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Ours to Explore investigates voluntourism's past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon.

The story of how ruinous mismanagement has resulted in the economic implosion of Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, told by a former Caracas-based oil correspondent.

"The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.

This is Alice Feiring's emotional tale of a remarkable country and people who have survived religious wars and Soviet occupation, yet managed always to keep hold of its precious wine traditions. Embedded in the narrative is even hope that Georgia has the temerity to confront its latest threat - modernization.

Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War.

William K. Harvey was the CIA's most daring and successful field operator during the tense, early days of the Cold War. Extremely intelligent, a dedicated martini drinker, coarse in manner and appearance, both loved and hated, he was larger than life.

Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II.

Steven L. Dundas tells the epic story of how religion and racial ideology influenced slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and today’s struggles for civil rights.

The autobiography of one of America’s highly esteemed diplomats, Ambassador Anthony “Tony” C. E. Quainton, and his long and storied career in eleven countries on six continents in a unique diversity of top posts.

This is the first detailed account of the historic race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy after World War II.

Quest for the Presidency is an engaging and insightful popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present, analyzing the threads that link campaigns across time and shedding light on today’s politics.

A fresh look at Lou Henry Hoover, the First Lady who preceded Eleanor Roosevelt.

Cartography is the story of Katherine Schifani's experience as a gay woman serving as a counterterrorism advisor in Iraq in 2011, surrounded by strangers and strangeness amid the repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

Andrew Fox shows how to predict and assess the most dangerous terrorist threats likely to emerge in the near future in order to focus on countering them.

Saga of the epic nine-year legal battle against the City of New York on behalf of the first responders on the Ground Zero cleanup.

An honest, first-person account of the US Senate by Ben Nelson, former Senator from Nebraska.

Jeffrey D. Simon tells the gripping story of the forgotten terrorist group the Galleanists, a fiery brand of Italian anarchists in the United States during the early 1900s, many of whose tactics are still used today.

In Connected Soldiers John Spencer delivers lessons about how to build teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.

The Winning Tickets follows the true-crime investigation of how America's largest lottery-rigging scam was uncovered and prosecuted after more than a decade, when Rob Sand inherited the case.

In this intimate account of one of the world's most productive inland fisheries, Troubling the Water explores how the rapid destruction of a single lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions.

A concice review bringing together differing perspectives and orientations to provide a complete understanding of the future of the Atlantic Alliance, its relationship with the US, and its implications for global security.

The story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history.

Describes his early years and experiences, fleshing out the years of remote postings, accompanied by sporadic Indian fighting, often overlooked in other biographies.

The authorised biography of Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor James Coburn's career, romances, friendships, and spirituality.

The story of a murder, a hanging, and the centuries-long search for justice for minorities under the American legal system.

These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature and the Arts Journal to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication.

A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.