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In China's Shadow
The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship
“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the twenty-first century."—Vice President Al GoreThis book begins with an eye-opening exploration of the rise of China’s economy and an assessment of its...
Nearest Thing to Heaven
The Empire State Building and American Dreams
A new perspective on a beloved cultural icon, its place in our history, and its meaning in the American imagination This elegantly written appreciation of the Empire State Building opens up the building’s...
The Wise Virgins
A new edition of Leonard Woolf’s satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group?The Wise Virgins (1914),...
Brighton and Hove
Pevsner City Guide
This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of Brighton and Hove, the greatest of England's seaside resorts. A series of walks trace its development from late medieval fishing settlement to the "Queen...
The Myth of Judicial Activism
Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions
Can the Constitution change with the times without forsaking the framers’ original intent? This carefully considered book is a welcome addition to the debate over “judicial activism.” Constitutional scholar...
A Treatise of Civil Power
A major gathering of new work by one of the greatest poets of the English language Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state...
Terror by Quota
State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)
This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people...
Learning to Forget
Schooling and Family Life in New Haven’s Working Class, 1870-1940
This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, Connecticut. Through the lenses of history, sociology, and education,
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the...
History's Greatest Heist
The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks
How Lenin’s regime turned Russia’s priceless cultural patrimony into armored cars, trains, planes, and machine guns Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How...