Social science

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

by Anthony Everitt

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of...

Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

by Morgan Spurlock

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where...

Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today

by Edwin J. Feulner

Where did we take a wrong turn?

That’s what proud conservatives are asking. The era of liberal dominance is finally over, but sometimes you wouldn’t know it. Government spending is out of control, huge waves...

Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

by Patrick Radden Keefe

How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communication an effective means of predicting and preventing future attacks? These are some of the questions at the heart...

Recovery

by Peter J Dwyer

'Ours is proving to be one of those decisive periods of history in which a fundamental transformation of the human prospect is taking place.' In this book Peter Dwyer draws on expert studies to show how current...

Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

by John J. Miller & Mark Molesky

Liberté? Egalité? Fraternité? Or just plain gall?

In this provocative and brilliantly researched history of how the French have dealt with the United States, John J. Miller and Mark Molesky demonstrate that...

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

by Mahmood Mamdani

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that...

The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class

by Michael J. Casey

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic...

The Old American: A Novel

by Ernest Hebert

A long-awaited new novel set in the period of the French and Indian Wars brings a new dimension to the region's history

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

by Philip Dray

It is easy to shrink from our country’s brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation’s closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thousands...

Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem

by Stephen Hunter

Violent Screen is a confident walk on the rough side of movie-making with one of today's rarities: a gun enthusiast, bestselling novelist, and the son of a murder victim who, for the past thirteen years, has...

The Last of the Black Emperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders

by Jonetta Rose Barras

The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious obscenities at the woman who helped agents trap him, Barry was publicly...

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

by Sean Tejaratchi & Dunn Katherine

A detectives strange and gruesome scrapbook of photos.

Occupy

by Noam Chomsky & Stanley Rogouski

With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience

Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

by Vijay Prashad

The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

by Oran Hesterman

“An important, accessible book on a crucial subject. The author ... writes about reform efforts with contagious energy and palpable authority. Food for thought and action.” —The New York Times

A Time for Governing: Policy Solutions from the Pages of National Affairs

by Yuval Levin & Meghan Clyne

America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling...

Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis

by Malcolm Harris & Neal Gorenflo

A collection of messages from the front lines of the new “Lost Generation”

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill

by Daniel Imhoff & Michael Pollan

Our Chance to Right the Food System:

Every five to seven years, Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. To a large extent, the Farm Bill writes the rules and sets the playing field...

Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

by Emily Phd Craig

Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.

In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics...