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Iron Lady
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 9.99Published to coincide with the UK release of the film The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Reveals the private woman behind the leader once dubbed the 'Iron Lady', and offers a valuable insight into the mind of one of the most successful and influential politicians of all time. more...
Das Jahr 1968 - Ereignis, Symbol, Chiffre
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 37.64Hauptbeschreibung Das Jahr 1968 bleibt Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten und der zeitgeschichtlichen Historiografie zwischen Mythos-Pflege und kritischer Rekonstruktion. Diese Historiografie hat den Anspruch, die 68er-Generation und legitimatorische Strategien pro und contra 1968er-Bewegung aus gegenwärtiger Sicht zu deuten. 1968 steht international... more...
How the Cold War Ended
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 24.95Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War more...
The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 31.99In both Europe and North America, organizations tracing their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunctional, richly funded organizations. They now compete to become the major representatives of Western Muslim communities and government interlocutors. Some analysts and policy makers see... more...
The Other Cold War
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 54.99In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical,... more...
The Atlantic Pact forty Years later
De Gruyter 1991; US$ 147.00The Atlantic Pact Forty Years Later: A Historical Reappraisal more...
Archives of Authority
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 39.50Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the... more...
The New Realities
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 56.95The 'new realities' of the title refer to the state of government, society and the economy in the USA, Japan, Western Europe, Russia and the Third World. With characteristic authority and clarity of style, Drucker attempts to define the concerns, issues and controversies of today which will become the realities of the future. Already the bestselling... more...
Gezielte Tötungen
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 74.41Hauptbeschreibung Spätestens seit den Anschlägen des 11. September 2001 praktizieren einige Staaten weltweit gezielte Tötungen wirklicher oder vermeintlicher Terroristen. Diese nicht nur von Menschenrechtsorganisationen als 'Hinrichtungen ohne Strafurteil' kritisierte Praxis wirft zahlreiche völkerrechtliche Fragen auf. Martin Felix Höfer betritt... more...
Never Learn to Type
Wiley 2005; US$ 16.95A fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex. With the support of her parents and through her own determination, she graduated from Cambridge with first... more...









