William Styron In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb....

Steven Greenberg Daniel Blum – scientist, father, soldier – lost more than he knows when the modern State of Israel fell following a massive earthquake and Iranian-led attack.Torn from family...

Lawrence Freedman Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the...

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild....

Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre What makes a man put political ambition before family? Ed Miliband shocked observers when he defeated his brother David in the contest to lead the...

Marc H Ellis "Marc Ellis is a brilliant writer, a deeply thoughtful and courageous mind." Edward Said "[Ellis provides] a vital contribution to solving one of the few remaining intractable...

Laura Secor “Deeply moving…A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history.” – The Wall Street JournalThe drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at...

Alexandria Richie The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This account recalls the tragedy from both German and Polish perspectives and asks why, when...

Norman Davies This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to...

Fran Abrams As recently as 100 years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked grueling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual...

Bat Ye'or The scope and the theme of the book is to analyze the modern political trends and strategies that are leading to major changes in Western civilization, America included,...

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...