Sciences Sociales / Politique / Liberté politique & Sécurité

The Challenge

de Jonathan Mahler

An inspiring legal thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law...

The Devil and Mr. Casement

de Jordan Goodman

THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD

In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports...

Imperial Ambitions

de Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

In this first collection of interviews since the

bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy

Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important...

Stalking the Red Bear

de Peter Sasgen

Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”

Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding...

NYPD Confidential

de Leonard Levitt

For years, the police commissioner and the mayor of New York City have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have been...

The New Cold War

de Edward Lucas

The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC,...

Gideon's Spies

de Gordon Thomas

THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE COMPELLING AND CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL’S SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded...

Reporting the War

de John Byrne Cooke

Threats to freedom of the press and the need for democratic dialogue are always greatest in wartime. At a time when the debate over the role of the free press is as contentious as ever before, John Byrne Cooke,...

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan

de Melody Ermachild Chavis

Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty, and lives on in the hearts of all progressive...

The 9/11 Report

de The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

With Reporting and Analysis by the New York Times

What happened on 9/11 and how? Have we learned any lessons? Are we safer now?  The questions every American wants answered.

Since September 11, 2001, Americans...

The Confrontation

de Walid Phares

In Future Jihad, terrorism and Middle East expert Walid Phares gave a definitive account of the historical and cultural forces that led to September 11 and the rise of radical Islam. In The War of Ideas, he...

The War of Ideas

de Walid Phares

From Afghanistan and Iraq to Europe and the United States we are engaged in one of the most heated wars of all time. In this incisive new book, the man that has been called--the only one to understand the mind...

Texas Tough

de Robert Perkinson

A vivid history of America’s biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation’s punitive revolution

In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation...

What We've Lost

de Graydon Carter

What We've Lost addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration by one of our leading magazine editors, Graydon Carter. Carter has expressed his deep dissatisfaction...

Terror in Black September

de David Raab

On Sunday, September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound from Europe for New York.  One, a brand new Pan Am 747, was taken to Cairo and blown up only...

An End to al-Qaeda

de Malcolm Nance

Osama Bin Laden is unquestionably the leader of the world’s most deadly terrorist cult. He has perverted the teachings of Islam to create a fringe religious ideology, Bin Ladenism, where only al-Qaeda speaks...

Winning the Right War

de Philip H. Gordon

A new strategy for American foreign policy that looks beyond Iraq and changes the way we think about the war on terror.

Six years into the “war on terror,” are the United States and its allies better off...

Message to the Movement

de Mumia Abu-Jamal & Alice Walker

Radical black journalist gives organizing advice, political analysis and encouragement to activists from his cell on Death Row

Lawful Abuse: How the Century of the Child became the Century of the Corporation

de Robert Flynn

A powerful indictment of America’s abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of corporations, this account exposes the child labor, indentured servitude, and child slavery that are...

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

de Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Matt Meyer & Mandy Carter

A compendium of writings that detail the grassroots actions of social and political activists from the civil rights era of the early 1960s to the present day, this book reviews the major points of intersection...