Self-Determination

From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War....

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of listeners new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing....

Medea Benjamin researches the sinister nature of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. In seven succinct chapters followed by a meditation on prospects for change, Benjamin shines a light on one of the most perplexing elements of American foreign policy....

Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....

In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....

In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable....

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

This magnificent volume offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe's most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman....

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, and one of the most enigmatic....

In Heroic Conservatism, Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic in its aspirations....

The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more....

In this third volume of her memoirs, Eleanor Roosevelt, perhaps the best-loved woman of her time, shares the experiences—private and public—of her life in the 13 years since the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it, and how their achievements continue to shape our world today....

An Independent Empire tells the stories of the people who defined the history of America's international relationships. Throughout the book are entertaining vignettes of intellectuals, spies, diplomats, and statesmen whose actions shaped the first 50 years of the United States....

In this essential new book, Vali Nasr argues that the Obama administration had a chance to improve its relations with the Middle East....

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime....

Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history....