The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a special relationship” between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a new history of recent global politics, author James Cronin explores the dramatic reconfiguring of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets, a movement t...

Every wizard's story has a beginning…Let’s go back to the night I turned thirteen, the night Grandpa sliced my finger with his cane sword.I can’t say what terrified me more, the cold anger in his eyes or the crazy things in his locked study. A talking trunk. Squirming coats. A bookshelf whose titles shifted before my eyes. And one chilling title in particular: Book of Souls.Ten years later and I’m en route to a Romanian monastery in search ...

How did Everson Croft end up with a talking cat?For that story, we have to go back to my early years as a wizard.With New York City in the dumps, the red light is back on in Times Square.Vampires, dark fae, and exotic entertainers have set up shop, promising pleasures beyond the wildest imagination. But now male clients are turning up stiff — all over.I'm thinking supernatural predator, even as the clues keep drawing me back to Tabitha: a my...