The nonprofit sector is a vital component of our society and is allowed the greatest freedom to operate. The public understandably assumes that since nonprofit organizations are established to do good
Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anti
To all who say our democracy is broken?riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, corrupted by wealth?history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation’s founding, critics have lod
A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA Sunday Times Book of the Year "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage, this is a brilliant read--both powerful and prescient."--Elif Shafak "Wonderful...full of good stories and burning with passion."--Sunday Times "Timely and authoritative...Touches not only high politics but also information technology and life-and-death drama...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "The sound of a warning vibrates through this book."--The Guardian "Essential reading for anyone concerned with libraries and what Ovenden outlines as their role in 'the support of democracy, the rule of law and open society.'"--Wall Street Journal "Ovenden emphasizes that attacks on books, archives and recorded information are the usual practice of authoritarian regimes."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Libraries have been ransacked since ancient times but the deliberate destruction of knowledge has increa
A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis
The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son
How did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to goss
Honorable Mention, PROSE AwardA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Junto Favorite Book of the YearBeginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s
