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A wonderfully illuminating and witty guide to every -ism you could ever want explained. Entries include every -ism under the sun, from Absurdism to Militarism to Zoroastrianism.

No one could have predicted even two years ago that an African American would take the oath of office as president of the United States in January of 2009. For many, the occasion marks the climax to the civil rights movement and the fulfillment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream that Americans could be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin. This collection, with about 400 letters from Americans of all walks of life, is being created to stand as a symbol of this exciting moment in history.

“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.” For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment—which they were mostly absent from at the time...

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island 90 miles to the south.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick—a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement.” —The Boston Globe Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Set in the year 2163, DESTINY ONE: Search for the Sacred Code is a well-crafted heroic story of struggle for political and cultural dominance, set in a dystopian future across various planets. If you crave action-adventure, nuanced world-building, and...

Landing in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong on December 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant. The US Department of Justice accused Meng of fraud and bypassing sanctions against Iran. Nine days later, in an act...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres, ending in a...

The Federalist Papers were first published in 1787 in the New York press under the signature of "Publius", a psuedonym used by the three authors: John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. The essays appeared in book form in 1788 and are generally considered to be one of the most important contributions to political thought made in America. The papers were meant to be influential in the campaign for the adoption of the Constitution by New York state. The authors discussed many general problems of politics in addition to the issues of the Constitution.

De 1995 à 2007, le Président de la République rythme ses mandats de discours présentant ses ambitions et ses résultats. Il donne à notre diplomatie sa ligne de conduite pour les guerres de Bosnie, de Yougoslavie, d'Afghanistan et d'Irak. Il accompagne le pays pour le passage à l'euro et l'élargissement de l'Europe ; il inaugure le musée du quai Branly.

Khelina Cunningham es una mujer brillante, marcada por heridas que se esconden tras una coraza de control y perfección. En el vibrante y competitivo mundo político de Washington D. C., cada paso, cada elección, puede cambiarlo todo. Hugo Harper lo sabe bien. Ambicioso, influyente y enigmático, ha aprendido que confiar puede ser su mayor debilidad… hasta que la conoce a ella.

Blitz reveals the attacks made against Trump have been the most brutal ever mounted against a sitting president of the United States. Blinded by deep-seated hatred of his person and his policies, the left even desperately tried to oust Trump in a failed impeachment bid. Horowitz shows that their very attacks — targeting a man whose mission has been to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again” backfired, turning Trump himself into a near martyr while igniting the fervor of his “base.”

Autor podrózniczej ksiazki "Dziesiec bram swiata" zjezdzil niemal caly Trzeci Swiat i przezyl dramatyczne chwile. Sposród setek miejsc i dziesiatek zapierajacych dech w piersiach przygód - wybral dziesiec, które wywarly na nim najwieksze wrazenie. Zabiera czytelnika na krance swiata pokonujac granice, których nie ma na mapach. Dociera na Jawe, by towarzyszyc górnikom wydobywajacym w skrajnie niebezpiecznych warunkach siarke z dna czynnego wulkanu. Przenosi sie do Indii, gdzie atakuje go nozownik i spotyka przerazajacych zebraków oraz "swietych mezów".

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles, written between 1897 and 1888, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. They serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outline the philosophy and motivation of the proposed system of government.

Dies ist Paul Austers sehr persönliche Abrechnung mit der Vergottung des Waffentragens in der amerikanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft. Er erzählt davon zunächst in biografischen Vignetten, beginnend bei den Spielzeugcolts der Kindheit und den Western im Fernsehen. Es folgen die ersten Einschläge im näheren Umfeld, der von der Großmutter erschossene Großvater - lange Zeit ein Familiengeheimnis, von dem Auster nur durch Zufall erfuhr.

Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing; American writing....

Every day, President Obama received 10,000 letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read 10 of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation. They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, with anger, fear and respect. To Obama is an intimate look at one man's relationship with the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between...

Ohne Frage: Wir stehen näher am globalen Kollaps als die meisten glauben. Schade nur, dass in Politik und Wirtschaft immer noch meist diejenigen das Sagen haben, die am allerwenigsten dazu geeignet sind. In Zeiten von Klimawandel, Artensterben, Atombomben, Überbevölkerung, multiresistenten Keimen und unregulierten Finanzmärkten ist das eine Katastrophe.