As the new Russian president, Vladimir Putin is going to be a household name, yet few know much about him. In a long interview, conducted by three respected Russian journalists over several weeks, Putin subjects himself to scrutiny and reveals his past.

First Person : An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President

Biographies & Memoirs

Putin, Vladimir

Gevorkian, Nataliia

Fitzpatrick, Catherine A.

Timakova, Natal

Leaders & Notable People

Public Affairs

THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China published in decades. It reveals the highest-level processes of decision-making during the tumultuous events surrounding the terrible massacre in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989.Drawn from about 2,000 documents, THE TIANANMEN PAPERS have been compiled and edited as part of an extraordinary collaboration between America's most prominent China scholars and a handful of Chinese people who have risked their lives to obtain them.The Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 were the longest lasting and most influential in the world. THE TIANANMEN PAPERS exposes the desperate conflict during the period among a few strong leaders, whose personalities emerge with unprecedented vividness. Its revelations of the most important event in modern Chinese history will have a profound impact not only in China, but in every country in the world that deals with China.

Tiananmen Papers, The

History

Liang, Zhang

Asia

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Auschwitz

Rees, Laurence

Military

Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

Burns, Eric

Professionals & Academics

author of the new york times best seller banker to the poor brings you creating a world without poverty-social business and the future of capitalism

Creating a World Without Poverty

Business & Money

MUHAMMAD YUNUS

Economics

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced first upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land, culminating in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and in the devastation of the Boer republics.
 Martin Meredith's magisterial account of those years portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Based on significant new research and filled with atmospheric detail, it focuses on the fascinating rivalry between diamond titan Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger, the Boer leader whose only education was the Bible, who believed the earth was flat, yet who defied Britain's prime ministers and generals for nearly a quarter of a century. Diamonds, Gold and War makes palpable the cost of western greed to Africa's native peoples, and explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold in South Africa, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.

Diamonds, Gold and War The Making of South Africa

Martin, Meredith

Africa

It has been called a hymn, a prayer, our unofficial nat. anthem -- ''America the Beautiful,'' the song that has expressed the dreams of Americans from Ray Charles to Elvis Presley, from eager immigrants to hopeful graduates, from the battlefields of WW1 to the Super Bowl. In this first full biography of this song, Sherr reveals the dramatic story behind its unlikely creation. She profiles the poet, Katharine Lee Bates, who composed the verse after a trek to the top of Pikes Peak, CO. She introduces us to Samuel Augustus Ward, who conceived the melody in a moment of inspiration after a trip to Coney Island. Katharine & Sam never met or even communicated, but their creations seamlessly captured the American spirit. Beautifully designed & illustrated!

America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song

Lynn Sherr

Humor & Entertainment

When Jim Squires set up shop as a horse breeder in the bluegrass country of Kentucky, no one held out much hope for him making a living at it. But he had been raising horses for 20 years, including equine athletes. This is Squires s rollicking tale of how a novice in the world of Kentucky horse culture did more than merely stay in business: he brought together the stallion & mare who produced Monarchos, the colt who went on to win the 2001 Kentucky Derby. Squires lays bare the close-knit & secretive world of the thoroughbred community, tweaking the self-important owners at the Keeneland & Saratoga auctions, & skewering the preening trainers at Churchill Downs & Gulfstream Park. Photos.

Horse Of A Different Color: A Tale Of Breeding Geniuses, Dominant Females, And The Fastest Derby Winner Since Secretariat

Sports & Outdoors

James D. Squires

Individual Sports

Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have taken over America s roads -- pushing fuel consumption up &amp; traffic safety down. Author Keith Bradsher has long been at the forefront of critical SUV &amp; here he delivers a thorough, undeniable indictment of these vehicles as much worse than cars -- for their occupants, for other motorists, for pedestrians, &amp; for the planet itself. This masterpiece of investigative journalism shows how a flawed regulatory system, a desperate Detroit, &amp; our national love for bigger &amp; better have combined to create a highway arms race that puts us all at risk. With a new epilogue &amp; appendix for the paperback edition. A sobering, infuriating, necessary book. Winner of the NY Public Lib. Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. B&amp;W photos.

High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV

Keith Bradsher

Was Ben Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a hoax? And did it determine the course of the Amer. Revolution (AR)? Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. The kite conducted elec. &amp; threw a spark from a key attached to the kite's string, thus proving that lightning &amp; elec. were one. Franklin's kite experiment was an internat. event &amp; the Franklin that it presented to the world became the Franklin of myth. He charmed the French &amp; became a celebrity when he traveled there during the AR, &amp; the French powers were cajoled into joining us in our fight against the Brit. Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer who launched a number of pranks &amp; deceptions. With the electric kite, he managed the greatest hoax of them all -- the trick that may have won the AR.

Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin & His Electric Kite Hoax

Tom Tucker

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