21st century history: from c 2000 - books

""Writing with a lucidity that enables him to convey deep insights without a trace of jargon…. [Paper Promises is]...  Read More >>

The #1 ""New York Times"" bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Maddow...  Read More >>

Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey  Read More >>

Forty of the most memorable speeches made between 1945 and the present day.  Read More >>

Luomi reveals how the Gulf's most dynamic rentier monarchies, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, have begun responding to new,...  Read More >>

Target Sitting is the heartbreakingly candid journal of a Capitol Hill staffer in the wake of September 11, 2001....  Read More >>

Exhibition catalogue for Making the Italians. 150 Years of National History at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni,...  Read More >>

Presents the vast collection in The Museo Nazionale dell Automobile.  Read More >>

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Lays out a plan for breaking down the centralized bureaucracy that is hamstringing the American economy and eroding...  Read More >>

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Spanning academic and public debates, Empire's Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered...  Read More >>

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A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting...  Read More >>

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What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster...  Read More >>

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Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its...  Read More >>

In 1936, New Yorkers approved a radical change in local democracy. By a margin of nearly two to one, they replaced...  Read More >>

The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given...  Read More >>