A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and[...]
Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11 Prior to 9/11,[...]
This e-single contains a selection of articles covering the 1994 disclosure that C.I.A. official Aldrich Hazen Ames was a double agent. With the aid of his wife, and in return for millions of dollars, Ames spied for nine years on behalf of the K.G.B. of the Soviet Union, and later for Russia, giving[...]
When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America s best-loved literary figuresincluding Peter Matthiessen, Geor[...]
What if the CIA, in its Cold War infancy, reached as far as one literary magazine--and went on to shape American literature as we know it? In Finks, Joel Whitney details the CIA's intimate ties to the arts, and delves into the murky history of The Paris Review. When news broke that the CIA had collu[...]
Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificen[...]
FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-s[...]
A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stanceFew writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hi[...]
Kate and Cecy and their new husbands Thomas and James embark on a honeymoon in Europe, but when they arrive in France, mysterious and possibly magical events unfold, ranging from the arrival of a lost coronation treasure to the strange disappearance of a glove. Reprint.[...]
A classic of its kind, Frank Partnoy s best-selling FIASCO takes readers inside the rollicking world of derivatives on Wall Street during the mid-1990s. The book tracks Partnoy s success as a young Morgan Stanley employee who quickly becomes steeped in a culture that treats client as targets to be b[...]
In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and [...]
Part one of the authors' comprehensive and innovative work on multidimensional real analysis. This book is based on extensive teaching experience at Utrecht University and gives a thorough account of differential analysis in multidimensional Euclidean space. It is an ideal preparation for students w[...]
An entertaining collection of 208 accessible yet challenging mathematical puzzles, designed to appeal to problem solvers at many different levels.[...]