What exactly is science? Is there anything particularly special about scientific knowledge that distinguishes it from other forms of...

How did Chinese reformers gain the knowledge necessary to completely transform their economy in the 1980s? An answer could be found in...

In the early/mid-1960s, U.S. policymakers saw Sukarno's Indonesia shifting dangerously to the left. The government was aligning with the...

Sunday Times editor Peter Conradi has written an accessible, engaging and comprehensive account of U.S.-Russian relations from the...

The anti-leftist purge in Indonesia in 1965-66, which resulted in half a million dead and a million detained without trial, has received...

The Economic Weapon is a fascinating and highly reaable account of the birth of the modern economic sanctions, a tool, short of war yet...

This book by historian Stephen Wertheim is an impassioned account of the emergence of US global military dominance after World War II....

This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...

This book is incredibly timely. Published just three months before Russia invaded Ukraine this February, "Not One Inch: America, Russia...

The Covid pandemic is the global crisis par excellence. Rarely, if ever, before had a singular event impacted so many people across the...

Written by Broadcasting historian Alban Webb, London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War is an eye-opening portrayal...

Who controls American foreign policy? The answer, according to Shoup and Minter, is a concentrated subsection of American society,...

How was it possible that for the second time in a generation, Germany should have embarked on a campaign of conquest and destruction,...

Zoology professor Matthew Cobb has delivered an exciting and accessible history of humanity's enduring journey to understand its own...

"The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory" is an impressive monograph by Professor David Park on...

I began reading this expecting it to be a book about Washington's involvement in the enormous mass murder of Indonesians in 1965/66, but...