A court divided

the rehnquist court end the future of constitucional law

Many think that the Rehnquist Court's most important division is between its liberals and its conservatives, when in reality the division lies between two types of Republican conservatives. Some#Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas#are in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party, while Kennedy ...

The Plot

The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over ...

Black earth

a journey through Russia after the fall

A brief history of the Human Race

The rise of american democracy

Jefferson to Lincoln

Wedding of the waters

the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation

The building of the Erie Canal in the first quarter of the nineteenth century is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington and Jefferson but also a huge ...

Out of gas

the end of the age of oil

Our rate of oil discovery has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; rather, it is certain to decline - perhaps rapidly - forever forward. Meanwhile, in the 20th century we have developed lifestyles firmly rooted in the promise of an endless, cheap supply. David Goodstein ...

Seal the deal

130 surefire negotiating strategies

War and the american presidency

Will in the world

how Shakespeare became Shakespeare

Chechnya

to the heart of a conflict

Media man

Ted Turner's improbable empire

The battle that stopped Rome

Emperor Augustus, arminius, and the slaughter of the legions in the Teutoburg forest

Khrushchev

the man and his Era

Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career ...

Respect

In a world of inequality

State power and world markets

the international political economy

Financial management

a primer

Financial Management: A Primer is a short and simple text that makes arcane financial data and reports crystal-clear for the nonfinance specialist. Designed to bring the reader up to speed on the basics of modern finance and the latest practices and techniques, Financial Management is ...

The roaring nineties

a new history of the world´s most prosperous decade

Turning his attention to the United States, Stiglitz argues that much of what we understood about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Although jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell and poverty was reduced, this book asserts that this decade actually laid the foundations ...

Fear's empire

war, terrorism, and democracy

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

Reinventing the bazaar

a natural history of markets

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they ...

America's art museums

a traveler's guide to great collections large and small

More than a practical guide, this text presents information not only on America's great museums but also on the history of art in America. It gives a tour of the physical spaces and the museums' most beloved or noteworthy works.