著者:Robert Black
出版社: Reaktion Books
発売日: 2022年09月12日
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian.
“Machiavellian” can signify duplicity and amorali……続きを見る
2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award First Honorable Mention
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives, as ……続きを見る
Das Grundgesetz ist gerade in Krisenzeiten die Grundlage jedes gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurses in Deutschland. Höchste Zeit also für einen Kommentar, der die Verfassung für unsere Zeit neu erklär……続きを見る
著者:Mary E. Stuckey
出版社: Michigan State University Press
発売日: 2018年03月01日
Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument uses a set of letters sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 by American clergymen to make a larger argument ab……続きを見る
Lançada como parte das comemorações do bicentenário da Independência, a obra aborda o retorno de José Bonifácio ao Brasil, mostrando com exatidão o perfil do Andrada, o amor que devotava ao Brasil, ……続きを見る
Frederick Douglass wurde als Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in der Nähe von Easton in Talbot County, Maryland, als Sklave geboren. Als kleiner Junge wurde er als Hausdiener nach Baltimore gesc……続きを見る
Après 37 ans de vie commune, Patrick-Pierre Dhombres se souvient, dans cet ouvrage, de son épouse alors décédée. Il y dépeint une relation d’abord fusionnelle, puis houleuse et déchirée avec l’usure……続きを見る
著者:Francois Becker
出版社: Le Lys Bleu Éditions
発売日: 2022年09月20日
Une histoire de fou est le journal de bord d’un hôpital psychiatrique en Bretagne, alors que la guerre fait rage en Ukraine. L’auteur y dépeint ses profondes impressions sur les maux qui minent notr……続きを見る
Although the school Clara B. Spence founded in 1892 is well known today, her role in educating a whole generation of the daughters of America's first millionaires to become independent women who rej……続きを見る
著者:Peter Zablocki
出版社: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
発売日: 2022年10月17日
All Hail the Chief in the Garden State
Some, like Abraham Lincoln in 1861, came to garner support. Others, like N.J. Governor Woodrow Wilson in 1912, remained and rode that support to the White Hous……続きを見る
Eminent political figure Colin Powell was a model for our time. In addition to chronicling Powell's humble beginnings, this biography recounts his inspiring rise to become one of the most revered fi……続きを見る
'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.'
- Toussaint Louverture
The leader of ……続きを見る
This "outstanding, comprehensive biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a masterful study of the person known only from a distanceーand a riveting insight into her decades-long reign.
Queen Elizabeth II……続きを見る
Two and a half months after Trump talked about immigrants being transferred to the United States by Mexico when declaring his first presidential bid, an incident at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan ……続きを見る
Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have cons……続きを見る
In 'The Extraordinary Life of Frederick Douglass', readers are taken on a powerful journey through the remarkable life of one of America's most influential abolitionists. This autobiography offers a……続きを見る
This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wa……続きを見る
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collec……続きを見る
著者:Cybèle Locke
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2022年12月12日
'I am not interested in ambition in the bourgeois sense. The only ambition I have is to make sure I'm working for a progressive policy. Communism means that much to me. And, yes, I would certainly l……続きを見る
Gedanken und Erinnerungen ist der Titel der vom deutschen Reichsgründer Otto von Bismarck nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Amt des Reichskanzlers im Jahr 1890 verfassten Autobiografie. Das dreibändige……続きを見る
Un mese. Tanto basta perché dal conferimento dell’incarico di cancelliere a Hitler si arrivi al decreto che elimina di colpo i diritti civili. Nella vorticosa e drammatica ricostruzione di giorni de……続きを見る
The Mastmakers’ Daughters are cousins. They have the same name: Rennie de Vries. Our main character grows up above her father’s mastmaker shop in a small seaport on the Zuiderzee. Her three year you……続きを見る
Anne Frank vertraute vom 12. Juni 1942, ihrem dreizehnten Geburtstag, bis zum 1. August 1944 ihrem Tagebuch an, wie sich ihre Familie zwei Jahre lang in einem Amsterdamer Hinterhaus vor den deutsche……続きを見る
The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought, Michael Zuckert’s A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln’s political ideology, a core idea that unifie……続きを見る
An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.
In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New Y……続きを見る
著者:Dan Blackburn
出版社: Page Publishing, Inc.
発売日: 2018年07月20日
Of Presidents & Predators tells the story of a young journalist who grew up in Indiana cheering for the Chicago Cubs and admiring the reporting of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC. It touches ……続きを見る
"Riveting, emotional and powerful. Anyone who has ever lost someone to an incurable disease can identify with this heartbreaking true story."
- Sherman Hutchinson
For months, I lived among the fearf……続きを見る
It's hard enough to escape human trafficking, but how does someone survive the aftermath of continually being hunted for years to come?
I was young when the abuse started. It came from every angle. ……続きを見る
When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott commenced his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed amazement that he should think Queen Elizabeth II worthy of serious study at all. Yet Pimlott’s analysi……続きを見る
THE ART OF BECOMING tantalizes all who spend time in reflection. As a young woman coming of age in early twentieth-century America, Nancy Evans Roles documented faithfully her keen observations and ……続きを見る