21st Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590619Author George W. BushFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Author, social critic and "New York City's career elegist" (The New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanised and sanitised. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974997Author Ken JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *...

As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her findings as an insider within the most...

Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176532Author Chris WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929950Author Patrick DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be. In Spare the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668009512Author Robert. P JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780374158279Author Ari BermanFormat...

The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown,...

Here is New York as you've never seen it before; the New York behind the New York that you think you know so well. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Julia Wertz regales us with dozens of street scenes that show exactly what the city looked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593597064Author David FinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176525Author Chris WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and...

In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593285992Author Joshua GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Truth Behind the Stories They Don't Want You to Know America's Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520621Author Matt TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of "plain-folk" religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II...

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11…by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916425Author William HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Gore Vidal has been described as the last 'noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America--those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525522317Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the...

Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121374Author Colleen Morton BuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; and the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823534Author John Scott CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission's riveting account-which was a finalist for the National Book Award-of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the...

Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission's riveting account-which was a finalist for the National Book Award-of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the...

They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have...

"That day, I saw humanity at its best and worst. Humanity doesn't have race, creed, or color-not when you look into the very souls of people." -Christopher Braman, Army Sgt. 1st Class (ret.) The terrorist attacks against the United States on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806949Author J. Kael WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of life - political leaders, businesspeople, public...

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182204Author Garrett M GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2007 and L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2007 and Lionel Gelber Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for...

The heroes at the Pentagon were extraordinary civilians and soldiers who made decisions to sacrifice their own safety to render aid to complete strangers. Twenty years later, these stories serve as a reminder of what it truly means to be American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115397Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...