Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident-Victor Serge is one of the most compelling figures to have emerged from the history of the Soviet Union.
One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff's story is generally understood to be that of an ambitious, accomplished progressive politician and writer, whose work and thought fit within an enlightened political tradition valuing human rights and diversity.
The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Ch,vez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs.
"e;A delightful and delicious tribute to Churchill's heroic appetite for wining, dining and politicking"e; - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat.
Birhan Woldu became one of the most recognized faces and forms of the late 20th century after her skeletal image was broadcast at the end of Live Aid to publicize famine in Africa.
Three years after the advent of Zimbabwe,s Inclusive Government in February 2009, the country still awaits the elections that people hope will lead to a more enduring political settlement.
It has been said before that Africa is one of the richest continents in the world but the poorest and colonialism was blamed for Africa's problems before the continent was liberated.
For nearly ten years - indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency - Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political stage.
A debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the epic trail of Thomas Jefferson.
DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN SLAVEThis classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration (1913-1921) was marked not only by America's participation in World War I, but also by numerous armed interventions by the United States in other countries.
With Joe Biden stepping back into the national scene, the time is ripe for a close assessment of the administration in which he served as vice-president.
This book is about a shocking revelation of a sovereign country- Uganda, which is under abominable siege, by a foreign occupation army from Rwanda, with its diabolic criminal gang, who entered Uganda as refugees, including the so-called General Yoweri Museveni.
The book is a nonfiction, storytelling memoir, narrated by the author himself from his personal immigration dilemmas in terms of early migration experiences to Canada, his ensuing struggles for establishing legal status and equally striving to fit into the Canadian society, through the process of integration.
As the country fights against injustice in the criminal department, there has also been an unspoken injustice brewing in the family court system for way too long.
Die Weltmacht Amerika nach der Ära Trump: eine fundierte Analyse vom Leiter des ZDF-Studios Washington Als Elmar Theveßen "Die Zerstörung Amerikas" verfasste, waren die US-Präsidentschaftswahlen noch in vollem Gang.
Through the postwar collective innocence of the 1950s and sucked into the swirling vortex of the 1960s counterculture in Washington DC, the author, troubled son of a war hero, finds himself in the middle of Martin Luther King's "e;I Have a Dream"e; speech, the Beatles' first American concert, and facing the draft, at the gates of Richard Nixon's White House in time of war.
This book is not only about my career as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, but about all the facts regarding how someone born into the lowest financial class in our country could navigate around and through the great white sharks in life without remaining in the lowest class as a human being on this earth.
Desde la perspectiva histórico-filosófica iniciada por Michel Foucault (genealogía arqueológica), este libro se esfuerza por describir un archivo histórico particular a la historia colombiana y latinoamericana, pero también por narrar esas vidas infames que han padecido las prácticas de dicho archivo.
American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the dangerous tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our national politics, including at the current political moment.
