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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by
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Unlock You: Be calm, confident and happy in just 10 minutes a day
Unlock You: Be calm, confident and happy in just 10 minutes a day

This business book is great for leaders, middle managers and entrepreneurs interested in the following categories; 

  • PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • MINDFULNESS
  • WELLBEING
  • CBT (COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY)

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Political Theology: A Critical Introduction
Political Theology: A Critical Introduction
God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state.

In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel.

In his international...
Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals
Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals

The entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills...

Conflicted American Landscapes
Conflicted American Landscapes
How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists
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France: A Short History
France: A Short History

A short and entertaining narrative of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities that helped create France’s cultural and political influence today.

Country and destination, nation and idea, France has a rich and complex history that fascinates the world...

The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis (New Politics of Autonomy)
The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis (New Politics of Autonomy)

Through the concepts of the ‘coloniality of asylum’ and ‘solidarity as method’, this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; in so doing, it questions the idea of ‘autonomous politics’, showing how both refugee mobility and solidarity are intimately marked by the...

Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.’

How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How
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Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History
Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws”...

God, Do You Really Care?: Finding Strength When He Seems Distant
God, Do You Really Care?: Finding Strength When He Seems Distant
When the Hits Just Keep On Comin' There are small hits: The car won't start. You lose something valuable. It's raining on your five-hundred-person outdoor event. And there are big hits: She's diagnosed with cancer. You're being laid off. They're getting divorced. Regardless of magnitude, each trial causes us to...
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement
An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.

Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a
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