Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The…
Shelve The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus
Ever since Ro…
Shelve The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it he…
Shelve Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
The litany of environmental bad news — rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources — can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at what’s happening behind the…
Shelve Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
To most Americans, Australia is a vast, sprawling and actively optimistic country of sun and opportunity. But John Pilger reveals a hidden side: the rapacious politicking that has kept the nation from…
A riveting chronicle of life inside politics. The backroom deals, the frontroom coniving, the bitter defeat of idealism and the triumph of opportunism.
Mike Atherton, England Captain and the most consistently successful cricketer of the last two decades, gives us the inside story of cricket in the biggest sports audiobook of the year. Read by the aut…
The economy and global competitiveness are the bottom line for society and governments, or so says conventional wisdom. But what are the real needs that must be satisfied to live rich, fulfilling live…
Shelve The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
If he had never become Prime Minister Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; it…
Shelve Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginnin…
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called perpetual war for perpetual peace. The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incurs…
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War…
Shelve Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
An immediate national bestseller, Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how, for more than half a century the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the glob…
Shelve Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The Gene…
Shelve The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Obelix is in love - but the beautiful Panacea is engaged to Tragicomix, a conscript in the Roman army. Who'd have expected to see Asterix in a legionary's uniform? When he and Obelix join up to rescue…
Jo and Zette fly it out of its hangar and unable to return they crash land near to the North Pole. There they face a race against time to return the plane to home and win the trans-Atlantic challenge.…
Shelve Destination New York (Les Aventures de Jo, Zette et Jocko #2)
When the Romans say no, Asterix says yes. So when the soldiers construct a barricade around Asterix’s village to pen everyone in, he and Obelix embark on a trip around the entire country, collecting l…
The Maharajah of Gopal is a bad-tempered sort of person, whose behaviour ranges from the childish to the eccentric, and his long-suffering secretary Badalah is usually on the receiving end. Neverthele…
Shelve The Valley Of The Cobras (The Adventures Of Jo, Zette And Jocko)
Oh no! The Romans have captured Cacofonix the bard as a gift for Caesar—and the highly unimpressed Emperor plans to throw him to the lions. By the time the other Gauls notice how quiet and peaceful th…
Mr Pump's legacy is ten million dollars. It will go to the builders of the first aeroplane to fly from Paris to New York at 1000 kilometres per hour. To save Stratoship H.22, designed by their father …
Shelve Mr. Pump's Legacy (The Stratoship H.22, Part One, The Adventures Of Jo, Zette And Jocko)
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit…
How can lovely Queen Cleopatra show Julius Caesar that ancient Egypt is still a great nation? Her architect Edifis recruits his Gaulish friends to help him build a magnificent palace within three mont…
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges a…
With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius, Robert Graves continues the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself and his handicaps. Claudius the God…
Shelve Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
Julius Caesar resorts to psychological warfare to defeat the little Gaulish village: he’s sent expert troublemaker Tortuous Convolulus to set friend against friend. Jealousy soon spreads as the Gauls …
Financial skulduggery in ancient Gaul! When local Chielf Whosemoralsarelastix wants a cauldron full of money kept out of Roman hands, the cash disappears while Asterix is guarding it. He and Obelix mu…
When Julius Caesar wants to parade with his Gallic adversary Vercingetorix's shield, Asterix and his friends race to find the hero's shield before Caesar does.
Shelve Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield (Asterix, #11)
