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M Al GathafiThe Green Book is broken into three sections:The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People.The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism.The Social Basis of...

Deborah Frances-WhiteIn 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap,...

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn   The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II   Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his...

Barbara W TuchmanHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail,...

Allan FolsomNicholas Marten has come face to face with the world's most dangerous men---secret global alliances that go back centuries and involve those at the highest ranks of political power...

David Treuer A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of...

Erik DurschmiedFrom the wooden horse at Troy to a dropped package of cigars at Antietam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and...

George Steiner What is "the idea of Europe"? George Steiner names a few essential characteristics. Europe is café culture; Europe is a landscape travelled on foot. Europe is the ever-present...

Rebecca Skloot   Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of...

Hari KunzruPran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of a high...

Jay Solomon From the  Wall Street Journal  reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long...