Hammer and Sickle

How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle

World Transformed

"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War." -"The New York Tmes Book Review "Among the finest expositions of modern American foreign policy. . . . An excellent book." -Eugene V. Rostow, "The Wall Street Journal It was a pivotal administration in the history of American forei...

Czechoslovakia

Take a journey into the borderland of the Red Empire, during an ideological battle that saw the world ripped in half. Dare to step into communist Czechoslovakia, where the controlled East and the free West converged at their closest. This is a story of ordinary people caught up in the midst of the 2...

Party of One - Chun Han Wong, Little, Brown Book Group

'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged ta...

The Andy Warhol Catalogue RaisonnePaintings 1976–1978, V 5 - Sally King-Nero, Phaidon Press Ltd

The highly anticipated fifth volume of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, covering his paintings from 1976 to 1978 This two-book addition to The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne persuasively demonstrates the subversive core of Warhol's art. Intent on radical departure from his portraiture in the earl...

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne - Sally King-Nero, Andy Warhol Foundation

The highly anticipated fifth volume of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, covering his paintings from 1976 to 1978. This two-book addition to The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne persuasively demonstrates the subversive core of Warhol's art. Intent on radical departure from his portraiture in the ear...

Soviet Signs & Street Relics

French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. The subjects of these unlikely photographs are incidental to the purpose of Google Street View - captured by serendipity, rather than ...

Soviet Strategic Bombers: The Hammer in the Hammer and the Sickle (Moore Jason)

The history of Soviet strategic bombers after the Second World War is a fascinating one: from the reverse-engineering of interned American Boeing B-29 bombers into the first Soviet strategic bomber, the Tu-4; to the huge jet and turboprop powered aircraft of todays Russian Air Force. This comprehens...

The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes (Starn Orin)

On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Perus presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning la...

Berlin Blockade (Van Tonder Gerry)

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe--with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no...