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Woodrow Wilson

Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics

Explore more than 5,000 years of mechanised conflict around the globe - from the earliest chariots and warships to the supersonic fighters and bombers of the modern era. Take an exhilarating ride through the ever-changing world of mobile warfare, across hundreds of pages of dramatic photography and evocative text with The Military Transport Book.Get up close to more than 400 of the most important and ground breaking examples ever built: jump aboard a Korean turtle ship, drive a Mark V Sherman tank, pilot a Supermarine Spitfire, and take the controls of a state-of-the-art MQ-9 Reaper drone. Discover the awesome, destructive power of these machines as well as how they are used to support, defend, and protect, and the diverse ways in which war has been waged on the ground, at sea, and in the air.In this essential military history title, you will find: <ul><li>Stunning photographic galleries of the most iconic and ground breaking forms of military transport ever created - from tanks and armoured cars to planes and drones</li><li>Photographic "virtual tours" of particularly key examples, such as the Mark IV tank of World War I, the U-995 submarine of World War II, and the F-86 Sabre jet fighter of the Cold War</li><li>Insightful coverage of important milestones and turning points in the history of war</li></ul> Profiling the very latest military technology and hardware in unparalleled detail, this engrossing book tells you everything you need to know about this fascinating area of history. It is essential reading for military enthusiasts of all ages. The Transport series With global sales of more than 3 million copies, DK's Transport titles are engrossing coffee table books that showcase all of the most important and celebrated vehicles and other types of transport ever made - from cars and trains to tanks and planes. Other books in the series include The Tank Book, The Truck Book, The Car Book, and The Aircraft Book.

The Definitive Visual History

The Military Transport Book

This book re-examines the origins and development of the laws of war and human rights law and exposes an overlooked provision of the European Convention on Human Rights which permits the use of lethal force where absolutely necessary to quell an insurrection. When civilian casualties occur in internal armed conflicts, questions are asked about how civilians can be better protected against the use of force by armed insurgents and state security forces. The laws of war include protection against the targeting of civilians but permit the use of force based on 'military necessity' and allow 'proportionate' civilian casualties. Where those laws do not apply, the use of force is generally seen as being limited to self-defence. This creates paradigms of armed conflict and law-enforcement with very different rules. The paradigms are then treated by governments and other actors as being separate and divided by a threshold of violence, when, in practice, they overlap, both in the conduct of military operations and, this book argues, as a matter of law. Revisiting the law provides the opportunity to reassess the benefits and risks of the existing paradigms and consider how applying the provision permitting the use of lethal force in quelling an insurrection would affect them. The book concludes that it offers a middle way based on the existing law, but it requires wider recognition and development in order to achieve a more appropriate balance between human rights and collective security.

This book challenges traditional legal approaches to military operations in internal armed conflicts based on the laws of war.

Lethal force, Human Rights and the Laws of War

Quelling Insurrection

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different. On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans from a woman named Isabella Perman. One of them was journalist Eugene Robinson’s great-great-grandfather, a boy called Harry. Starting from this transaction, which took place in Charleston, South Carolina, Freedom Lost, Freedom Won brings to life two hundred years of our nation’s history through the eyes of the remarkable family that Harry founded. Assigned a formal name—Henry Fordham—and put to work as a blacksmith, he achieved his own freedom a decade before the Civil War. He was there when victorious Union troops marched into Charleston in 1865, ending slavery and guaranteeing liberty for Black people—only on paper, though, and only for a time. Robinson traces the arc of his familial lineage through the repeated cycles in which African Americans have fought their way upward toward freedom and opportunity, been forced back down again, and renewed their determined climb. From his great-great-grandfather’s achievement in becoming a “free person of color” before emancipation to his great-grandfather’s Reconstruction-era success, from his father’s odyssey of the Great Migration to his own coming-of-age during the civil rights movement, Robinson delves into a rich archive of Black narratives, arguing that we still have a long way to go before it is possible to speak of a “post-racial America.” Setting his extensive research within the larger historical context, Robinson provides both an indictment of structural racism and an illustration of how it has been fought and, at times, courageously overcome. Freedom Lost, Freedom Won tells our country’s tortuous racial history through Robinson’s family’s story of struggle and survival, pushing us to consider how far the nation has come—willingly or not—and how far it still has to go.

A Personal History of America

Freedom Lost, Freedom Won

A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life—her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art. Always opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.

A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

Red Rosa

This book offers the first ever in-depth analysis of the emerging constitutionalism in South Sudan and the challenges it faces. The book critically analyses the constitution-making processes that occurred in South Sudan between 2005 and 2011, finding, among other things, that there was a failure of constitutional discourse, particularly in relation to the 2011 drafting process of the Transitional Constitution. It goes on to analyse how the constitution is being implemented. It finds that, despite the clear division of powers and functions between the national government and the sub-national governments, what has emerged in South Sudan in the post-constitution-making period is a form of coercive centralism where the national government controls much of the political decision-making process. This has had serious implications for democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law. Finally, bearing in mind the failure in both how the transitional constitution was made and how it is being implemented, the book undertakes a critical analysis of the proposed process for drafting a new constitution for South Sudan. It identifies serious shortcomings and proposes how these could be addressed to enhance the process.

Challenges and Opportunities

Emerging Constitutionalism in South Sudan

A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novel'Brilliant...heartbreaking...utterly compelling' David Peace Deep in a tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape modern life by dedicating themselves to charity work and raising their baby, Helen. But their idyllic isolation is shattered when an outsider arrives with frightening news: across the border, violence is looming. Kit unwittingly holds evidence, hidden in a memory card, of a world-shattering event that is unfolding. Separated from Lara and with war erupting around them, he and Helen are forced to flee through the forest, hunted by a ruthless army. Caught between the struggle of rival powers, Kit must keep his daughter alive and protect a secret worth killing for... 'A breakneck political thriller' Herald 'Explosive...thrilling' Johann Hari 'Immersive and immensely readable, never not terrifying' Richard Beard 'In Kit, Richard Lloyd Parry has created a hero for our time' TLS

In the Green Heart

We don’t go to HEAVEN when we die. We go HERE and have to fight to survive with everyone we ever knew in our time on Earth—both the good AND the bad. Mark Millar, the master storyteller behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman, joins revered Batman artist Greg Capullo on a best-selling epic graphic novel adventure. Bonnie Black has no faith in an afterlife. Spending her last days in the stroke ward of a county hospital, she fears falling asleep in case she doesn't wake up. When a final stroke ends her life, Bonnie is reborn in Adystria—a sci-fi, fantasy world that's locked in a raging battle between good and evil. She's twenty-five again, there's a sword in her hand and she's ready to fight. She meets her dad, Tom, and her childhood dog in this strange new world, but there is no sign of Harry—her husband who was murdered over ten years before. With the help of her dad and loyal pet, Bonnie sets off on an epic quest to be reunited with the lost love of her life. But it's not just her family that have been waiting for Bonnie. Her arrival has been prophesied, and there's a tremendous evil lying in wait. An evil that will stop at nothing to destroy her. An evil that can only be sated with blood. Collected for the first time in a deluxe, oversized hardcover format with a dustjacket! For mature audiences.

Reborn Library Edition

Hello, World!

Timed for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — America's 250th birthday! — comes a board book to teach the littlest readers about the United States. From Hello, World!, a bestselling nonfiction series for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Kids can learn all about the USA in this cheerful and informative board book—with super-simple facts about the history, geography, and government of our country. ("The president’s house is called the White House.") Told in easy-to-understand terms alongside bright illustrations of the flag, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, voting day, a US map, and a landscape of mountains, deserts, prairies, forests, and oceans,&nbsp;this sturdy book makes learning easy for little ones and offers useful prompts to help adults engage with the reader on each page. It's a perfect way to share America's past and present with your little ones during this important 250th anniversary year.

Celebrate America's 250th birthday with a board book to teach the littlest readers about the United States and its origins. From Hello, World!, a bestselling nonfiction series for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Kids can learn all about the USA in this cheerful and informative board book—with super-simple facts about the history, geography, and government of our country. ("The president’s house is called the White House.") Told in easy-to-understand terms alongside bright illustrations of the flag, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, voting day, a US map, and a landscape of mountains, deserts, prairies, forests, and oceans, this sturdy book makes learning easy for little ones and offers useful prompts to help adults engage with the reader on each page. It's a perfect way to share America's past and present with your little ones during this important 250th anniversary year. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: Solar System • Weather • Backyard Bugs • Birds • Dinosaurs • My Body • How Do Apples Grow? • Ocean Life • Moon Landing • Pets • Arctic Animals • Construction Site • Rainforest Animals • Planet Earth • Reptiles • Cars and Trucks • Music • Baby Animals • On the Farm • Garden Time • Planes and Other Flying Machines • Rocks and Minerals • Snow • Let's Go Camping • School Day • Bedtime • From Seed to Pumpkin • Rockets and Other Space Machines • Baking • Soccer • USA

Hello, World! USA

Gunnar Hering Lectures

Istanbul's population greatly suffered during WWI. Sanitary problems, pauperization, mortality rise deteriorated everyday life. The flows of refugees and military mobilization were major issues. Paradoxically, its Greek orthodox community increased in 1914-1918. After the Mudros Armistice (October 1918), it could hope for the Ottoman Empire's dismemberment and the return of Constantinople to the Greek fold. The events that followed and led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey would put an end to their expectations. The deterioration of everyday material life, the loyalty of Istanbul Greeks to the Ottoman State in wartime, ordinary people's position towards Hellenic irredentism are the main themes explored through the archives of Greek Orthodox parishes of the city and those of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The Greeks of the City among Shortage, Hope and Collapse

Istanbul 1914-1922

The return of a revered revolutionary and the meaning of independence in a divided nation-in the 1820s and todayIn 1824, the legendary French hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, commenced an epic tour of the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe. On this fourteen-month trip across all twenty-four states, Lafayette (1757-1834) witnessed an evolving young nation grappling with its ideals, achievements, and challenges: a contested yet peaceful presidential election, engineering marvels like the Erie Canal, and the persistent tragedy of slavery. Journalist and historian Richard Brookhiser shows us what Lafayette saw on this storied adventure through the fifty-year-old republic-hoopla, oratory, journalism, struggle, failure, and idealism.As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, Brookhiser invites readers to ponder the same critical question posed by Lafayette and his contemporaries: How well has America upheld the promise of its revolution? With vivid storytelling and acute insight, Brookhiser reflects on an era marked by triumph and turbulence-an era with compelling parallels to the present-and offers enduring lessons on liberty and democracy.

Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution

The Hero Returns

The global challenge to democracy in historical perspective.

A Historical View

Fascism and the Global Far Right

Der #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Autor Larson erweckt die entscheidenden fünf Monate zwischen der Wahl Abraham Lincolns und dem Beginn des Bürgerkriegs zum Leben.
 Am 6. November 1860 wurde Abraham Lincoln zum unbekümmerten Sieger in einem knappen Rennen um das Präsidentenamt. Das Land war unerbittlich zerstritten; Die Extremisten des Südens kamen der Zerstörung der Union immer näher, wobei sich ein Staat nach dem anderen abspaltete und Lincoln machtlos war, sie aufzuhalten. Die Sklaverei heizte den Konflikt an, aber irgendwie konzentrierten sich die Leidenschaften des Nordens und des Südens auf eine einsame Bundesfestung im Hafen von Charleston: Fort Sumter.Der meisterhafte Geschichtenerzähler Erik Larson bietet einen packenden Bericht über die chaotischen Monate zwischen Lincolns Wahl und dem Beschuss von Sumter durch die Konföderierten - eine Zeit, die von tragischen Fehlern und Missverständnissen, entflammten Egos und feigen Ambitionen, persönlichen Tragödien und Verrat geprägt war. Lincoln selbst schrieb, dass die Prüfungen dieser fünf Monate "so groß waren, dass ich, wenn ich sie hätte vorhersehen können, nicht geglaubt hätte, dass es möglich wäre, sie zu überleben".
 Im Mittelpunkt dieser spannungsgeladenen Erzählung stehen Major Robert Anderson, Sumters Kommandant und ehemaliger Sklavenhalter, der mit dem Süden sympathisiert, aber der Union treu ist; Edmund Ruffin, ein eitler und blutrünstiger Radikaler, der bei jeder Gelegenheit sezessionistische Begeisterung schürt; und Mary Boykin Chesnut, die Ehefrau eines prominenten Pflanzers, im inneren Konflikt über Ehe und Sklaverei und denen für sie augenscheinlichen Parallelen zwischen beidem. Mittendrin steht der überwältigte Lincoln, der mit seinem doppelzüngigen Außenminister William Seward kämpft, während er verzweifelt versucht, einen Krieg abzuwenden, den er für unvermeidlich befürchtet - einen, der schließlich 750.000 Amerikaner töten wird.
 

 Anhand von Tagebüchern, geheimen Mitteilungen, Sklavenbüchern und Plantagenaufzeichnungen erzählt uns Larson eine politische Horrorgeschichte, die die Kräfte einfängt, die Amerika an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben - 
 eine düstere Erinnerung daran, dass wir eine Katastrophe oft erst kommen sehen, wenn es zu spät ist.

Der #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Autor Larson erweckt die entscheidenden fünf Monate zwischen der Wahl Abraham Lincolns und dem Beginn des Bürgerkriegs zum Leben.Am 6. November 1860 wurde Abraham Lincoln zum unbekümmerten Sieger in einem knappen Rennen um das Präsidentenamt. Das Land war unerbittlich zerstritten; Die Extremisten des Südens kamen der Zerstörung der Union immer näher, wobei sich ein Staat nach dem anderen abspaltete und Lincoln machtlos war, sie aufzuhalten. Die Sklaverei heizte den Konflikt an, aber irgendwie konzentrierten sich die Leidenschaften des Nordens und des Südens auf eine einsame Bundesfestung im Hafen von Charleston: Fort Sumter.Der meisterhafte Geschichtenerzähler Erik Larson bietet einen packenden Bericht über die chaotischen Monate zwischen Lincolns Wahl und dem Beschuss von Sumter durch die Konföderierten – eine Zeit, die von tragischen Fehlern und Missverständnissen, entflammten Egos und feigen Ambitionen, persönlichen Tragödien und Verrat geprägt war. Lincoln selbst schrieb, dass die Prüfungen dieser fünf Monate "so groß waren, dass ich, wenn ich sie hätte vorhersehen können, nicht geglaubt hätte, dass es möglich wäre, sie zu überleben".
 Im Mittelpunkt dieser spannungsgeladenen Erzählung stehen Major Robert Anderson, Sumters Kommandant und ehemaliger Sklavenhalter, der mit dem Süden sympathisiert, aber der Union treu ist; Edmund Ruffin, ein eitler und blutrünstiger Radikaler, der bei jeder Gelegenheit sezessionistische Begeisterung schürt; und Mary Boykin Chesnut, die Ehefrau eines prominenten Pflanzers, im inneren Konflikt über Ehe und Sklaverei und denen für sie augenscheinlichen Parallelen zwischen beidem. Mittendrin steht der überwältigte Lincoln, der mit seinem doppelzüngigen Außenminister William Seward kämpft, während er verzweifelt versucht, einen Krieg abzuwenden, den er für unvermeidlich befürchtet – einen, der schließlich 750.000 Amerikaner töten wird.
 
 Anhand von Tagebüchern, geheimen Mitteilungen, Sklavenbüchern und Plantagenaufzeichnungen erzählt uns Larson eine politische Horrorgeschichte, die die Kräfte einfängt, die Amerika an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben – 
 eine düstere Erinnerung daran, dass wir eine Katastrophe oft erst kommen sehen, wenn es zu spät ist.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Der Dämon der Zwietracht

Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics

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