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Sedition
Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
This book explores Soviet prosecution records to tell the hidden story of ordinary citizens who were arrested for expressing discontent during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.
Savonarola
The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
A deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican by a leading Renaissance scholar Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine...
Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground
A concerned activist takes the conservation movement to task and shows us what we stand to gain when conservation succeeds Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people...
Fighting Windmills
Encounters with Don Quixote
Cervantes’ Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In Fighting Windmills Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully...
The Making of John Ledyard
Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler
During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert...
Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe
This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse...
Politics, Health, and Health Care
Selected Essays
Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama’s health...
Modernism
In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during which it thrived....
The Voice of the People
Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932
This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it features more than 150 previously unpublished...
The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the...