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A Secret Order
Trine Day 2013; US$ 14.99Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA?s involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the assassination,... more...
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 21.99The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon... more...
Happy Days and Wonder Years
Rutgers University Press 2004; US$ 24.95In the twenty-first century, why do we keep talking about the Fifties and the Sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain their symbolic power. In Happy Days and Wonder Years, Daniel Marcus reveals how interpretations... more...
The United States since 1980
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 18.00Describes the sharp right turn the US has taken following Ronald Reagans election in 1980. more...
Fool's errands
Cato Institute 2001; US$ 8.25President Bush says "we're not into nation-building" in Afghanistan. Judging by recent experiences, he's probably right. In the decade following the end of the Cold War, the Clinton administration undertook several nation-building projects around the globe, all of which have failed. more...
The Kennedys
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 23.99In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations , a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six... more...
Die Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 46.37Vorerst wird die Entwicklungsgeschichte einer gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik in Europa dargestellt sowie die vertragliche und außervertragliche Entwicklung der europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik der EU im Detail. Sodann werden die Regelungen differenzierter Integration im Bereich der ESVP - samt ihren Durchführungsbestimmungen... more...
Die Erklärung der Nichtunterzeichnung des Kyoto-Protokolls durch die Bush-Administration in liberaler Perspektive
Diplomica Verlag 2007; US$ 40.98Hauptbeschreibung Der Liberalismus identifiziert Interessen als determinierende Faktoren für jegliches Verhalten von Individuen oder Gruppen. Für die Richtungsbestimmung der Außenpolitik eines Staates sind demzufolge die Interessen von denjenigen Akteuren entscheidend, welche mittels finanzieller oder struktureller Überlegenheit oder aufgrund anderer... more...
The Turkey and the Eagle
Algora Publishing 2010; US$ 23.95In 1784 Benjamin Franklin advocated choosing the industrious, home-loving wild turkey rather than the thieving, wide-ranging bald eagle as the symbol of the United States. Franklin lost that debate, and since then advocates of cooperation as America's global role have been similarly losing their struggle with advocates of U.S. domination. The author... more...
Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99John Filson (c. 1753-1788) was an American author, historian of Kentucky, pioneer, surveyor and one of the founders of Cincinnati, Ohio. He wrote The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784) during this period, and travelled to Wilmington, Delaware, to have it published in the summer of 1784. He also had a "Map of Kentucke"... more...









