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The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 528 pages

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Behind every great revolution is a vision and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early compani...

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Little Women (Alma Classics Ltd)

by Louisa May Alcott

Published: 2016-05-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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A book about growing up which has delighted generations of young readers. The illustrations by Ella Bailey are perfect for the modern audience. This edition includes extra material for young readers.The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – live in financial hardship in New Engl...

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Everywhere You Don't Belong

by Gabriel Bump

Published: 2020-02-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“This book is astonishing. You’ll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you’ll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has establis...

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On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)

by John Stuart Mill

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 608 pages

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'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings'Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democr...

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The Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

Published: 1995-09-23

Paperback: 160 pages

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For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and...

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Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII (1)

by Sophie Poldermans

Published: 2019-08-04

Paperback: 228 pages

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This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world.When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers,...

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Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite

by Peter Schweizer

Published: 2020-01-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe. Clinton Cash revealed t...

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For the Record

by Regina Jennings

Published: 2016-12-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Jennings Offers Another Delightful Blend of History and RomanceBetsy Huckabee might be a small-town girl, but she has big-city dreams. Writing for her uncle's newspaper will never lead to independence, and the bigger newspapers don't seem interested in the Hart County news. Trying a new ap...

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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

by Tom Holland

Published: 2019-09-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointles...

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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime

by Bruno Latour

Published: 2018-11-12

Paperback: 140 pages

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The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these th...