Product Description: Persian Empire, Pariah State, Nuclear Partner After decades of political and cultural isolation, Iran faces a new chapter in its 2500-year-old history. Following the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iran will re-enter international trade markets and be reinstated in the eyes of the West...read more

Product Description: Lightning Guides' Immortality: Live Forever or Die Trying explores an historical obsession with eternal life. Featuring tales of chronicled figures (like Ponce de Leon and his supposed search for the Fountain of Youth, and Henrietta Lacks and her undying genes) and material phenomena (from ambrosia of the Greek Gods to cryonics and virtual immortality), Immortality presents a lust for perpetual youth alongside the human desire to live forever...read more

Product Description: Water Wars: Fight to the Last Drop questions whether water—a necessary resource that has both powered nations and caused their downfalls—has become the oil of the 21st century. Exploring environmental scarcity, global business, privatization, and hotspots of projected future conflict, Water Wars illuminates the more controversial side of what da Vinci once called " the driving force of all life...read more

Product Description: The Artist, The Genius, The Legend Leonardo da Vinci’s legacy is everywhere: from bridges to helicopters, fashion to fiction, flying machines, human anatomy, not to mention some of the most compelling artworks ever created by man...read more

Product Description: Cults: In Too Deep From Jonestown to Scientology explores 20th and 21st Century cults and the 1960's American culture by which many of them were birthed.  From Then Manson Family to The Ripper Crew to Scientology, Cults provides an in-depth look at America's religious and social cults, their nefarious leaders, and the millions of lives they have stolen...read more

Product Description: Presidential Scandals: Jefferson to Obama explores the interior lives of America's leading men.  From Grant to Nixon, Reagan to Clinton,Presidential Scandals, takes its reader through over 100 years of unexplored American history, uncovering romance, financial indiscretions, murder accusations, and revealing more secrets and government cover-ups than anyone could imagine...read more

Product Description: North Korea: Unmasking Three Generations of Mad Men explores the mysterious legacy of the Kim family. From the annexation of Korea by Japan to the painful separation of North and South Korea following WWII, to the cult of personality created by Kim Il-Sung, North Korea will examine the context that created one of the most mysterious, fascinating, and frightening dictatorships in modern history...read more

Product Description: Voices of Black America: Martin Luther King Jr. to Jay Z, explores African-American resistance and revolutionary practice from the Civil Rights Movement to #BlackLivesMatter. Exploring a diversity of issues from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Nation of Islam, African liberation struggles to Black Feminism, Rodney King to Ferguson, Voices explores and illuminates some of America’s most talented and provocative black voices...read more

Product Description: Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US. Exploring America's relationship with Cuba, the many political forces that have shaped the country's identity including communism, Batista, and The United Fruit Company; the conflicted legacy of Che Guevara; and the current relationship between Fidel and Raul Castro and President Obama, Cuba contextualizes what the future holds for the Pearl of the Antilles...read more

Product Description: Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, and the Modern Revolution, explores the myriad ways in which social media has influenced, created, and exposed some of the 21st century's most pivotal moments. From the early days of social networking to the Arab Spring and its winter, the idea of the technoself and the ways that technology has helped both individuals and groups shape their own identities to the issues of privacy and permanency in a digital world, Social Media evaluates everything from Twitter fails to the Occupy movement, and how the evolution of social media has impacted the evolution of society...read more