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How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving

From an esteemed historian, a riveting group portrait of international journalists in the interwar period

The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of any nation today aren't lines on a map but columns in a census tabulation

The first biography of Missy Meloney, the most important woman you've never heard of

A leading progressive intellectual offers an agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond

From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" account of the revolution that created the modern world (Wall Street Journal)

Written to help the business person gain a grammatical advantage on his or her competition, "Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing" is a quick and complete guide to writing clear and concise e-mails, letters, and reports.

"a revealing look at the dark underbelly of our rapidly advancing electronics"-Salon.com

A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that is at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing.

An original and timely analysis of one of the country's most contentious issues: the hard right turn taken by the federal courts, and why balance must be restored to the judiciary branch

An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unravelling of the nation's first political dynasty

"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates

The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers.Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and coloniser, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire

A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic on creativity, essential for individuals and teams who want to think outside the box.

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated

An acclaimed economic historian describes how the postwar boom abruptly ended in the early 1970s, launching an era of political and financial turmoil that we're still living in today.

"[A] gem of a book... enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style."-Alison Weir, BBC History Magazine

A mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence-and why the odds of just about everything are better than we would think

The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region

Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Minds has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with a new introduction by the author, the book uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process,and to demonstrate how circumstance also plays an indispensable role in creative success.

Armies and empires, statesmen and tyrants--the acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox vividly recounts the history of two great civilizations and one thousand years that forged the Western world

A gripping memoir of coming of age in Mississippi in the Civil Rights era, and a startling look at the once secret files of the State Sovereignty Commission

A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project. A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, The Irony of Modern Catholic History reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.

An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful--and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans

A prize-winning historian offers a major new history of the United States, placing faith and oil at the center of America's rise to global power