Alexander: 7118 books
Not Fade Away
A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.
Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
First World Dreams
Mexico since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Mexicans have long dreamt of the First World, and in recent times it has landed with a thud. Under the guise of globalization, Mexico opened its borders, reformed its political system, and transformed its economy. The impacts have been paradoxical. In First World Dreams Alexander Dawson explores the...
Sufism
A New History of Islamic Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present
After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades. In this comprehensive new...
The Museum in America
Innovators and Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The Museum in America captures the life stories of thirteen visionary museum leaders who helped transform the 19th century's collection of curios into today's institution of public service and education. In the lively style of Museum Masters, Alexander recounts the stories of pioneers in American...
Machiavelli's Shadow
The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Karl Rove has come to personify scorched earth political tactics and merciless, win-at-any-cost trickery. His status as the so-called architect behind Bush's election victories has elevated him to a mythic kingmaker in the national imagination. Not since Mark Hanna, special assistant to President...
by Alexander O. Exquemelin
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country's colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters among the Caribbean Islands and along the coasts of Central America, Venezuela, and Colombia more than...
Travels into Bokhara
A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the...
Travels Into Bokhara
A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic...
A More Noble Cause
A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and...
by MK Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
A biography of Mary Cotsis, centered around her World War Two experiences as she escapes the Nazi Occupation of Greece and travels to America to begin a new life. Illustrated with period photographs.
Dictators Without Borders
Power and Money in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated...
Father, Son, and Constitution
How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Langum Prize, Honorable Mention
When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job...
Face Value
The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The scientific story of first impressions—and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect
We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions....