China and the world in a changing context : perspectives from ambassadors to China /

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Question bridge : Black males in America /

With or without you : the prospect for Jews in today's Russia / by Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-

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The apprentice : Trump, Russia and the subversion of American democracy / by Miller, Greg, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The hack -- Putin's trolls -- Moths to the flame -- "I believe you have some information for us" -- The missing emails -- Crossfire hurricane -- Deep inside the Kremlin -- Dezinformatsiya -- The Russian ambassador -- Briefing the president -- You're fired -- The special counsel strikes -- "I can't put on the charm" -- Helsinki.…”

The Americans / by Roderick, David

Table of Contents: “…Dear suburb, -- After de Tocqueville -- On the bullet train from Hiroshima -- Letter to Shara in Amman -- Build your dream home here -- California clouds -- Dear suburb, -- Target -- Love field -- Ambassador Hotel -- Terra incognita -- Pale tornado -- Dear suburb, -- Self-portrait as David Lynch -- In my name -- Koi -- Self-portrait as David Hockney -- Western wind -- Pastoral -- Akhmatova's ashtray -- 44 Standish Avenue -- 35 Miller Drive -- Green fields -- 13 Pleasant Street -- New directive -- Landscape with tyrian purple -- Dear suburb, -- Thoreau's beans -- As when drought imagines fire -- Passionflower -- Dear suburb, -- The locusts -- Running bush -- Dear suburb, -- Eros and dust -- Running brush -- Faithful see Virgin Mary in office window.…”
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Henry James in contemporary fiction : the real thing / by Layne, Bethany

Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya : lessons for Africa in the forging of African unity / by Campbell, Horace

Table of Contents: “…-- Tawerga and the myth of "African mercenaries" -- The execution of Gaddafi -- NATO's Libyan mission: a catastrophic failure -- European isolation in Africa -- Failure begets failure: the NATO quagmire in Libya consumes the U.S. ambassador to Libya -- "Libya all in": a culture of dysfunctionality in the U.S. military and its explosion in the U.S. political system -- Conclusion: NATO and the processes of failure and destruction in Libya -- Afterword by Ali A. …”
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Guide to Greece : poems / by Kalogeris, George

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; Basil; ONE; Guide to greece; Ambassador of the Dead; Singing Contests; Odysseus Seeing Laertes; Heads of the Hydra; Filo; Source of the Styx; Name Day; A Fragment from Three Secret Poems; TWO; The Deaf-Blind Girl; Language and Darkness; Thebes; Choreography; Sitari; Ataraxia; THREE; Emma; Pulp Fiction; Panopeus; Thelpousa; Poseidonians; Poseidonians II; Jackie O Dead; Home from Greece; Tour Guide for the Romans; The Philippeum (168 B.C.E; Arsino; Ancient Athens on PBS; FOUR; Hermes; The Scholars Critique Pausanias' Style; Idiot Savant; Gorgon; Achilles in the Underworld; FIVE…”
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Daughters of the Nile : Egyptian women changing their world /

Table of Contents: “…Crossing Cultures TwiceMy Journey into Mosaics; From Cosmopolitan Alexandria to the "Loveliest Village" in Alabama; The Power of Flowers; Passionate Pursuits; A Message from a Top Communication Expert; My Journey as Egypt's Ambassador to Switzerland; Contributors…”
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The outrage industry : political opinion media and the new incivility / by Berry, Jeffrey M., 1948-, Sobieraj, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…ImmigrationPulled Off Center; OUTRAGE AS A LOBBYING STRATEGY; SYNERGY; NOTES; CHAPTER 8:The Future of Outrage; CONFLICTING METRICS OF SUCCESS; The Expansion of the Public Sphere; Outrage and Democratic Life; RESISTANCE, INDUSTRY LIMITS, AND THE FUTURE OF OUTRAGE; Not Everyone Loves Outrage; Public Unease; Ambassadors of Civility; The Satire Circuit; THE LIMITS OF OUTRAGE; Boycotts and Advertiser Anxieties; Regulation and the Courts; A Market for Conventional Political Opinion?…”
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In the middle of the future : Tom Plate on Asia / by Plate, Tom

Table of Contents: “…China and America: The case of the talkative ambassador.…”
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Open government, open diplomacy : conversations with a former American diplomat M. André Goodfriend /

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