The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Alan Greenspan wielded more power than the presidents he worked for, from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to George Bush and his son. He was in the command room of the world economy for longer than any other single figure. One word from him..... More
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
Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Japan
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds..... 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
Democracy in America (The Henry Reeve Text as revised by Francis Bowen now further corrected and edited with a Historical Essay, Editorial Notes, and Bibliographies by Phillips Bradley) Volume II
New York: Vintage Books, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market Edition. V-111. 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
Chinese Democracy
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. More
China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. Books review of this title that appeared in Foreign Affairs magazine: Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:00am China's New Rulers: The Secret Files Lucian W. Pye Nathan has become the mail drop for secret..... More
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
London: Verso, 2016. First Printing. Paperback. Part of the Radical Thinker series One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton..... 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
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong
London: Scribe, 2019. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition..... 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
Assata: An Autobiography
London: Zed Books, 2014. With forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox Hinds. Reprint. Paperback. In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list. Assata Shakur's trial..... 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
