Jasper Ridley For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a...

Masha Gessen Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardsWinner of the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book AwardNamed a Best...

AK ShevchenkoIt has been twenty-five years since the four friends left school, burdened with the dark secret of a game that ended in tragedy. Now, driven by love, loss and...

Serhii Plokhy 'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the...

Chaim Potok"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his...

The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Alan M. Dershowitz From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties...

Doris Lessing A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois...

Jay M Shapiro A somewhat sardonic political analysis of life in the modern State of Israel. January 1, 1996 by E.C.A.

John Kenneth GalbraithOf Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has...

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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,...