explore their agreements and disagreements. Defining the center of responsible opinion on American foreign policy, America and the World is an essential primer on a host of urgent issues at a time when our leaders decisions could determine how long our nation remains a superpower.

  • - An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste
    av Herbert J. Gans
    376,-

    In this brilliantly conceived and clearly argued discussion of the relationship between high and popular culture, Herbert Gans, outspoken advocate of cultural pluralism, questions the universality of high culture standards.

  • - Conscious Minds in a Material World
    av Colin McGinn
    320,-

    One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness?

  • - A Portrait In Five Generations
    av Betty Caroli Boyd
    410,-

    From the bestselling author of First Ladies, Inside the White House, and America's First Ladies comes the first look at the women of one of the most influential families in American history: The Roosevelts.

  • - A Life In Science And Politics
    av Ted Goertzel
    400,-

    "One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes--one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large m"

  • - A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year
    av Dawn Dais
    216,-

    An updated edition of the laugh-out-loud guide to the first year of motherhood, filled with helpful advice and wisdom from real moms and dads who aren't at all afraid to tell it like it is

  • - America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
    av Akhil Amar
    620,-

    A history of the founding of the American Constitution and its ever-shifting meaning, from the document's most respected scholar

  • - How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
    av Joshua D. Rothman
    540,-

    An award-winning historian reveals the horrifying and forgotten story of slavery as big business -- and its role in the making of America

  • - Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time
    av Stefan Halper
    410,-

    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington,but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus , a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations.

  • - A Gay Man's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition
    av Martin Duberman
    266,-

    An account of the author's attempts to "cure" himself of his homosexuality through therapy, medical treatments and faith healers. For this new edition, Duberman has written a new preface chapter and an afterword, bringing his life (and, more broadly, the gay experience in America today) up to date.

  • - Multicultural Identity In The New World Economy
    av G. Pascal Zachary
    270,-

    A Wall Street Journal correspondent's visionary, big-picture look at why countries, businesses, and people either win or lose in an increasingly multicultural world

  • - Ten Remarkable Women Meet The Challenge Of Fitting Breast Cancer Into Their Very Busy Lives
    av Peggy McCarthy
    280,-

    "They come from different backgrounds and from professions as varied as medicine, education, and entertainment, but these ten women share one thing in common: They all have breast cancer. This book des"

  • av Glenn Weisfeld
    530,-

    An exploration of human adolescence, this book is unique because of its ethological perspective. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, providing a research-based description of human adolescence. He also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other species, human cultures, and historical periods.

  • - Community And Its Counterfeits
    av John McKnight
    410,-

    McKnight shows how the experts' best efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities can actually destroy them and celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.

  • - A Social History Of American Newspapers
    av Michael Schudson
    390,-

    "This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective "news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, an"

  • - Martin Luther King Jr., The FBI, and The Poor People's Campaign
    av Gerald D Mcknight
    396,-

    "In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor People's Campaign, the last large-scale demonstration of civil rights--era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and"

  • - A Nation Divided Over Islam's Revival
    av Marvine Howe
    280,-

    Three-quarters of a century ago Mustafa Kemal Ataturk launched a sweeping Cultural Revolution in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, abolishing the Caliphate and Sufi orders and other Islamic institutions to create the modern secular Republic of Turkey.

  • av Christopher Coker
    396,-

    "It would have been inconceivable," wrote Henry Kissinger in his best-selling book Diplomacy, "that the architects of NATO would have seen as the end result of victory in the Cold War greater diversit"

  • - on My Journey Now
    av Lloyd L. Brown
    258,-

    "Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and record-breaking actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of America's most controversia"

  • av Arthur Fleisher
    310,-

    "According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years for average Americans. A corollary argument asserts that the combination o"

  • - Nigeria In Crisis
    av Karl Maier
    360,-

  • av Thomas Lippman
    300,-

    The story of the woman who, with unprecedented enthusiasm and openness, helped forge a new foreign policy for America.

  • - The True Story Of Soviet Science
    av Vadim J. Birstein
    416,-

    A powerful account of the tragic and brutal consequences of the Communist Party/KBG control over Soviet scientists and intelligentsia

  • - Extraordinary Acts Of Ordinary People
    av Samuel P Oliner
    310,-

    A Holocaust survivor and sociologist sheds light on, and celebrates, the motivations behind the benevolent actions of ordinary people

  • - How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art
    av Lance Esplund
    350,-

    A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art

  • - Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
    av Joseph Ratzinger & Marcello Pera
    190,-

    Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-now Pope Benedict XVI-joins Marcello Pera, President of the Italian Senate, to offer a provocative critique of the spiritual, cultural, and political crisis afflicting the West

  • - The Permanence of Racism
    av Derrick Bell
    296,-

    The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the disparity between civil rights law and reality, the racist outbursts" of some black leaders, the temptation toward violent retaliation, and much more.

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