Hachette Non-Fiction

• 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...

• Author(s): Alexander Sanger • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Abortion & Birth ControlThirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choi...

• Author(s): William Shawcross • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in I...

• Author(s): Craig R. Whitney • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Middle East - IraqFeatures the official report from the bipartisan Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Wea...

• Author(s): Alan Green • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Animal RightsA vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underw...

• Author(s): Azadeh Moaveni • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: MemoirsAs far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azad...

• Author(s): David Rothkopf • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe U.S. National Security Council is probably the most powerful committee in the world. This book describes the...

• Author(s): Mark Leonard • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThose who believe Europe is weak, ineffectual and sclerotic are wrong. Europe might look frail and feeble against Am...

• Author(s): Eric Burns • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Media StudiesInfamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspon...

• Author(s): Fernando Henrique Cardoso • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finan...

• Author(s): Guidi Chen • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessThe Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the po...

• Author(s): Peter Charles Hoffer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Historiography

• Author(s): Kenneth Feinberg • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesAs head of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Kenneth Feinberg was asked to do the impossible: calculate the dollar value of ...

• Author(s): Kathy Gannon • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIn early 1986 Kathy Gannon sold pretty much everything she owned (which wasn't much) to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign ...

• Author(s): Richard N. Haass • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn this dramatic new perspective on international affairs, Richard N. Haass, one of the country's most brilliant...

• Author(s): Nate Blakeslee • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesThis true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would...

• Author(s): Robert Rivard • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Murder - GeneralIn December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of t...

• Author(s): Michael Mandelbaum • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Security (National & International)How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelb...

• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Meyer • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesDespite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program: More than 2,200 companies pa...

• Author(s): Joel L. Fleishman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityUnique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century. ...

• Author(s): Adam Roberts • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - GeneralEquatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife ...

• Author(s): John Taliaferro • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's north...

• Author(s): Eva Hoffman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to v...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateRobert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government h...

• Author(s): Andras Szanto • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EssaysPropaganda. Manipulation. Spin. Control. It has ever been thus -- or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic ess...

• Author(s): Kenneth B. Pyle • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyJapan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including...

• Author(s): Brian Steidle • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - NorthFormer United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There...

• Author(s): Robert Whitcomb • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew so...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South AfricaSouthern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African ...