Product Description: Personal account of Falkland born artist James Peck, who took Argentine citizenship to live with his two children and whose father was a war hero during the 1982 conflict on the British side. Reflective and unedited it's unassuming style does contain some gems on self examination as well as a critique of the political situation, both before and after the conflict...read more

Product Description: A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art. His vast assemblage includes paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many of the Southwest’s most renowned artists and artisans...read more

Product Description: This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not merely to "contain" the People's Republic of China but to isolate it from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Why, in other words, was American policy more hostile to China than to the Soviet Union, at least until President Nixon visited China in 1972?The answer, as set out here, lies in the fear of China's emergence as a power capable of challenging the new Asian order the United States sought to shape in the wake of World War II...read more

Product Description: This gripping memoir by the only foreigner ever raised in the innermost world of China's powerful and reclusive leadership provides a unique portrait of the near-mythic figure who led the Communist Revolution. Eight pages of photos.

Political essays examine topics including equality, Soviet-American relations, the Vietnam War, and the conflicts in Central America