influence

Presents one hundred life lessons learned from hip-hop songs and artists, reflecting on how hip-hop culture shaped the author's way of thinking, writing, and living, exploring themes of love, business, and spirituality.

Discusses the true cost of America's victory in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, arguing that the U.S. not only expended money on warheads, foreign aid, soldiers, propaganda, and intelligence, it also paid the price in wasted time and talent in industry, science, education, trade, and the loss of public confidence.

Examines the effects of the Vietnam War on the U.S. military, postwar-Vietnam politics, America as a whole, and war possibilities in the twenty-first century.

Presents a memoir by a young Palestinian man who rejected his militant past to become the leader of a peace movement.

In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.