Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Joseph Wheelan • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralAuthor Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war ...

• Author(s): Joseph Wilson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesThrough the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fuele...

• Author(s): John Avlon • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Commentary & OpinionWingnuts exist on the extreme edges of the political spectrum. They're the professional polarizers and the unhinged activists, ...

• Author(s): Kerry McDonald • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: ComparativeFrom the bestselling author of Unschooled, an exploration of new, low-cost K-12 learning models that favor individualized, learner-cente...

• Author(s): Joseph Menn • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoryThe shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.Cult o...

• Author(s): Les Standiford • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Circus"Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures a...

• Author(s): Emily Bass • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesShortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize "Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the...

• Author(s): Tom Hayden • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: History & Theory - General"We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual s...

• Author(s): Patrick Tyler • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralHailed as "absorbing" by the New York Times and "suspense-filled" by Foreign Affairs, Patrick Tyler's A Great Wall ...

• Author(s): Michael Kinsley • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Literary Figures"Each week the editors of Slate, one of the first and best on-line literary magazines, ask a different person to keep a diary. The...

• Author(s): Vladimir Putin • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalWho is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of ...

• Author(s): George Soros • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Economics - TheoryGeorge Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an international bestseller and an instant classic; a must read for anyone co...

• Author(s): Maurice Isserman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Social Scientists & Psychologists"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal boo...

• Author(s): Richard Butler • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - Arms Control"The Greatest Threat is the ""brutally candid"" inside story of the West's failure to stop Iraqi dictator Sad...

• Author(s): Anne Nivat • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralTwo years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its...

• Author(s): Ward S. Just • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Thrillers - Historical"Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, ...

• Author(s): Peter Israel • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Murder - GeneralIn Others Unknown, Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh's lawyer in his trial for the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Office Building in Oklahom...

• Author(s): Meg Greenfield • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: American Government - GeneralWith Washington, the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post wrote an instant classic, a soc...

• Author(s): David Kessler • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Industries - AgribusinessTobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scient...

• Author(s): Liang Zhang • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - ChinaOn the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist ...

• Author(s): Gideon Rose • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11, one question has been on everyone's mind: "How did this happen...

• Author(s): James Fallows • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralThe troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in t...

• Author(s): Don Hewitt • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsIn more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in telev...

• Author(s): Robert S. McNamara • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Military - GeneralWith Wilson's Ghost, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight deliver an impassioned plea and a decisive and multi-faceted prog...

• Author(s): Alex Beam • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralIts landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep schoo...

• Author(s): Neil Baldwin • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: BusinessHow and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time...

• Author(s): Daniel Glick • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: TerrorismIn October, 1998 an arson caused $12 million in damage at Vail, the country's largest ski area. A shadowy radical environmental group called...

• Author(s): Charles M. Sennott • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionAs the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the...

• Author(s): Leon R. Kass • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsFew avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radi...

• Author(s): Arthur L. Liman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesDuring nearly half a century of practicing law, Arthur L. Liman represented the very best ideals of his profession. He was ren...

• Author(s): Paul Blustein • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Economic HistoryLauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the s...

• Author(s): G. Wayne Miller • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Motor Sports - GeneralWhat is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassi...

• Author(s): David Lamb • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoricalWhen he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again...

• Author(s): Katharine Greider • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Industries - Pharmaceutical & BiotechnologyAs the pharmaceutical industry invests more and more in the development of new drugs, true breakt...

• Author(s): David Kuhl • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Death, Grief, BereavementFacing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physic...

• Author(s): Robert Bryce • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralAfter the shocking collapse of Enron in fall, 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how...

• Author(s): Joan Burbick • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: WomenRodeo Queens is a bittersweet journey into the lives of women who have worked the rodeo circuit in the rural West from the 1930s to the present....

• Author(s): John Taliaferro • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: GeneralGutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, had an Ahab-like obsession with Colossalism-a scale that matched his ego ...

• Author(s): Michael Mandelbaum • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralAt the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relati...

• Author(s): Robin Kirk • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaMore Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia...

• Author(s): Bradley Graham • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: GeneralEven as America faces a world of difficult-to-detect, low-tech, unconventional threats, the Bush administration has put its faith in a missi...

• Author(s): Richard C. Leone • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EssaysIn each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. T...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Animals - MammalsFor thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But...

• Author(s): Joel Siegel • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsAt the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had...

• Author(s): David Carlyon • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsDan Rice had many lives. He was a pig presenter, a strongman, a lecturer, and a comic singer, all before joining ...

• Author(s): Stuart E. Eizenstat • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustIn the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy offi...

• Author(s): Karl E. Meyer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - GeneralWhen Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissivel...

• Author(s): Sheri Fink • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction In April 1992...

• Author(s): George Soros • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeNever before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague...

• Author(s): Mark Arax • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: BusinessThe fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central...

• Author(s): John W. Fountain • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalJohn W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, and broken homes consigned so many...

• Author(s): Dorothy I. Height • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalDorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory...

• Author(s): Jeri Laber • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: WomenAfter Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife...

• Author(s): Aryeh Neier • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Civil RightsFor over forty years, Aryeh Neier has stood with the vanguard in the struggle for rights. Since joining the staff of the American Civil Li...

• Author(s): Tom Tucker • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoryEvery schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds a...

• Author(s): Benjamin Weiser • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: MilitaryIn August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordin...

• Author(s): Joseph S. Nye Jr • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyJoseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently--and often incorrectly--b...

• Author(s): Steven Strasser • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesIn the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and ...

• Author(s): Sheryll Cashin • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOn May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherentl...

• Author(s): James R. Lilley • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: PoliticalJames Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 191...