Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West
10 best books like Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West (Rubén Martínez): To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War, Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China, In My Family/En mi familia, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), Tijuana Book of the Dead, Trees in Paradise: A California History, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir, Amexica: War Along the Borderline, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
| Author | John Gibler |
| ISBN | 0872865177 |
Combining on the ground reporting and in-depth discussions with people on the frontlines of Mexico's drug war, To Die in Mexico tells behind the scenes stories that address the causes and consequences of Mexico's multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking business. John Gibler looks beyond the cops-and-robbers...
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
| Author | Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
| ISBN | 0393239535 |
The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic,...
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China
| Author | Pin Ho |
| ISBN | 1610392736 |
The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.
The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family—the...
| Author | Carmen Lomas Garza |
| ISBN | 0892391634 |
In her eagerly-awaited second book for children, In My Family/En mi familia, internationally-renowned artist Carmen Lomas Garza takes us once again to her hometown of Kingsville, Texas, near the border with Mexico. Through vibrant paintings and warm personal stories, Carmen brings to life more...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| ISBN | 1619024829 |
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers...
| Author | Jared Farmer |
| ISBN | 0393078027 |
California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists,...
| Author | Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0299186342 |
Working closely with Muir’s family and with his papers, Wolfe was able to create a full portrait of her subject, not only as America’s firebrand conservationist and founder of the national park system, but also as husband, father, and friend. All readers who have admired Muir’s ruggedly individualistic...
| Author | Ed Vulliamy |
| ISBN | 0374104417 |
Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—“a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither”—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there.
In 2009, after reporting from the border...
The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
| Author | Ian Thomson |
| ISBN | 0571227619 |
Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.
Jamaica is now a country...
Black Code: The Battle for the Future of Cyberspace
| Author | Ronald J. Deibert |
| ISBN | 0771025335 |
One of the world's leading internet experts takes readers into the shadowy realm of cyberspace and cybersecurity, revealing how it has transformed our world and the new rules we will need to adopt in order to survive.
In the twenty-first century, most of us experience a highly dynamic...
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
| Author | Kwasi Kwarteng |
| ISBN | 0747599416 |
The British Empire was the creation of a tremendous outpouring of energy and opportunism, when the British were at their most self-confident, and the wealth they gathered was prodigious. At its heart lay a sense of the rectitude of the British way of life, meted out to vast swathes of the rest of the world...
Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
| Author | Emily Brady |
| ISBN | 1455506761 |
In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.
Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might...
Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848
| Author | Adam Zamoyski |
| ISBN | 0465039898 |
After the French Revolution, conservative governments from Britain to Russia created bulwarks to protect their power against the threat of further rebellions. They repressed and spied on their citizens, policing both speech and actions. In nations across Europe, politicians and cultural leaders...
| Author | John Smolens |
| ISBN | 0307351890 |
On a stifling, hot afternoon in September 1901, a young anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, who has been stalking President William McKinley, waits in line to meet the president, his right hand wrapped in a handkerchief and held across his chest as though it were in a sling. But the handkerchief conceals a .32-caliber...
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction...
Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street Are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio
| Author | Sal L. Arnuk |
| ISBN | 0132875241 |
The markets have evolved at breakneck speed during the past decade, and change has accelerated dramatically since 2007's disastrous regulatory "reforms." An unrelenting focus on technology, hyper-short-term trading, speed, and volume has eclipsed sanity: markets have been hijacked by high-powered...
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
| Author | Geoffrey Parker |
| ISBN | 0300153236 |
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America,...
Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
FROM INSIDE OBAMA’S SITUATION ROOM . . . THE CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN, THE STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH A RECALCITRANT PAKISTAN AND ITS FAST-GROWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL, THE TENSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN MILITARY OVER AFGANISTAN AND WITH ALLIES SWEPT UP IN THE CHAOS OF THE ARAB SPRING
Three...
Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic
A compilation of some of The Atlantic’s most important writings on race and society over the past century and a half, featuring W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more.
Since 1857, when a group of radical...
I thought it was more of a lecture made to interlink heavy topics and make us see the machinery we feed every day. She does not touch on new topics, more than other scholars, maybe prison systems are her expertise, but I will give her 4 ⭐ for connecting the dots effortlessly for me. Which is far more valuable.
What...
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
| Author | Walter R. Borneman |
| ISBN | 1400065615 |
From acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman comes a dazzling account of the battle to build America’s transcontinental rail lines. Rival Rails is an action-packed epic of how an empire was born—and the remarkable men who made it happen.
After the completion of the first transcontinental...
Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
| Author | Charles Bowden |
| ISBN | 0292722079 |
Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2011
What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where police work for the drug cartels? Where the meanings of words such as "border" and "crime"...
In the World Interior of Capital: For a Philosophical Theory of Globalization
| Author | Peter Sloterdijk |
| ISBN | 0745647685 |
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosophical consequences...
Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal
| Author | Eric Dezenhall |
| ISBN | 1455582972 |
In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant-GLASS JAW is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management.
In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets of controversy....
