Edited by Jesse Hagopian For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to...

Sonia Purnell Just Boris A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. January 1, 2012 by Aurum Press

John GrishamJohn Grisham has a new hero . . . and she’s full of surprisesThe year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is...

Devin O Pendas The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was the largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts. Drawing on a wide range of...

Edward Hallett Carr “Every historian, every economist, every Bolshevik even, owes Mr. Carr a debt of gratitude too deep to be formulated.” ―A.J.P. Taylor The second volume discusses the regime’s...

Ed West 'Insightful, poignant and at times hilarious' The TimesExploring why conservatives have lost almost every political argument since 1945, Ed West looks at this endless litany of failure from...

Peter Ackroyd Rich in detail and atmosphere, and told in vivid prose, Tudors, the second vollume in Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-volume history of England, recounts the transformation of England from a...

James Belich Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that...

Michael Bloch This work focuses on the life of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938 until the end of the Third Reich. At the heart of German power...

Tom Bower When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, he was, at 43, the youngest to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was...

Ernest K Gann The story of the successful siege of holdout revolutionaries in the year 73 C.E., ending the first Jewish insurrection against Rome. January 25, 1971 by Simon &...

Amos Oz The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these...