The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
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Masters of the Dream: The Strength and Betrayal of Black America
New York: William Morrow, 1995. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
The Globalization Myth
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. More
Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances..... More
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World
London: William Collins, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Five hundred years ago a stubborn German monk challenged the Pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion toppled governments, upended social norms and transformed millions of people’s understanding of their relationship..... More
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by John William Ward In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers..... More
World Masters Texts Library: The Federalist Papers (Chinese REVIEW illustrated edition) (Set of 2 Volumes)
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
Advise and Consent
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1967. Arthur Shilstone (drawings); Saul Bass (design). Seventh Printing. Paperback. From the website of the U.S. website: The all-time best seller among Washington political fiction, Advise and Consent remained on the New York Times best seller list for a then-unprecedented 102 weeks. The book..... More
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship..... More
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of..... More
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months – not only in the Uk, but in the Us, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been..... More
Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America
New York: Hyperion, 2004. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. First American Edition. Softcover. From the book: 'Paris was fond of stormy weather and emerging toads; the thirst for knowledge was supreme, and the first to read and reread the news were the first to render it with criticism. Authors and readers, great..... More
The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics Before the French Revolution
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Claudia Meiville (tr). Second Printing. Softcover. In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel use..... More
While Reagan Slept
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. Steve Mendelson (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Art Buchwald is one of the leading Ronald Reagan watchers in America. While other Reagan watchers have observed the President while he is awake, Buchwald is the only one who has caught Mr. Reagan while he was..... More
"You Can Fool All of the People All the Time"
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "You Can Fool All of the People All the Time" -- but you can only fool Art Buchwald half the time. In this, his twenty-first book, Mr. Buchwald takes another look at the Reagan administration, to see if it..... More
The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements
London: Rider, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside the country now that..... More
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise
London: Canongate Books Ltd, 2009. Reprint. Includes the Inaugural Address and 8 other key speeches. More
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1940. First Pocket Book Edition. Paperback. More
A New Israel: Democracy in Crisis 1973-1988
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Collection of essays. More
Face of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Gun Larson (jacket design). First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (7 Sept 1990): A collection of 12 essays on ""the background, origins, character, and legacy"" of the American Revolution, filled with the grace and insight that has made Bailyn (Adams University..... More
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This book" Mr. Bailyn writes, "depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment" It is at the same time a dramatic account..... More
Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy
London: White Lotus UK, 1990. Second Edition. Paperback. Rare edition. More
Autobiography
London: Routledge, 2000. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and..... More
