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The Gods Drink Whiskey

By Stephen T Asma

This funny, action-packed travelogue through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka introduces readers to the basics of Buddhism in a way that could not be more entertaining, nor more thought-provoking. This is a "Year of Living Dangerously" that provides a compelling look into the clash of civilizations in a little-known corner of our shrinking world.

Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Published by: HarperOne

Available in: Paperback (9780060834500)

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High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia

By Will Doig

"A decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of over 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined. Now China is pushing its tracks into Southeast Asia, reviving a century-old colonial fantasy of an imperial railroad stretching to Singapore and kicking off a key piece of the One Belt One Road initiative, which has a price tag of $1 trillion and reaches inside the borders of more than 60 countries. The Pan-Asia Railway portion of One Belt One Road could transform Southeast Asia, bringing new cities, economies, and migrants to places where none existed before. But if it doesn't succeed, that would be a cautionary tale about whether a new superpower, with levels of global authority unimaginable just a decade ago, can pull entire regions into its orbit simply with tracks, sweat, and lots of money. Journalist Will Doig traveled to Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore to chronicle the dramatic transformations taking place--and the ordinary people caught up in this moment of economic, political, and cultural collision.

Published: Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Published by: Columbia Global Reports

Available in: Paperback (9780997722987)

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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

By Geoffrey B Robinson

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.

Published: Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780691161389)

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Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan

By Scott Mann

A tense real-life thriller follows a group of retired Green Berets as they worked together to save a former comrade, along with five hundred Afghans, right before the ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul airport amidst the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Published: Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Published by: Simon & Schuster

Available in: Hardcover (9781668003534)

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The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency: Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes

By M L R Smith, David Jones

The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency--a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results.

Published: Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Published by: Columbia University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780231170000)

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Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper

By Howard E Wasdin, Stephen Templin

For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.

Published: Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Published by: St Martin's Press

Available in: Mass Market Paperbound (9781250055088)

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Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper

By Jody Mitic

Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through sniper training, and firefights in Afghanistan, culminating on the fateful night when he stepped on a landmine and lost both of his legs below the knees. A twenty-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Jody Mitic served as a Master Corporal and Sniper Team Leader on three active tours of duty over the course of seven years. Known for his deadly marksmanship, his fearlessness in the face of danger, and his "never quit" attitude, he was a key player on the front in Afghanistan. As a sniper, he secured strongholds from rooftops, engaged in perilous ground combat, and joined classified night operations to sniff out the enemy. One day in 2007, when he was on a mission in a small Afghan village, he stepped on a landmine and the course of his life was forever changed.

Published: Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Published by: Simon & Schuster

Available in: Paperback (9781476795119)

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The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy

By Robert O'Neill, Dakota Meyer

"War stories meet inspiring lessons in this straight-shooting and darkly funny account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields and in daily lives, from ... United States service members and ... authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer"--

Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Published by: Dey Street Books

Available in: Hardcover (9780062994073)

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Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage

By Tilar J Mazzeo

"In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling them out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven to extreme measures and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately smuggled thousands of children past the Nazis. She made dangerous trips through the city's sewers, hid children in coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through secret passages in abandoned buildings. But Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war.

Published: Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Published by: Gallery Books

Available in: Paperback (9781476778518)

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Einstein in Bohemia

By Michael D Gordin

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode.

Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780691177373)

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The Gods Drink Whiskey

High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan

The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency: Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes

Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper

Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper

The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy

Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage

Einstein in Bohemia

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