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The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 43.99The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacemaking contains the professional life lessons of Ambassador John W. McDonald and offers his insight into international issues, providing frank and informed discussion on the environment, women's rights, the global water crisis, sustainable resources, international development, and, above all, peace. more...
Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to... more...
Time Present, Time Past
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.00During his terms in the U.S. Senate, Bill Bradley won a national reputation for thoughtfulness, decency, and a willingness to take controversial positions on issues ranging from tax reform to the rights of Native Americans. All these qualities inform this best-selling memoir, in which Bradley assesses his political career and the experiences that shaped... more...
American Ambassadors in a Troubled World
ABC-CLIO 1992; US$ 127.00Seventy-four senior diplomats provide real insights and practical lessons into the business of being an American ambassador today in a troubled world. more...
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 77.00As a politician, what you say and how you say it is almost as important as what you do. Political careers are made based not only on substantive achievements, but also on style, presentation, speeches, and debates. Dole's is no exception. After a career in government service spanning six presidents, from Lyndon B. Johnson to George H. W. Bush, she... more...
America at War Since 1945
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 33.95Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War analyzes America's involvement in three wars since the end of World War II: Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of these wars?||In Korea and Vietnam,... more...
Winning the World
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 88.00At the dawn of the 21st century, it should be evident that the Cold War of 1945-1991 was but the first of its kind. Nichols urges the reader to consider previous resolutions before another such conflict arises. He asserts that the Cold War was essentially a clash of ideologies tempered by the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. Victory for... more...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 21.99When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Simon Rosenthal, one of America's... more...
Magic and Mayhem
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 16.00AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ are the latest in a string of blunders that includes Vietnam and an unintended war with China from 1950 to ?53, those four fiascoes being just the worst moments in nearly a lifetime of false urgencies, intelligence failures, grandiose designs, and stereotyping of enemies and allies alike. America brought down the Soviet empire... more...
The Good Fight
Scribner 2010; US$ 28.00Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir. For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America?s movement for social change?in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women?s rights?and... more...









