Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America-frequently in less than a generation’s time-out of poverty into positions of both…

Our Crowd is Stephen Birmingham’s New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.

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National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in debates about Muslim minorities in the West. Britain is no exception, with politicians responding to claims about Muslims’ lack of integration…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

This undergraduate textbook introduces the basic chemical concepts underlying a sound understanding of the environment. The new edition includes sections introducing biogeochemical cycling, toxic chemicals and climate studies.

This new edition of Cooperative Strategy provides a comprehensive view of the practical and theoretical literature concerning cooperative strategies, and the alliance and network organizational forms that are the enablers…