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In an era of corporate overreach when consumers have never been more vulnerable to digital surveillance, unsafe food, and dangerously faulty produ...

Once considered among the best and brightest of his generation, Donald Rumsfeld left office as the most controversial Defense Secretary since Rober...

It is no exaggeration to say that without Sid Caesar, comedy in America would have been a lot less funny. He was the star and guiding force behind ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khm...

When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating ...

In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the forces tha...

Before the "Big Three," even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical. Car Cr...

Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century. In this companion volume to Th...

When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain “neutral” countries were all too willing to assist them. By the en...

A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contempora...

The epitome of effervescence and centerpiece of celebration, Champagne has become a universal emblem of good fortune, and few can resist its sparkl...

Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had m...

Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brut...

James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley ...

“Amazingly appealing… This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons.”—Washington Post In the early nineteenth century the major English ...

"Never give in!" Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: "This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never." What ...

Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens? Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, ...

In this intimate and unforgettable portrait of modern Tehran, a foreign affairs journalist reveals the extraordinary passions and intrigues hidden ...

The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its ec...

A powerful argument for a class-based approach to college admissions that “shows where we have gone wrong so far, and how we will get to justice, e...

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. ...

On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunn...

One of the UK's most experienced and respected diplomats reveals the inside story behind his resignation—and his perspective on the challenges of B...