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An invaluable investigation into contemporary Lebanese culture and society by the foremost scholar on Lebanese politics and society.

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Amid deep personal crises, a successful American businessman's life takes a dramatic turn and he finds himself wandering the mystical terrain of southern Mexico, accompanied by great sages of Mexican mythology who are teaching him how to survive the changes coming as the Mayan calendar ends.

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Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of liberty and justice for all".

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Even today, as revealed by the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the national soul-searching it precipitated, lynching continues to pervade America's collective memory.

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With polls showing opposition to the death penalty at its highest level in 20 years, this work makes a case against capital punishment in the USA - the last industrialized democracy to retain the death penalty.

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Originally published: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1947.

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From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, this title looks at leisure in the Lebanese capital.

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A comprehensive history of the political and philosophical evolution of history's most controversial revolutionary.

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The first biography of new Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, an inspiring tale of personal struggle and political intrigue. Varadkar has been both highly visible and a key player in negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit and issues surrounding the Irish border with the North.

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This book examines the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period by focusing on Leonardo da Vinci's exemplary status in the narrative history of art. -- .

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Argiung that the Bush adminstration's preemptive approach to domestic and international security has compromised the character of the US and made it more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. An eloquent and orginal argument for the return to the rule of law.

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"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."--"The Nation"Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance the struggles of the present.Frances Fox Piven is the author of many important books.

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Fiercely committed to the ideal of a color-blind America, Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions. In this work, Connerly extols the traditional virtues of personal accountability as a ballast to race industry's culture of victimhood.

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Lessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and coauthor of the

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Examines what the experience of past empires tells us about the nature and consequences of global power. Reviewing the much contested history of domination by Western colonizing powers, this work asks what lessons the history of these empires can teach us about the world.

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Presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of US political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. This title represents the radical movements that have most challenged the US empire from within.

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A wry and outrageous chronicle of contemporary gay life.