Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962Jisheng Yang★★★★★4.4(404)From Bookforum Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 is methodical and factual, and it amounts to a...
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go AwayRebecca Goldstein★★★★★4.4(400)From Booklist *Starred Review* Plato lives! Brilliantly re-creating Plato’s philosophic dialogues, Goldstein...
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the PentagonRosa Brooks★★★★★4.4(398)“A dynamic work of reportage, punctuated by savory details… It delights. The author is a chipper field guild and...
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It AgainRobert D. Putnam★★★★★4.4(395)Ambitious. . . .xa0Putnam and Garrett are rewriting the political history of the twentieth century here.xa0. . .xa0[A]...
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-BlowerMichela Wrong★★★★★4.4(389)“Wrong’s book is packed with detail and solid sourcing and tells its story clearly.” --Jeffrey Gettleman — New...
Las brujas no se quejan: Un manual de sabiduría concentradaJean Shinoda Bolen★★★★★4.4(374)About the Author Jean Shinoda Bolen is a Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of...
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little GoodWilliam Russell Easterly★★★★★4.4(354)From Publishers Weekly No one who attacks the humanitarian aid establishment is going to win any popularity contests,...
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of RobotsJames Suzman★★★★★4.4(352)“Magisterial.” — The Nation “His book meticulously charts the evolution of labour over 300,000 years, a...
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable ManWalter Stahr★★★★★4.4(351)“[A] masterly new biography . . . [of] one of the most influential and polarizing American politicians of the...
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison WardElizabeth Ford★★★★★4.4(330)Elizabeth Ford, MD , is the chief of psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City's Health and...
Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection ProgramPete Earley★★★★★4.4(324)From the Inside Flap For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the...
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyNina Munk★★★★★4.4(319)Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie AwardBloomberg "Best Books of 2013"Forbes "Best Books of 2013"The Spectator...
Les secrets de l'auraTuesday Lobsang Rampa★★★★★4.4(290)Les pouvoirs de télépathie ou de clairvoyance ne sont pas uniquement l'apanage des Grands Maîtres. A condition de...
Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo GunmenSimon Read★★★★★4.4(286)“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war Europe to...
Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe FrazierMark Kram★★★★★4.4(281)“Kram’s book has the punch of historical truth written in poetic combinations by a reporter who was there.”...
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So HatedGore Vidal★★★★★4.4(280)From Publishers Weekly In this collection of essays, noted novelist and critic Vidal turns his acerbic wit on the...
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern WorldAdrian Wooldridge★★★★★4.4(276)Erudite, thoughtful and magnificently entertaining book." --James Marriott, The Times (London) "Unfailingly...
Supervision of Police PersonnelMarvin D. Iannone★★★★★4.4(271)About the Author About our authors Dr. Jeff Bernstein is President of Bernstein & Associates, Inc. He is a consulting...
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's QuestAminatta Forna★★★★★4.4(242)From Publishers Weekly Forna saw her father for the last time on July 30, 1974; she was 10 years old. In this harrowing...
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy TheoryJesse Walker★★★★★4.4(239)From Booklist This is a remarkably comprehensive, wide-ranging look at the way American culture, politics, religion,...
Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the ArtsPhilip Graham Ryken★★★★★4.4(235)Review Theologically rich and remarkably readable, this book offers sound biblical reasons to cultivate a sense of...
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised EditionPeter H. Irons★★★★★4.4(232)Silver Gavel Award Honorary Mention (American Bar Association) "...xa0a history of the Supreme Court that breathes life...
The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. GarfieldKenneth D. Ackerman★★★★★4.4(222)From Publishers Weekly Several hundred pages of text on Garfield and the politics of his day may seem a stretch, given...
Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of TrumpGary Lachman★★★★★4.4(220)Lachman has written a fascinating analysis of how esoteric and occult ideas have had political consequences, without...