Books from Public Affairs
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Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore
By John TaliaferroIt proves that the best American stories are not simple; they are complex and contradictory, at times humorous, at other times tragic.
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Fire In The Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
By Osha Gray Davidson, Osha DavidsonBeautifully written, intellectually provocative, Fire in the Turtle House reveals how emerging diseases wreaking havoc in the global ocean pose an enormous, direct threat to humanity. This is science journalism at its best.
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Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
By Murray GreenbergPassing Game rediscovers this little-known sports hero and tells the story of Friedman's evolution from upstart to American celebrity, in a vivid narrative that will delight and enlighten football fans of all ages.
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On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
By Tyler Drumheller, Elaine MonaghanIn this eye-opening book, former CIA division chief Tyler Drumheller explores the gradual erosion of the agency's independence over the past 30 years, witnessing its decline through the prism of his own experiences.
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
By Jonathan GreenA journalist investigates a cold-blooded murder at a Mt. Everest base camp in Chinese-occupied Tibet, a probe during which he learns about the lawless world in the shadows of the world's tallest peaks.
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The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace
By Charles M. Sennott, M SennottIn The Body and the Blood, Charles M. Sennott examines the dwindling Christian communities of the modern Middle East in search of answers to the following questions: Why is Christianity dying out in the land where it began?
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To End a Plague: America's Bold Quest to Defeat AIDS in Africa
By Emily BassYet the program has persevered and made an enormous improvement in millions of lives. This is the story of true change and what it takes to make it"--
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The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
By Marc LynchMarc Lynch's last book, "The Arab Uprising", described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible.
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Rodeo Queens: On The Circuit With America's Cowgirls
By Joan Burbick... 184 "Mutton Dressing," 190-192 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (movie), 177 National Finals Rodeo, 5, 139, 170, 171 Native Americans. See Indians Newspapers, 1-2, 24, 157-158 Nez Perce Brennan's respect and knowledge of, ...
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2001
By Harold M. Evans, M EvansHe said, "Bob is extremely hardworking, extremely loyal, honorable, a great parent, a brilliant wine taster. But he just doesn't get excited by business. ... He'll change the subject to when we can get together and go eat dim sum.
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
By Nate Blakeslee" "Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle to reverse the convictions that caught the attention of the nation in the spring of 2003.
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Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
By Derek W. BlackAnd today, such a commitment is sorely lacking. Schoolhouse Burning shows what is at stake: not just the right to public education as guaranteed by the constitution, but an erosion of democratic norms"--
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The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
By Ira ShapiroDescribes the statesmen who participated in the last glory days of the Senate, describing their leadership through the crisis years of the 1970s before the 1980 election signaled the start of a period of diminished effectiveness.
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Last Call at the Oasis: The Global Water Crisis and Where We Go from Here
By Participant MediaFrom the company that brought you Food, Inc. and Waiting for “Superman”: This companion book to the documentary film explores the looming crises surrounding the world’s most essential, most threatened, resource
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
By Marc LewisA neuroscientist tells the story of his youth spent as a drug addict, while using the specific example of his own story to help explain drug use and addiction in general from a scientific standpoint.
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The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First...
By Nicholas BestFollows the events that led up to this historic cease-fire, including the week of negotiations, military offensives, and the thousands of additional casualties, that brought a final conclusion to one of the deadliest wars in the twentieth ...
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined AmericaÕs Role in the World
By Derek CholletSee Kagan's comment in Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place? The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy (Anansi, 2015), p 68. 4. Obama's maternal grandparents, who raised him for several years, were from Kansas. 5.
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A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China
By Pin He, Pin Ho, Wenguang HuangDocuments the scandalous corruption of the Bo Xilai family while offering insight into its implications at the height of a transformational power shift in China, drawing on high-level sources and insider information to cover such topics as ...
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The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them
By Robin M. Hogarth, Emre SoyerBut while we value and trust experience above all else, we overlook its inherent downfalls. In The Myth of Experience, Hogarth and Soyer explore why a reliance on experience can ultimately hinder individual and societal decision-making.
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Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
By Lily GeismerWe've seen skyrocketing income inequality, huge discrepancies between the haves and have-nots, and growing poverty in America. This is the story of how we got ourselves into this mess, and where we can go from here.