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John Locke: A Biography
by Maurice CranstonThis is a biography of John Locke who died in 1704. The author has written the biography based on Lovelace Collection as principal source which contained nearly three thousand letters and about a thousand miscellaneous manuscripts. These include accounts, which, because Locke was always careful with money, are unusually detailed; library lists; notebooks containing entries on philosophy, politics, literature, science, theology, economics and colonial administration; several more elaborate manuscripts on the same subjects; recipes, inventories, certificates of various kinds, and ten volumes of Locke's journal.
The Age of Jackson
by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.This readable history presents the complicated issues and events which characterize Jackson's presidency. It is a readable history.<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
by Raghuram G. Rajan Luigi ZingalesAnalysis of our Economy during the past century.
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
by Richard T. RodriguezAs both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s.
The Hunt for Bin Laden
by Robin Moorespecial forces operations in afghanistan, particularly those of task force daggar
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
by Warren BassHow the Kennedy administration cultivated the Israelis.
Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo
by David Grossman Haim WatzmanEssays about Israel's (and the world's) problems.
Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators
by Riccardo Orizio Avril BardoniFirst-hand accounts.
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
by Noah FeldmanHow do we make democratic nations?
Diary of Samuel Pepys -- Volume 01: Preface and Life
by Samuel PepysRichard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appetite for living. “As a human document the Diary is literally unique,” notes Le Gallienne. “It will have a still greater value for its historical importance.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World
by Charles P. GravesBiography of Eleanor Roosevelt for children
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilevich GogolIn a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a gentleman.
McCarthy and his Enemies: The Record and its Meaning
by L. Brent Bozell William F. Buckley Jr.Balanced analysis of McCarthy's career.
Farm Policies of the United States, 1790-1950: A Study of Their Origins and Development
by Murray R. BenedictThis volume is an almost essential complement to the new Fund study of the more recent governmental activities in the field of agriculture. Only through a knowledge of their historical roots can come a thorough understanding of present policies and programs.
Power in Washington: A Critical Look at Today's Struggle to Govern in the Nation's Capital
by Douglass CaterU.S. politics from a reporter's point of view.
Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda
by Thomas PowersDescribes covert operations since World War II.
Still Hungry in America
by Robert ColesBefore a child is born he has already lived a life; and when he is born he comes into more than the immediate world of his mother's arms. Not all pregnant women can take food and vitamins for granted, or a gynecologist to tell them they are indeed pregnant or an obstetrician to watch them and care for them and eventually deliver them a healthy son or daughter. For that matter, not all pregnant women can take for granted clean, running water, or a home that is warm in winter and reasonably free of germ-bearing flies and mosquitoes in summer. Nor can some pregnant women forget about rats and cockroaches, or garbage that is ignored by local "authorities," or sewage that is not adequately drained away.These are American women, American mothers, American children.
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed ZakariaWhat we need to do to maintain true democracy.
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy
by Paul HendricksonThe true story of a racial murder in the South.
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
by Jean Bethke ElshtainAnalysis of the demands arising from the terror of 9-11.
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
by Kenneth Conboy James MorrisonBased on conversations with those involved and surviving documentation.