A Biography of the Fish that Changed the WorldThe Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions ...9999903054245Mark Kurlansky
London : Vintage, 1999
miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2023
Administering Economic, Social and Personal LifeThe literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Ni...9999903047841Peter Miller Nikolas Rose
Polity
sábado, 9 de diciembre de 2023
The Battle of Alamein in 1942 was of enormous political and military significance. It brought a sense of victory to Britain grown weary from defeat. As well as providing an overvie...9999903045069Jon Latimer
John Murray
jueves, 7 de diciembre de 2023
The incredible story of the search for one of Mao's lost children, set against the extraordinary backdrop of modern China. 'A son is very important in Chinese society, ' he had sai...9999903044963Richard Loseby
Editors Varis
jueves, 7 de diciembre de 2023
Oates discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Abraham Lincoln in this original and fascinating portrait of America's 16th president. "Stephen Oates re...9999903043072Stephen B. Oates
Plume
viernes, 1 de diciembre de 2023
The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His NationSir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial ...9999903040279Susan Williams
London Penguin 2007
miércoles, 29 de noviembre de 2023
The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the FutureBy the former Chairman of the Conservative Party and the last Governor of Hong Kong, this work offers an analysis of the Asian phenomenon and the future of economic and political l...9999903037170Chris Patten
Macmillan
viernes, 24 de noviembre de 2023
An Investigation Into the Origins of the Modern WorldIt was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed...9999903034087David Keys
Century
sábado, 14 de octubre de 2023
How the Republican Party Became Donald TrumpAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses to the reader that the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies... T...9999903007678Stuart Stevens
Bantam Press
sábado, 22 de julio de 2023
The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988. Interregnum, decline and collapse, 1973-1988, a political memoirBetween 1960 and 1988 Barry Sheppard worked at the heart of the Socialist Workers Party. The SWP played a crucial role in progressive struggles in the USA and the world socialist o...9999903004042Barry Sheppard
Editors Varis
lunes, 17 de julio de 2023
Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's FairThe Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, meant to herald the twentieth century, went tragically, spectacularly awry.In 1901, Buffalo was the eighth-largest city in the Uni...9999903000891Margaret Creighton
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 6 de julio de 2023
Ludwig II of Bavaria"Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; sometimes rendered as Louis II in English) (25 August 1845? 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. H...9999903000075Blunt, Wilfred
Penguin
miércoles, 5 de julio de 2023
A True Story of Men and WarThe last great secret of the Vietnam War is revealed in a gripping book that is the culmination of efforts for which the authors received a Pulitzer Prize for investigativereportin...9999902999387Michael Sallah Mitch Weis...
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 1 de julio de 2023
Notes George W. Bush's affiliations with Enron and big oil, presenting a tongue-in-cheek plan for ending his political career while charging political leaders with enabling a growi...9999902998151Moore, Michael
Warner Books
miércoles, 28 de junio de 2023
A Personal History of BurmaWhat do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growin...9999902986639Thant Myint-U
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
martes, 23 de mayo de 2023
On July 29, 1967, in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Vietnam, the USS Forrestal, the mightiest aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet, burst into flame. Seconds after a rocket, fired ...9999902986516Gregory A. Freeman
HarperCollins
sábado, 20 de mayo de 2023
Battle for the Huertgen, September 1944-January 1945"Surprisingly, little has been written about this bloody battle. Its beginning was overshadowed by Field Marshall Montgomery's audacious and ill-fated Operation Market Garden (Sept...9999902986325Gerald Astor
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de mayo de 2023
Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaA revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma...9999902984109Kathryn Edin H. Luke Shae...
Mariner Books
miércoles, 17 de mayo de 2023
Essays on the Strip Mining of American CultureWith vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist--including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, a...9999902983928Katharine Washburn John F...
W. W. Norton & Company
miércoles, 17 de mayo de 2023
The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious WomenThroughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a r...9999902982426Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
Putnam Adult
viernes, 12 de mayo de 2023
The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried HistoryThe United States went to war in Iraq to eliminate the threat from Saddam Hussein ??s weapons of mass destruction ??which turned out not to exist. As the war drags on, the strange ...9999902982228Mark Danner
NYRB Classics
viernes, 12 de mayo de 2023
Carmen Rangel is strong-willed and has a firm sense of her identity, despite being of mixed blood in the racially stratified society of colonial Mexico. Carmen is drawn more to the...9999902979808Tina Juarez
Arte Publico Press
viernes, 5 de mayo de 2023
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that ...9999902975459Primo Levi
Abacus
viernes, 21 de abril de 2023
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