Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using new archival sources that became available after the fall of communism, Westad explains how these interventions destabilized the Third World, laying the foundations for contemporary problems and conflicts in the Global South.¶The Global Cold War is the ...

This book is a work of press history that considers how the music press represented permissive social change for their youthful readership. Read by millions every week, the music press provided young people across the country with a guide to the sounds, personalities and controversies that shaped British popular music and, more broadly, British culture and society.By analysing music papers and oral history interviews with journalists and editors, Patrick Glen examines how papers re...

The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Hobsbawm's vision is important – he was a lifelong Marxist whose view of history was shaped by a fascination with social and economic history, yet who privileged evidence over political theory – but the real power of these works, and especially The Age of Revolution, emanates fro...

'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People‘Remarkable, rare and truly brilliant’ MEGAN NOLAN, author of Acts of Desperation‘Dark, funny, honest and engrossing’ RODDY DOYLE, author of Love‘Refreshing and ambitious’ LISA MCINERNEY, author of The Rules of RevelationOn an island off Ireland’s west coast st...

All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangenessWith the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also exper...

A collection of stories, originally published in 1928, from the author of The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk. A couple set fire to an old farmhouse to collect insurance money. A groom contemplates an old sexual escapade while he waits for his bride at the altar. A young farm boy returns to tell his brother about his capers while stationed in France in the Navy. The eleven stories in this collection, including an introductory essay by Wescott on returning to his parents' West Allis home ...

Discover the original international diet sensation—used by Adele, UFC champion Conor McGregor, and Pippa Middleton—that will help you lose seven pounds in seven days while experiencing lasting energy and eating all the foods you love.Over the past few years, fasting has become a popular diet option. Studies show that fasting—whether through moderate calorie restriction every day or the more severe but less frequent intermittent fasting—can help people lose about th...

INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST‘A triumph … the funniest novel I've read in years’ SALLY ROONEY‘A brilliant and bittersweet ode to young love’ IRISH TIMES'One of my favourite books of the year’ JULIA ARMFIELD‘A funny and frank coming-o...

“Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative” (Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing), this epic novel about the explorer David Livingstone and the extraordinary group of Africans who carry his body across impossible terrain “illuminates the agonies of colonialism and blind loyalty” (O, The Oprah Magazine).“This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...David Livingstone, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in hi...

If you've ever wished you could clear out your clutter, simplify your space, and take back your life, Kathi Lipp's new book has just the solutions you need. Building off the success of her The Get Yourself Organized Project, this book will provide even more ideas for getting your life and your stuff under control.Do any of these descriptions apply to you? ·You bought a box of cereal at the store, and then discovered you have several boxes at home that are already past the "best by" date. ·...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat Melania wants, Melania gets.The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond. As their friendship deepened over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black-tie parties, and giggle se...

A lush debut novel in the vein of Kathleen Tessaro’s international bestseller, Elegance, about a beautiful woman working as a model for Christian Dior in postwar Paris, who discovers astonishing secrets about herself and the fabulous people around her.Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamoro...