Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Paul Farmer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Emergency Medicine"Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times "The book's great...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAfrica does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vita...

• Author(s): Jason Stearns • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralA "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times​) history of the devastat...

• Author(s): Anatol Lieven • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralIn the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With al...

• Author(s): Haroon K. Ullah • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAwais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar -- the largest open market in South Asia -- whose labyr...

• Author(s): Ethan Chorin • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - NorthIn Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lif...

• Author(s): Joel Brinkley • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population pe...

• Author(s): Neill Lochery • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - SpainThis atmospheric history of Portugal's capital city during the Second World War is a gripping tale of high-stakes intrigue, betrayal, ...

• Author(s): Bill Shore • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesA small cadre of scientists -- collaborators and competitors -- are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria -- a feat mo...

• Author(s): Conor O'Clery • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each othe...

• Author(s): David McKean • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoricalThe last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a radical,...

• Author(s): Kate Daloz • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better...

• Author(s): Simon Jenkins • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conques...

• Author(s): Kwasi Kwarteng • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 20th CenturyKwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in the...

• Author(s): Robert Service • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EspionageThe early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were ...

• Author(s): Roger Thurow • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Economic ConditionsAt 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm wo...

• Author(s): Philip White • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismThe year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churc...

• Author(s): Pam Belluck • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)With a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the bestseller In the Heart of the Sea If you need an appendectomy, he can ...

• Author(s): Participant • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EssaysThe First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a wo...

• Author(s): Pin Ho • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: World - AsianThe downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communis...

• Author(s): Erin Meyer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Workplace CultureWhether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to nav...

• Author(s): David Stockman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: PoliticalAs Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution -- a ...

• Author(s): Gyalo Thondup • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: PoliticalShortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of h...

• Author(s): Michael Signer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateIn a time when America is desperately searching for leadership comes this inspiring story of James Madison's coming ...

• Author(s): David Axe • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Nonfiction - GeneralJoseph Kony is the most dangerous guerilla leader in modern African history. It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Kony cl...

• Author(s): Tamim Ansary • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showi...

• Author(s): Charles R. Morris • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic pow...

• Author(s): Chris Hedges • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Military - GeneralGeneral George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love...

• Author(s): Kishore Mahbubani • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAn influential policy thinker and muse of the Asian Century* illuminates the contours of our new global civiliz...

• Author(s): Jagdish Bhagwati • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIn its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism ...

• Author(s): Antonia Fraser • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAntonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's histor...

• Author(s): Peter Carlson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: PoliticalJunius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak ...

• Author(s): Charles Emmerson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the gl...

• Author(s): Meredith Hindley • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Military - World War IIThis rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for E...

• Author(s): David Folkenflik • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Industries - Media & CommunicationsIn July 2012 Rupert Murdoch experienced what he called "the most humbled day of my life" (he misspoke - he...

• Author(s): Lisa J. Shannon • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - CentralDriven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shann...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - GeneralA "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves w...

• Author(s): Monique Brinson Demery • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoricalIn November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and support...

• Author(s): Husain Haqqani • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan -...

• Author(s): Leanda de Lisle • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)The Tudors are England's most dramatic royal family-Henry VIII notoriously divorce...

• Author(s): Alex Beam • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: ReligiousOn June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man th...

• Author(s): Leanda de Lisle • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoricalFrom the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Br...

• Author(s): Kwasi Kwarteng • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralIn six months, Margaret Thatcher reinvented her political party and redefined modern conservatism in one of the gre...

• Author(s): Benjamin Ajak • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: HistoricalThe inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, faci...

• Author(s): Peter Pomerantsev • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Regional StudiesA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show Professional kil...

• Author(s): Deborah Cadbury • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralIn 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era -- the cri...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - GeneralA sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds...

• Author(s): Elaine Lowry Brye • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Military FamiliesThis essential guide for all military families provides helpful advice and reassurance on topics ranging from boot camp, to dep...

• Author(s): Dana H. Allin • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyAnger and distrust have strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance as the Obama administration and Netanyahu government h...

• Author(s): Garry Kasparov • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe ascension of Vladimir Putin--a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB--to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a sig...

• Author(s): Derek Chollet • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: American Government - Executive BranchIn this inside assessment of Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy, Derek Chollet tackles the prevailing consen...

• Author(s): Radley Balko • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional raci...

• Author(s): Kelly McMasters • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: GeneralShirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar th...

• Author(s): Tom Burgis • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Economic ConditionsAn "impressive" (Wall Street Journal) exposé of twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from ...

• Author(s): Emma Sky • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little i...

• Author(s): Jochen Hellbeck • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September...

• Author(s): G. K. Kasparov • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: World - Russian & SovietThe stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship-and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it ...

• Author(s): Robert Service • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralOn 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years...

• Author(s): Marc Lynch • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: World - Middle EasternLess than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent d...

• Author(s): Yasha Levine • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Privacy & Surveillance (see also Social Science - Privacy &The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this ...