A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from theworkers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as atriumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The CanalBuilders , Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscureda far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tensof thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from allaround the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythologysurrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditionsand discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawingextensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the bookchronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers andtheir fami?lies. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, TheCanal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of theworld's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launchedAmerica's twentieth-century empire.

Joseph Nye coined the phrase 'soft power' to describe anation's ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power - theability to coerce - grows out of a country's military or economicmight, soft power arises from the attractiveness of its culture,political ideals and policies. Hard power remains crucial in aworld of states trying to guard their independence and of non-stategroups willing to turn to violence. But as a new administration -whether Republican or Democrat - maps out its foreign policy, Nyeemphasizes the importance of husbanding our military power andnurturing our soft power. It is soft power that will help preventterrorists from recruiting supporters from among the moderatemajority. And it is soft power that will help the United Statesdeal with critical global issues that require multilateralcooperation.

Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics. Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition has grown by leaps and bounds ever since. Barack Obama in His Own Words, a book of quotes from the Illinois Senator, allows those who aren't as familiar with his politics to learn quickly where he stands on abortion, religion, AIDS, his critics, foreign policy, Iraq, the War on Terror, unemployment, gay marriage, and a host of other important issues facing America and the world. 作者简介： Lisa Rogak is the author of In His Own Words: Colin Powell and Howard Dean In His Own Words. Her works have been reviewed and otherwise mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, Parade Magazine, USA Today, Family Circle, and hundreds of other publications. She lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The first full reckoning of what actually happened atAbu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books onIraq" ( The New York Times Book Review ) Arelentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines ofthe war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a warstory that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed authorPhilip Gourevitch presents the story behind a defining moment inthe war, and a defining moment in our understanding of ourselves-the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse. Drawing onAcademy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris's astonishinginterviews with the Americans who took and appeared in thepictures, Standard Operating Procedure is an utterlyoriginal book that stands to endure as essential reading long afterthe current war in Iraq passes from the headlines.

What foreign country has the power to send America crashinginto a recession? Why is the USA still dangerously dependent onoil, when viable energy alternatives have existed for decades? Whomade the call that we should return to nuclear energy-and then tooka high-paying position with a nuclear company? Which youth groupwas a spawning ground for many contemporary power mongers? Whatlobbyists and special-interest groups are running the show onCapitol Hill-and exactly what tools of persuasion are theyusing? Melissa Rossi answers these questions and more in this timely andtopical guide to who's pulling the strings behind the scenes ofAmerican politics. This latest edition of Rossi's popular WhatEvery American Should Know. . . shows Americans what is going onbehind the scenes and how they can counterbalance the influence ofa small, powerful elite to put the power back where it should be-inthe hands of the people.

In a collision with a steamship, City of Rome, on the night ofSeptember 25, 1925, the U.S. Navy Submarine S-51 sank in 132 feetof water, taking 33 sailors to the ocean floor. This is the storyof the men charged with doing the impossible-raising the thousandton sub from the bottom of the sea. Added to this modern classic oftrue adventure are a foreword and afterword giving specifics of theaccident and the aftermath, additional photographs, a publisher'spreface, and appendices.

In this the first book ever written about the CIA's Office of Technical Service, former director Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films) and internationally renowned intelligence historian H. Keith Melton offer an unprecedented look at the CIA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible. Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions- including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the current War on Terror-the authors show how the CIA carries out its missions employing amazingly inventive tools. Illustrated with images never before seen by the public-and featuring everything from micro cameras to wired kitties to exploding pancakes-Spycraft is both a fantastic encyclopedia of gadgetry and a revealing primer on the fundamentals of high-tech espionage.

As his parents finished packing the few personal belongines they were permitted to take out of Germany,the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene.He was a bookish and reflective child,with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted.“I'll be back someday.”he saide to the cutoms inspector who was surveying the boses.Years later,he would recall how the offciual looded at him“with the disdain of ages”and said nothing. Henry Kissinger was right:he did come bacd to his Bavarian birthplace,first as a soldier with the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps,them as a ren owned scholar of international relations,and eventually as the dominant relations,and eventually as the dominant statesman of his era. Bya the time he was made secretary of stalte in 1973,he had become,according to the Gallup Poll,the most admired person in America.In addition.as the conducted foreign ploicy with the air of a gues

Interweaving autobiography with history, introspection andpolitical commentary, Mary Antin recounts the process of"uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, anddevelopment that took place in my own soul", and reveals the impactof a new culture on her family.

New introductions commissioned from today's top writers andscholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporaryhistorical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes andendnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems,books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired bythe work Comments by other famous authors Study questions tochallenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographiesfor further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriateAlleditions are beautifully designed and are printed to superiorspecifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellationof influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich eachreader's understanding of these enduring works.

The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of PulitzerPrize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."sAge of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt'sfirst tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office atthe bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American peoplethat they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventionalwisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to averteconomic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale,and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches torecovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realisticmeans, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescuecapitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger'scustomary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in thehistory of the republic.

An original collection of the most influential documents inAmerican history, from the bestselling author of A Patriot'sHistory of the United States. Since 2005, A Patriot's History of the United States has become amodern classic for its defense of America as a unique countryfounded on principles of justice, equality, and freedom forall. The Patriot's History Reader continues this tradition by goingback to the original sources-the documents, speeches, and legaldecisions that shaped our country into what it is today. The authors explore both oft-cited documents-the Declaration ofIndependence, Emancipation Proclamation, and Roe v. Wade--as wellas those that are less famous. Among these are George Washington'sletter to Alexander Hamilton, which essentially outline America'smilitary strategy for the next 150 years, and Herbert Hoover'sspeech on business ethics, which examines the government's role inregulating private enterprise. By helping readers explore history at its source, this

The Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party. It will help both students making their first approach to Marx's thought and those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully anno-tated text of the Manifesto, a useful historical and philosophical introduction by Frederic Bender, and a chronology of events sur-rounding publication of the Manifesto. More experienced students will benefit from sections on the sources of Marx's thought, the sig-nificance of the Manifesto in the history of Marxism, and recent interpretations of the work. THE EDITOR: FREDERIC L. BENDER is professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of The Betrayal of Marw and editor of Karl Marx: The Essential Writings.

Tony Judt is on e of today's leading historians and thinkers.Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in 2007, his previous book, Postwar , was hailed as "monumental . . . a tour de force"by Foreign Affairs , among other leading publications. In Reappraisals , he persuasively argues that we have entered an"age of forgetting." Drawing provocative connections between adazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and thechallenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretationof the Cold War to the displacement of history by heritage, Judttakes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how wecame to know it, and shows how much of our history has beensacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding anddenial over memory.

Tying into the official theme for the 2009 Inauguration, “A NewBirth of Freedom” from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Penguinpresents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration ofPresident-elect Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkersand writers who have helped shape him politically, philosophically,and personally: Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Having Lincoln and Emerson’s most influential, memorable, andeloquent words along with Obama’s much-anticipated historicalinaugural address will be a gift of inspiration for every Americanand a keepsake for generations. Includes: * Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 * Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865 * Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863 * Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrantfor his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, theOctober Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the shortintervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolution". Thispowerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regimeand a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here thatLenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged hisopponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, thelessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeoisstate and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of theproletariat. As both historical document and political statement,its importance can hardly be exaggerated. This title is translatedand edited with an introduction by Robert Service.

Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post , puts forth in Fiasco a masterfulreckoning with the planning and execution of the American militaryinvasion and occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recentdevelopments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of anextraordinary number of American personnel—including more than onehundred senior officers—and access to more than 30,000 pages ofofficial documents, many of them never before made public.Tragically, it is an undeniable account—explosive, shocking, andauthoritative—of unsurpassed tactical success combined withunsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America’s mostpowerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy , Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drif