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Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
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by Maria Whatton, Stewart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Original tales by remarkable writers
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim...
by Darren Stewart-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Before Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, there was Miss Judy Garland. The Judy Monologues is a one-act play, based entirely upon rare voice tapes recorded by Garland in the years leading up to her death at age 47 from an accidental overdose. The original production featured film footage of Garland from her Hollywood heyday. The script features some great monologues for auditions.
Sub Rosa
The O. S. S. and American Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William...
by Hunter Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The race to reach the South Pole for the first time was an unparalleled adventure in the early twentieth century. South, by historian Hunter Stewart, chronicles the competition between two fierce rivals - Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen - to secure their place in history as the first man to lead...
First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
Britannia
100 Documents that Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Graham Stewart traces 2,000 years of an island's story—from Roman province to 21st century European nation-state—through 100 historic documents
From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for the Union...
by Geoffrey Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
For sixty years the dramatic story of the Dunkirk evacuation and the defeat of France - the story of the German conquest of northwest Europe - has been the focus of historical study and dispute, yet myths and misconceptions about this extraordinary event persist. The ruthless efficiency of the German...
The Center
People and Power in Political Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century’s premier US government insider.
During his three decades as a journalist and political pundit for the New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek magazine, Stewart Alsop covered many...
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
The Hawker Hurricane, together with the Spitfire, is the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Many pilots including Douglas Bader thought it was superior to the Spit but together they saved Britain from Nazi invasion and possible defeat.
Adrian Stewart has produced a gloriously atmospheric...
Drone Warrior
An Elite Soldier's Inside Account of the Hunt for America's Most Dangerous Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand the new American way of war.” — General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency
A former special operations member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making,...
An Enormous Crime
The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there
An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case...
Blood in the Hills
A History of Violence in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
When Asia Was the World
Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed...