New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize The explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. Rare. More
UK: Allen Lane, 2018. Trade Paperback. If you follow the news, the 21st century doesn't seem to be going so well. From 9/11 to the Great Recession, the Syrian civil war, the Ebola epidemic, growing inequality, racial unrest, and bitterly contested elections, the world seems to be sinking into chaos..... More
New York: Viking, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from..... More
London: Laurence King, 2018. Softcover. This timely sticker book brings together around 200 of the best protest stickers created by artists and activists around the world. Funny, irreverent, bold, and poignant, the stickers tackle key issues of acute concern today, including feminism, equality/LGBTQ rights, racism, nationalism, immigration, and asylum... More
London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Published on behalf of the European Science Foundation. More
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book/M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1992. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Revolution in its Leninist guise has been a dominant force in the world for most of the 20th century, and the Chinese revolution has been, with the Russian revolution, one of its two most..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1991. Softcover. Rare. Published annually since 1989, The Other Hong Kong Report is a review of the various aspects of development in Hong Kong in the past year by scholars and experts, who are not government officials, and is intended to offer an alternative..... More
New York: Puffin Books, 2018. Paperback. The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920..... More
New York: Penguin Random House, 2017. Bela Shayevich (tr.). Paperback. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Stephen Case (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Syd Goldsmith’s first taste of China’s Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It’s 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots and strikes, crippled transport, punishing water-rationing, takeover threats from Beijing and roadside bombs..... More
Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Part of the New Directions in Criminology series The author was a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. More
Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. Uncorrected page proofs. Paperback. **This copy contains uncorrected page proofs.** Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospects In this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: Illuminate YA Fiction, 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Adriana Nicu lives in the sheltered world of Bucharest, Romania, in the year 1987. Under the rule of Communist president Nicolae Ceaușescu, citizens of Bucharest live with the eyes and ears of the government ever present. Adriana’s future, which..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Contains a dedication signed by the author. At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor..... More
London: The School of Life, 2016. Stuart Patience (illustrations). Hardcover. Simple tools from 60 great thinkers throughout history to improve your life today. Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing..... More
See annotation, 1969. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of contents. From Amazon: The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are reported. Reporting from within the campaign for the first time..... More
New York: New Directions Book, 2007. Reissued as New Directions Paperback 1090. Fourth Printing. Paperback. An essential compendium for understanding Gandhi's profound legacy. "One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable."―Mahatma Gandhi The basic principles of Gandhi's..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. The book that created the modern United States. Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against the British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society - free from corruption and cronyism - which remains..... More
Newbury Park: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Joyce E. Chaplin (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration. This..... More
New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2019. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2005. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe..... More
London: Vintage, 2018. Paperback. Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the..... More
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