The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of satisfying them. This work is a fascinating combination of detailed historical analysis and a far-reaching Utopian vision. It serves as a step-by-step guide to social revolution, detailing the concrete means of achieving it and the world that humanity’s "constructive genius" is capable of creating.

This edition includes a new introduction that situates the work historically and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin’s ideas.

The Holocaust Industry is a controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. Norman G. Finkelstein presents an iconoclastic and controversial study, moving from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements.

It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength aligned with US foreign policy, that the memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their interpretations of the tragedy often vary from actual historical events and are employed to deflect criticism of Israel and its supporters.

Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein argues that the main danger to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, concluding that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.

Thoroughly researched and closely argued, this book is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it addresses are so rarely discussed.

One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.

In the end, April 1865 emerged as not just the tale of the war's denouement, but the story of the making of our nation. Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning.

Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history and filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.