Christopher Lazarski - The Lost Opportunity.jpg
In The Lost Opportunity, Lazarski explores these facets of the anti-Bolshevik struggle, which have been almost entirely ignored by historical scholarship. Christopher Lazarski is Professor of History and Politics at Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw, ...

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Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, tells his story for the first time and presents an insider's look the group and its protest events--including the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee--enhanced by dramatic photographs.A compelling account of one of the most ...

David M. Tucker - The Decline of Thrift in America.jpg
This unique history studies the concept of thrift as a driving cultural and economic force in America. From the beginning of our nation's history, with the Puritan and Protestant work ethics, through the 1950s, thrift was considered an important virtue, both with regard to ...

Peter Connolly - Aníbal y los enemigos de Roma (1981).jpg
Hannibal and the enemies of Rome. Discusses the part played by the Etruscans, Samnites, Carthaginians, and Celts in Roman and Italian history. Includes an account of Hannibal's march and much description of the armor and weapons of the period.

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Using a new system of underwater exploration technology, the author and his team have located the Bismarck off the Atlantic coast of France. In a first person account of his work, the author recounts the history of the German warship "Bismarck".

Doris Rubenstein - The Good Corporate Citizen.jpg
Corporate citizenship refers to the way a company integrates basic social values with everyday business practices, operations and policies. A corporate citizenship company understands that its own success is intertwined with societal health and well being. ...

Ramzy Baroud - My Father Was a Freedom Fighter.jpg
The frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Gaza is constantly reported as a place of violence and terror. Ramzy Baroud's memoir explores the daily lives of the people in that turbulent region: the complex human beings -- revolutionaries, mothers ...

Simon Pirani - Change in Putin's Russia. Power.jpg
Simon Pirani investigates the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and his successor Dmitry Medvedev. Profiling the Putin team, including contingents from the security services and pro-market economic ...

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The Israeli offensive in Gaza was described by Amnesty international as "22 days of death and destruction." Sharyn Lock's eye-witness account brings home the horror of life in Gaza beneath the bombs.Lock went to the Gaza strip as volunteer, thinking the greatest danger she ...

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From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream—and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every ...

Barbarians! - Kathryn Hinds - Vikings (2010).jpg
Gr 9 Up-To read this title is to alter forever mythical perceptions of Viking heroes. The clearly written text avoids romanticizing, yet presents an engrossing, if not glamorous, picture of the Viking era. Hence, while readers may be impressed by the artistic skill, ...

Waldemar Łysiak - Ostatnia Kohorta (2005).jpg
Schyłek VI wieku naszej ery. Imperium Rzymskie dogorywa. Broni się jeszcze tylko stolica (miasto Rzym), oblężona po raz ostatni już przez plemiona barbarzyńców. Pierścień oblężenia przebija grupa straceńców, pragnąca odszukać mityczny "ostatni ...

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In this provocative study, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion. In his long teaching career, Atwood has found that most students know virtually nothing about America's involvement in the ...

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" Les relations entre la Chine et les Etats-Unis vont façonner le XXIe siècle " : par cette déclaration, Barack Obama annonçait il un " pacte faustien ", prix à payer pour sortir de la grande crise mondiale ? La décennie qui vient de s'achever a mis au jour les liens ...

Rafik Smati - Vers un capitalisme féminin (2010).jpg
La crise que traverse notre civilisation a montré les limites d'un modèle de pensée axé sur la conquête à outrance et la recherche de satisfactions immédiates. Et si cette crise était celle du masculin ? La testostérone, l'hormone mâle, explique-t-elle les ...

Anna Politkovskaya - A Small Corner of Hell.jpg
Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and warlords. A ...

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In his introduction, Alexander V. Obolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who possess enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources and a great literary and scientific heritage, proven ...

Wielkie Bitwy II Wojny Światowej - Steven J. Zaloga - Polska 1939.jpg
"Wielkie Bitwy II Wojny Światowej" to seria 50 książek poświęconych najważniejszym walkom największego konfliktu zbrojnego w historii. Znajdą tu państwo szczegółowe opisy najważniejszych bitew i kampanii, zilustrowane mapami przedstawiającymi ...

Edward S. Steinfeld - Playing Our Game (2010).jpg
Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular.Not so, writes ...

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Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book ...

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The first authoritative history of hedge funds-from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, More Money Than God tells ...

Obamavilles In America - Homeless woman at a tent city in Sacramento.jpg
In the depression of the1890s, the term for a breadline was a Cleveland Cafe, named after the Wall Street puppet who turned the government over to JP Morgan, London, and their cross of gold.In the 1930s, a shanty town was a Hooverville.In this depression, the wretched victims ...

Mark Jickling - Barriers to Corporate Fraud (2009).jpg
The collapse of Enron Corp. in the fall of 2001 had a peculiar side effect: accounting became front page news. For the next year, accounting fraud at a long series of "Fortune" 500 companies made headlines. The worst cases led to spectacular bankruptcies, mass layoffs, and ...

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The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. ...

Michael Lewitt - The Death of Capital.jpg
In The Death of Capital, respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt looks at how the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short-term speculation rather than industrial expansion in recent years. These disastrous ...

Peter Nowak - Sex.jpg
War, porn and fast food - these are three of the most maligned facets of our civilization, and rightly so - war is responsible for untold human suffering and death; porn is often deemed responsible for everything from marital infidelity to the erosion of society's morals; and ...

David P. Calleo - Follies of Power.jpg
The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision. Chapters 2 and 3 of this ...

Andrzej Paczkowski - The Spring Will Be Ours.jpg
"Writing in elegant prose, Paczkowski makes persuasive comments and judgments about this half century of Poland’s history. The Spring Will Be Ours is a masterly work." —John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago"A must-read for anyone interested in ...

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