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“The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale.” —Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of independence.While their plan was audacious and complex, and involved moving their 50,000-strong army by land and sea across three-quarters of the earth’s expanse, their commitment to fight for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied London, Paris, and Washington.On their journey across Siberia, a brawl erupted at a remote Trans-Siberian rail station that sparked a wholesale rebellion. The marauding Czecho-Slovak Legion seized control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and with it Siberia. In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.British prime minister David Lloyd George called their adventure “one of the greatest epics of history,” and former US president Teddy Roosevelt declared that their accomplishments were “unparalleled, so far as I know, in ancient or modern warfare.”

Award winning-journalist Radley Balko illustrates the persistent and historic plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science on our criminal justice system through the story of two death row inmates finally freed after their wrongful conviction based on the testimony of a controversial medical examiner.

This brilliant and witty distillation of financial knowledge into pithy aphorisms will appeal widely " to newbies looking to dip their toes into investing waters and to Wall Street gnomes who will appreciate Zweig's sharp insight.

Every president is offered a daily report-the President's Daily Brief, or PDB-detailing the most secret activities of the intelligence services and their analysis of global threats. This is the story of what presidents over the last half-century learned, from a CIA insider during the Clinton and Bush administrations.

The crowdfunding expert known as "The Crowdsourceress"-who is hugely successful and has some of the biggest and most famous Kickstarter campaigns in her portfolio-writes the definitive guide for anyone looking to raise money for a creative endeavor, product, or cause.

A survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing shows how being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to unexpectedly beautiful things, how traumas in our lives can lead to the most life-affirming moments, the biggest adventures, and the most important relationships.

The incredible exploits of a mountaineer and adventurer who tracks climate change in extreme locations also illustrates how humans will adapt and survive in increasingly unstable environments.

With unprecedented access to leaders of China's premier private businesses, an all-star team from the Wharton School and China Europe International Business School provide personal details into how these people have created and built world-class companies - and what leaders of Western businesses need to know to compete against these juggernauts

A dramatic narrative history of the people and opinions that gave rise to hysteria in Charleston, South Carolina's secession and sparked the Civil War.

A colorful, behind-the-scenes journey through the past and present of the legendary, first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, one of the most idiosyncratic events on the road to the White House

The causes and consequences of the Crash of 1929 and the years of financial catastrophe that followed are a social and economic drama of global proportions, here brilliantly reconceived by Charles Morris, a former banker and veteran financial soothsayer described as "our leading narrative historian of economic success and scandals."

The in-house sociologist at a nationally renowned haunted house explores the experience of fear - what causes it, and why we seek it out.

The editorial director and cofounder of Bitch magazine tells the story of feminism over the last 40 years, charting its decline from a political movement with real feminist role models and ideals into a self-centered, commercial, and ultimately powerless trend focused only on personal enrichment and reliant on feel-good platitudes.

A leading expert in cyberspace policy shows how governments are waging war online-and the chilling implications for geopolitics, economic stability, and national security.

A remarkable journey to the rustbelts of America and northern Europe, the unlikely new hotspots of innovation, where making things smart (not cheap) is the competitive advantage that is turning globalization on its head.

The former deputy mayor of New York City tells the story of the city's comeback after 9/11, offering lessons in resiliency under the most trying of circumstances, and a model for the rejuvenation of any city.

One of the country's preeminent experts on charitable giving tells the story of the philanthropic boom, led by a new generation of Silicon Valley billionaires, and their transformative and disruptive potential.

A former hostage in the tribal areas of Pakistan returns to meet his kidnappers and uncover how political kidnappings and ransomings take place in the shadows of the world's most lawless territories.

Weaving history, journalism, and memoir, the author of The Accidental Asian explores the parallel rise of China and the Chinese American, the means by which Chinese immigrants have excelled despite the constraints of racism and xenophobia, and how they are rewriting the American story.

A popular writer, blogger, and Middle East scholar analyzes the disastrous collapse of the Middle East and America's future role there, and shows why the best case for Syria is that it becomes a country with the same standards of safety and prospects as Somalia.

The social history of the back-to-the-land movement, a key moment in the US culture of the late'60s and early'70s, told through the prism of a small group of hopeful idealists who turned their backs on the city and, with no prior training or skills, moved their lives and dreams to the woods and meadows.

A stirring narrative history of the political manoeuvring and infighting that took place among the Founding Fathers, epitomized in the revolutionary life of Governor, Chief Justice, and last signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.

A spirited insider's account of the most controversial foreign policy decisions of Obama's administration, and definitive treatise on why Obama's foreign policy legacy will be regarded as one of the most successful of the last half century.

The inside story of the delicate alliance between US and Israel: what has pushed it to the brink of dissolution and how both countries must salvage some sort of relationship in order to safeguard against a perilous future-from a former presidential adviser and Middle East analyst.

The charismatic, connected, and controversial former president of the Service Employees International Union takes on our biggest economic challenge-the fundamental restructuring of the economy that is decoupling the engine of prosperity from the jobs and income people need-and convincingly shows why the time has come for a universal basic income.

A former director at the CDC takes us behind quarantine lines and inside the fight to contain Ebola, SARS, anthrax, and the most important threat facing humankind: the next deadly pandemic.

The impact of Latino Americans has begun to be felt, but it is just beginning. Over the next generation they will transform the face of American politics. Now two leading Latino researchers explain what Latino America that transformation means for everyone.