Hachette Non-Fiction

• 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): Charles Emmerson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Polar RegionsLong at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of ...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Kishore Mahbubani • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFor two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western...

• Author(s): Joseph Wheelan • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateWhen John Quincy Adams--the sixty-three-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and diplomat--w...

• Author(s): Peter H. Schuck • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EssaysWhat is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for ...

• Author(s): Lawrence Freedman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIt is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of alli...

• Author(s): Joel L. Fleishman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the las...

• Author(s): Derek Chollet • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyOn November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze...

• Author(s): Alec Russell • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South AfricaAward-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkabl...

• Author(s): Rick Wartzman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: American - GeneralFew books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was t...

• Author(s): Kwasi Kwarteng • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: World - GeneralThe world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spai...

• Author(s): Brian Lamb • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: EssaysIn this beautifully designed volume, America's top Lincoln historians offer a diverse array of perspectives on the life and legacy of America's s...

• Author(s): Richard Langworth • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: ReferenceCharismatic, erudite, and often controversial, Winston Churchill was one of the most inspiring leaders of the twentieth century, and on...

• Author(s): Cliff Sloan • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jeffe...

• Author(s): Neil Macfarquhar • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Islamic StudiesSince his boyhood in Qadhafi's Libya, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all th...

• Author(s): Tamim Ansary • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralDestiny Disrupted, "a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world," (San Francisco Ch...

• Author(s): Marc Wortman • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history -- it was the centerpiece of Gone with...

• Author(s): Peter Carlson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralKhrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. Khrushchev told ...

• Author(s): Brian Lamb • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - GeneralSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites o...

• Author(s): Elizabeth C. Goldsmith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically m...

• Author(s): Benjamin Roth • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the...

• Author(s): Steven Lomazow • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateWhen Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, his lifelong physician swore that the president had always been in perf...

• Author(s): Joseph Wheelan • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with a...

• Author(s): Ed Moloney • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Europe - IrelandThe dawning of peace in Northern Ireland has not brought with it much truth about what happened during 'the long war'. Very few of the ...

• Author(s): Deborah Amos • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralFrom Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile--the largest exile pop...

• Author(s): Martin Meredith • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateNelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leaders...

• Author(s): Jonathan Green • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Human RightsOn September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbe...

• Author(s): Ussama Makdisi • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension an...

• Author(s): Adam Fergusson • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThe classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany--"brilliant" (Guardia...

• Author(s): Brian Tracy • Publisher: Vanguard Press • Publisher Imprint: Vanguard Press • BISAC: Personal Growth - SuccessMost people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments...