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The Radical Bourgeoisie
A reassessment of the role of French Radicals as thinkers and politicians.
Wallis's War
This faux "memoir" of WWII written in the voice of Wallis Simpson is a flight of fancy based on some fascinating history. It is hilarious and satirical, well researched and suggestive. The author's premise in this novel is that "the Abdication of Edward VIII was not just the world s great good luck. The marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, a foreign commoner with two living husbands was not the love of the century. I say it was a bloodless coup, carefully plotted by British statesmen." The novel takes the form of Wallis Simpson s War Memoir and imagines how she might have been encouraged to marry Edward VIII, and was then used to influence the Italian Count Ciano."
The Great Escape
Dorothy D. Johnson's The Great Escape: Background and Memoirs of the Liberian Civil War is an intriguing account of the years of deteriorating living conditions and political stalemate that gave rise to the Liberian Civil War. It reveals a woman and her family's plight and struggle for survival amidst shooting, bombing and the mental and physical torture carried out by gun toting and drug-addicted rebels. The memoirs unfold the daily encounters and struggles in the bushes, village and church. It also shows the author's deep faith in the Lord coupled with her perseverance and resilience in the face of discouragement, as she and her family trudged along slowly to safety and eventually into freedom.
Educating All Children
Experts illuminate the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education, discussing the importance and difficulties not only of expanding access to education and but also of improving the quality of education.
Adam Smith
'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the Year Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom of the individual? Or a prime mover of 'market fundamentalism' and an apologist for inequality and human selfishness? Or something else entirely? Jesse Norman's brilliantly conceived \book gives us not just Smith's economics, but his vastly wider intellectual project. Against the turbulent backdrop of Enlightenment Scotland, it lays out a succinct and highly engaging a...
Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
"A little-know figure now, Sir Henry Dobbs was at the heart of Britain's imperial administrations of Iraq and India in the twilight decades of the Empire. Drawing upon a recently discovered trove of meticulous records and correspondence, in this book Ann Wilks reconstructs the professional life of this career civil servant and Britain's longest serving High Commissioner of Iraq to give a unique picture of life in Britain's most important colony and one of its most newly acquired. The book reveals the nuts and bolts workings of colonial administration, as Dobbs in his letters details the problems Britain encountered as it conquered the former Ottoman province of Mesopotamia during WWI, as wel...
No Place to Call Home
A story of resilience and hopethe life of a simple Palestinian girl who survived five wars, countless refugee camps, raised thirteen children, and now shares both her suffering and wisdom.
Doing Honest Work in College, Third Edition
Doing Honest Work in College stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of questionable online sources and temptation of a quick copy-paste can cause confusion as to what’s considered citing and what’s considered cheating. This guide starts out by clearly defining plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty and then gives students the tools they need to avoid those pitfalls. This edition addresses the acceptable use of mobile devices on tests, the proper approach to sources such as podcasts or social media posts, and the limitations of citation management software.
Edith Wharton's Lenox
An insider’s history of how famed novelist Wharton stirred up scandal in the western Massachusetts town. In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905. As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider’s glimpse of the community’s reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.
Politics and the Military in Uganda, 1890–1985
How was the military dictatorship of Idi Amin possible? Was it inevitable? The author seeks the answers to these questions in the political and military history of Uganda from colonial times and finally considers the regimes which have followed Amin's dictatorship in Uganda, exploring the political role of the army after it has taken power. This case study of Uganda contains valuable insights into civil-military relations elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.
