The Passage of Power, Caro covers Johnson's life from 1958 to 1964, the challenges Johnson faced upon his assumption of the presidency, and the significant accomplishments in the months after Kennedy's assassination

The book is a presentation of the report "Global Trends 2030" and is largely focused on influencing American politics

This book lays out Clausewitz's methodology in a brisk and straightforward style. It uses that as a basis for understanding his contributions to the ever growing body of knowledge of war

In this analysis of Putin's Russia, Miller examines economic policy and the tools Russia's elite have used to achieve the great power of Russia

This book aims to redress state of affairs and re-examines John Boyd’s original contribution to strategic theory

Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination

In this volume on Stability Economics begins to fill the gap that expeditionary economics did not: the operational details - theoretical relationship between economics and security, strategic, political, and environmental contexts do military planners need to consider in order to write economic development lines of effort into operations, etc

Kahneman's research has shown that people's constant thinking errors are caused more by the mechanism of thinking itself than by the influence of emotions. Today, researchers agree with the thesis that our minds are prone to systematic errors. Kahneman's main idea is to demonstrate the workings of the mind, taking into account the latest discoveries in cognitive and social psychology

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the Gettysburg victory and Ballard makes a convincing case that it was equally important to the ultimate resolution of the conflict

In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is told through a selection of powerfully moving artifacts from the 9/11 museum’s collection that serve as touchstones to the day and its aftermath