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The Strange Death of Europe

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, ...

The End of the History and the Last Man

Fukuyama's profound inquiry leads the reader to the question of whether humanity will eventually reach a stable state in which it is at l...

Generation Kill - Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasi...

Women Don't Owe You Pretty - The debut book from Florence Given

An accessible leap into feminism for people who are seeking to reshape and transform the way they view themselves. The debut book from an...

Fear - Trump in the White House

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. 'I think you've always been fair.' - President Donald J. Trump,...

Civilization - The West and the Rest

Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanita...

The World Is Flat 3.0 - A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Further Updated and Expanded)

A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman ce...

Ghost Wars - The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas ion to September 10, 2001

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of Ame...

Goodbye, Eastern Europe - An Intimate History of a Divided Land

"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chroni...

Nuclear War - A Scenario

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid p...

Operation Salam - László Almásy's Most Daring Mission in the Desert War

15. Mai 1942. Am Tag zuvor hätte die "Operation Salam" bereits in ihrer frühen Phase fast als Fehlschlag, gar in einer Katastrophe geende...

The Future of Geography

Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn't science fiction. It's a...

When China Rules the World - The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World

Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just b...

Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament-...

Speeches That Changed the World

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices o...

Democracy and Deficits

The persistence of fiscal imbalances in advanced and emerging economies alike belies the expectations of early globalization theorists ab...

Audrey Hepburn - The Illustrated World of a Style Icon

Elegantly enclosed by a hardback cover and ribbon, Megan's beautiful illustrations follow Hepburn through three distinct chapters: her ea...

Structures and Futures of Europe

At the time of the publication of this volume the European Union is facing its biggest crisis. The most apparent dimension of the current...

MI6 - The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

'Reads like the script for a Bond film' Mail on Sunday A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of th...

Conversations with Myself

"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decad...

Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the New York Times' Ten Best Boo...

Minority and Community - Studies on the History, Theory and Educational Policy of the Hungarian Minority of Transylvania

Historians of thought pursue their profession with the conviction that their particular areas of interest exclusively consist of ideas an...

The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe

Second, revised and extended edition In this second, revised an extended edition the evolution of emerging Europe is analyzed against the...

Madam Secretary

A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Sec...

Until We Are Free - My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

Born in 1947, Shirin Ebadi trained in law, obtained a doctorate from Tehran University and served as a judge from March 1969 - the first ...

Tombstone - The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes More people died in Mao's Great F...

Gorbachev - His Life and Times

' ... deeply penetrating history and engrossing psychological study.' Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs Magazine From the Pulitzer Prize-wi...

Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - From the 1960s to Platoon

*** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Sho...

The Picnic - An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

A gripping reconstruction of the escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and its momentous, world-changing af...

Empty Mansions - The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When P...

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics

Written by a team of leading political scientists, the Oxford Dictionary of Politics contains more than 1,700 entries, including new mate...

By the rivers of babylon

Stalin (political leaders of the twentieth century)

The great invasion

Contested Heritage - Jewish Cultural Property after 1945

In the wake of the Nazi regime's policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts...

Black GI Children in Post-World War II Europe

This volume addresses an issue that was until recently taboo: children fathered by Black American GIs who were stationed in Europe during...

Die Ukraine zwischen Russland und der Europäischen Union.

»Ukraine between Russia and the European Union«: For centuries the Ukrainians tried to make their way as an independent nation. It was no...

Inside congress

The fall of Japan

Tony Blair

The Parliament in Budapest

This splendid album guides readers along the entire building of Budapest's gigantic Parliament building accomodating Hungary's legislatur...

The Stasi Poetry Circle

Change We Can Believe in

The election of Barack Obama as President of the USA is a defining moment for all of us. After years of failed policies and a failed poli...

Lend-lease -Weapon for victory

A Soldier Reports

General Westmoreland combines a career biography with a personal history of the American military involvement in Vietnam since 1964

Everybody's political what's what?

Mussolini

The Last Heroes of Leningrad - Coping strategies of Siege survivors in Soviet and post-Soviet society

Alexandra Wachter investigates how survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-44) were able to come to terms with their memories in Soviet...

Human Rights, Trade and Diplomacy in the Greek-German Relaltions, 1967-1974

In 1967, a coup in Greece brought the military to power. Numerous relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece existed du...

The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe - National Perspectives in Comparison

The withdrawal of Soviet troops is a so far largely unresearched process of international political and military reorganization after 198...

Architecture of Dictatorship

Greece 1947-1967 - From Civil War to the Putsch on April 21, 1967

Greece 1947-1967 brings together contributions by Heinz A. Richter on the history of Greece from the time of the civil war to the coup d'...

Rebellion - The Shipyard Strikes in Poland and the Birth of Solidarnosc in August 1980

"Rebellion" is a fascinating, multi-threaded story about how revolutions unfold. The story begins when the communist authorities in Polan...

Britannien und Europa / Britain and Europe. - Entwicklungslinien und Zukunftsperspektiven vom Mittelalter bis in das 21. Jahrhundert / Developments and Future Prospects from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century.

Die vom 30. August bis zum 1. September 2018 im Coburger Stadtschloss Ehrenburg in Kooperation mit der Technischen Universität Chemnitz u...

The Berlin Wall - Division of a City

It was Sunday 13th August, 1961. At 1.11 a.m. the East Berlin radio service interrupted their "Night-time Melodies" for a special announc...

Bush at war

Liebe und tu, was du willst? - Die "Pillenenzyklika" Humanae vitae von 1968 und ihre Folgen.

Archäologie der Kirchenkrise: Das Buch zur Enzyklika »Humanae vitae«, durch die Papst Paul VI. 1968 die Empfängnisverhütung durch die »Pi...

Potsdam Conference 1945 - Shaping the World

A View into the book you can find under "http://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-547_PotsdamerKonferenz-engl" The Potsdam Conference marked-...

Imperium

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in ...

Inequality Knowledge - The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain

Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries - popular u...