"Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union strategized to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today, it is commonly assumed that the two superpowers' military aid enabled the survival of allied autocrats, from Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shekto Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam. In Up in Arms, political scientist Adam E. Casey rebuts the received wisdom: Cold War-era aid to autocracies often backfired. Casey draws on extensive original...

Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Williealong the way.

Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Saonia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.

"What to do when you're the perpetual new kid, only child, military brat hustling school-to-school each year and everyone's looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from every child's favorite co-conspirator-their imaginary best friend. Born in the perfect storm of especially ferocious rain and a sugar-fueled imagination, Mikey, his imaginary best friend, steps in to figuratively hold...

"A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle aEpoque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacrae-Cur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Towerto the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle aEpoque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siaecle Paris was a city at war with itself....

"A graphic memoir recounting the author's childhood in Iraq and his experiences during the Iraq War and its aftermath from 1989 to 2011"--

"A history of Alexander Hamilton's plan to transform the American economy"--

"The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed-and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training...

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties-making copyright a labyrinthine...

"A kaleidoscopic combination of deeply sourced, on-the-ground reporting and novelistic storytelling, detailing America at a crossroads as the battle between the right and left spills out from the dark corners of the internet into the real world"-- "This tour de force of investigative journalism-in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized-depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right...