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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You have been holding your breath since January 6th. You have watched a felony conviction fail to disqualify a presidency, a national monument shrink by ninety percent overnight, an airport rename itself after the man who flies out of it, and a foreign head of state get dragged into a Manhattan courtroom, and you still cannot tell if any of it is supposed to be normal now. It is not the first time. In 1876, Philadelphia staged a vast exhibition to celebrate a hundred years of American progress in the same year Reconstruction was being dismantled by force a few hundred miles south. In 1877, the guardrails did not break. They bent, in a backroom deal that traded away a decade of civil rights for political peace. The bending did not feel like collapse at the time. It rarely does. Between Two Centennials is written directly to you, the reader who is still awake to what is happening. Seven essays braid the gold leaf and the branding, the guardrails and what it costs to keep them bent, the cruelty that has become administrative routine, and the incoherence of a government that mistakes force for strategy, against their nearest historical mirror: the Centennial year that also could not tell the difference between celebration and collapse. This is not a comfort. It is a way of naming things precisely enough to stop holding your breath and start seeing clearly. You have been holding your breath. This is permission to name why. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A DAY LINCOLN ASKED FOR. A HABIT WE STOPPED PRACTICING. In the middle of a war he had not wanted and could not yet win, Abraham Lincoln asked the country to do something almost nobody asks of a country anymore. He asked it to feel embarrassed. Not at an enemy. At itself. Day of Embarrassment takes that 1861 proclamation seriously and asks what it would look like practiced today, at the scale of a DMV line, a shouting match at a public meeting, a block party gone slightly wrong, a feed refreshed one too many times, a monument that only tells half its story. Nine essays, moving from institutions to neighborhoods to the self, build toward a single, quiet argument: a nation that can no longer embarrass itself has lost a skill worth relearning, and the place to relearn it is not in the news. It is in the mirror.This is not an outrage book. It is a discipline, borrowed from 1861 and handed back to the reader, one ordinary day at a time. The Republic can still hold up a mirror to itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE NAMES ARRIVE AFTER THE NUMBERS. THE RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD NOT. A tanker slows in the Strait of Hormuz because a missile is more immediate than international law. A casualty total changes after the briefing has ended. A promotion list reaches the final desk with every woman removed. Congress debates a war it has never clearly authorized. A nuclear agreement permits a capability that may outlast the government trusted to possess it. In The Uncounted, Gerard Tod turns to the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam's body counts, Truman's removal of General MacArthur, the old statutory ceilings placed over women in uniform, and America's nuclear partnership with the Shah of Iran. The parallels are not offered as easy repetitions. They reveal a recurring method: urgency narrows the question, authority spreads, and responsibility becomes harder to name. This is not a book asking readers to master military strategy or constitutional law. It asks four simpler questions: Who authorized it? What is the objective? Who has been killed or injured? What would cause the operation to end?The first book asked you to notice. The second asked you to check the proof. This one asks you to read the names. Accountability begins by keeping names attached to power. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE PRICE OF PROXIMITY IS NOW PUBLIC. In 193 AD, the Praetorian Guard murdered an emperor, climbed the walls of its own camp, and auctioned Rome to the highest bidder. Two men bid against each other, guardsman by guardsman, until Didius Julianus won at twenty-five thousand sesterces a head. He held the throne for sixty-six days. In 2026, a sitting president's media company began selling Wall Street trading firms early access to his own public statements, for up to one hundred thousand dollars a month. His family's cryptocurrency ventures generated, by independent estimate, roughly two point three billion dollars, drawn substantially from outside investors who lost a comparable sum on the other side of the same trades. Securities lawyers called the arrangement insider trading by another name. The regulator asked to investigate declined to comment. In The Praetorian Price, Gerard Tod turns to the auction on the Palatine, the sale of church office, the purchase of British army commissions, and the century-old law written after the last time American markets rewarded whoever stood closest to power, to ask a plain question: what does a republic look like once access to its own presidency has a sticker price, and who is actually paying it. This is not a book asking readers to master securities law or Roman history. It asks five simpler questions: Who is selling. What is being sold. Who set the price. Who is buying it. And what happens when the money cannot purchase the one thing it was supposed to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - THE NAMES ARRIVE AFTER THE NUMBERS. THE RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD NOT. A tanker slows in the Strait of Hormuz because a missile is more immediate than international law. A casualty total changes after the briefing has ended. A promotion list reaches the final desk with every woman removed. Congress debates a war it has never clearly authorized. A nuclear agreement permits a capability that may outlast the government trusted to possess it. In The Uncounted, Gerard Tod turns to the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam's body counts, Truman's removal of General MacArthur, the old statutory ceilings placed over women in uniform, and America's nuclear partnership with the Shah of Iran. The parallels are not offered as easy repetitions. They reveal a recurring method: urgency narrows the question, authority spreads, and responsibility becomes harder to name. This is not a book asking readers to master military strategy or constitutional law. It asks four simpler questions: Who authorized it What is the objective Who has been killed or injured What would cause the operation to end >Accountability begins by keeping names attached to power.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A DAY LINCOLN ASKED FOR. A HABIT WE STOPPED PRACTICING. In the middle of a war he had not wanted and could not yet win, Abraham Lincoln asked the country to do something almost nobody asks of a country anymore. He asked it to feel embarrassed. Not at an enemy. At itself. Day of Embarrassment takes that 1861 proclamation seriously and asks what it would look like practiced today, at the scale of a DMV line, a shouting match at a public meeting, a block party gone slightly wrong, a feed refreshed one too many times, a monument that only tells half its story. Nine essays, moving from institutions to neighborhoods to the self, build toward a single, quiet argument: a nation that can no longer embarrass itself has lost a skill worth relearning, and the place to relearn it is not in the news. It is in the mirror.>The Republic can still hold up a mirror to itself. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1854, British cavalry rode the length of a valley into a fully defended battery, because an order passed down a broken chain of command left no legitimate room to refuse it. The charge was not unlawful. It was catastrophic anyway, and for a century and a half its lesson has been mistaken for a story about courage rather than a story about command. In The Order and the Valley, Gerard Tod turns to the modern American military: a department renamed for war, the senior military lawyers dismissed for standing in its way, a September 2025 strike that reportedly left no survivors by design, and a president who has described his own Navy's operations as piracy. Using the doctrine built after Nuremberg to answer the question Balaclava never had to ask, the book asks what a service member owes an order, and what an order can never demand in return. This is not an argument for disobedience, and it does not ask readers to doubt the men and women who serve. It asks who is responsible for making sure the orders they are given deserve to be followed. The soldier may have to obey before every question is answered. The citizen does not. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - THE PRICE OF PROXIMITY IS NOW PUBLIC. In 193 AD, the Praetorian Guard murdered an emperor, climbed the walls of its own camp, and auctioned Rome to the highest bidder. Two men bid against each other, guardsman by guardsman, until Didius Julianus won at twenty-five thousand sesterces a head. He held the throne for sixty-six days. In 2026, a sitting president's media company began selling Wall Street trading firms early access to his own public statements, for up to one hundred thousand dollars a month. His family's cryptocurrency ventures generated, by independent estimate, roughly two point three billion dollars, drawn substantially from outside investors who lost a comparable sum on the other side of the same trades. Securities lawyers called the arrangement insider trading by another name. The regulator asked to investigate declined to comment. In The Praetorian Price, Gerard Tod turns to the auction on the Palatine, the sale of church office, the purchase of British army commissions, and the century-old law written after the last time American markets rewarded whoever stood closest to power, to ask a plain question: what does a republic look like once access to its own presidency has a sticker price, and who is actually paying it. This is not a book asking readers to master securities law or Roman history. It asks five simpler questions: Who is selling. What is being sold. Who set the price. Who is buying it. And what happens when the money cannot purchase the one thing it was supposed to.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In 1854, British cavalry rode the length of a valley into a fully defended battery, because an order passed down a broken chain of command left no legitimate room to refuse it. The charge was not unlawful. It was catastrophic anyway, and for a century and a half its lesson has been mistaken for a story about courage rather than a story about command. In The Order and the Valley, Gerard Tod turns to the modern American military: a department renamed for war, the senior military lawyers dismissed for standing in its way, a September 2025 strike that reportedly left no survivors by design, and a president who has described his own Navy's operations as piracy. Using the doctrine built after Nuremberg to answer the question Balaclava never had to ask, the book asks what a service member owes an order, and what an order can never demand in return. This is not an argument for disobedience, and it does not ask readers to doubt the men and women who serve. It asks who is responsible for making sure the orders they are given deserve to be followed. The soldier may have to obey before every question is answered. The citizen does not.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. I was ten years old the first time I watched this country turn an anniversary in doubt of itself. I am sixty now, and it is happening again.On the Republic's 250th birthday, a veteran of twenty-six years, a career built on watching quietly and reporting honestly, turns that same discipline on the nation he served. To Whom It May Still Concern is a collection of direct-address essays written not to Democrats or Republicans, but to the Republic itself: a testimony from someone who has served under presidents of both parties, under the same Constitution, and now watches an office he once saluted reduced to a brand.These are not partisan essays. They are a warning, and a love letter, from a man who has earned the right to grieve for what he still believes in. Each essay opens on a fragment of a life spent in service and widens into a reckoning: What happened to statesmen? When did net worth become mistaken for leadership? Can a nation still lead the world if it no longer leads itself?Bookended by two Fourths of July, one celebrated at ten, one mourned at sixty, this is a citizen's testimony for anyone who still believes the Republic is worth 250 more years, if it can remember what it was for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There's a line on the blacktop. There's always been a line on the blacktop. Donnie just noticed it. Room One is back, and so is Ellis, still watching, still asking the kind of question that makes the whole room go quiet for a second before everyone moves on like she didn't say anything. This time it's not about who's in charge. It's about what belongs to whom, who gets to decide that, and what happens to a classroom once everyone starts keeping score.Donnie has an idea. Pete thinks it's the best idea anyone has ever had. Bobby isn't sure what's safe to share anymore. Kash is, as always, writing it down. THE SANDBOX continues its deadpan, all-ages satire of a kindergarten that runs less like a classroom and more like a small, increasingly complicated country, where the rules keep moving, the lines keep multiplying, and the only person keeping an honest tally just turned six. Room One. Population: Five. Nobody's in charge. Everybody thinks they are. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - There's a line on the blacktop. There's always been a line on the blacktop. Donnie just noticed it. Room One is back, and so is Ellis, still watching, still asking the kind of question that makes the whole room go quiet for a second before everyone moves on like she didn't say anything. This time it's not about who's in charge. It's about what belongs to whom, who gets to decide that, and what happens to a classroom once everyone starts keeping score.>THE SANDBOX continues its deadpan, all-ages satire of a kindergarten that runs less like a classroom and more like a small, increasingly complicated country, where the rules keep moving, the lines keep multiplying, and the only person keeping an honest tally just turned six. Room One. Population: Five. Nobody's in charge. Everybody thinks they are.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For decades, the listening station at Kelvaris Deep Array has caught nothing but static and the patient hum of routine.>It is old. Fragmented. Human. As Sael and her team piece together scraps of a broadcast that crossed decades and light-years to reach them, discovery becomes crisis. A governing council divided by fear and duty must decide whether it's safe, or even possible, to answer a species they barely understand, whose transmission ended mid-thought, in silence, for reasons no one on Kelvaris will ever know. They may never learn what happened on the other end. They may never know if anyone is still there to hear a reply.>THE LONG LISTENING turns first contact inside out: a hard-science, quietly human story, about a species that isn't us, asking what it costs to speak into the dark, and whether hope requires an answer to be worth sending. 'Some silences take decades to answer.'. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - I was ten years old the first time I watched this country turn an anniversary in doubt of itself. I am sixty now, and it is happening again.On the Republic's 250th birthday, a veteran of twenty-six years, a career built on watching quietly and reporting honestly, turns that same discipline on the nation he served. To Whom It May Still Concern is a collection of direct-address essays written not to Democrats or Republicans, but to the Republic itself: a testimony from someone who has served under presidents of both parties, under the same Constitution, and now watches an office he once saluted reduced to a brand.These are not partisan essays. They are a warning, and a love letter, from a man who has earned the right to grieve for what he still believes in. Each essay opens on a fragment of a life spent in service and widens into a reckoning: What happened to statesmen When did net worth become mistaken for leadership Can a nation still lead the world if it no longer leads itself Bookended by two Fourths of July, one celebrated at ten, one mourned at sixty, this is a citizen's testimony for anyone who still believes the Republic is worth 250 more years, if it can remember what it was for.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A STRAIT WAS CLAIMED IN ONE SENTENCE. THE LAW HAS NEVER MOVED THAT FAST. On August 14, 2026, speaking to a crowd on Long Island, the president said that once the war with Iran was over, he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. Iran's government rejected the claim within a day. Neither side has anything resembling a treaty, a statute, or a vote behind it.In The Word and the Waterway, Gerard Tod follows a mechanism two centuries older than that sentence: the American habit of declaring a territory first and finding, or failing to find, the law to back it up later. The trail runs through an 1856 statute that let any citizen claim an unclaimed island by standing on it; a doctrine, delivered to Congress in 1823, that closed an entire hemisphere to Europe with no navy able to enforce it; a disputed river that started a war in 1846; a queen deposed in 1893 whose kingdom was annexed five years later by a legislative shortcut, after the correct process failed by fourteen votes; a Panamanian revolution that arrived, conveniently, on schedule in 1903; a canal seized by three armies in 1956 and given back within a month; and a purchase of Alaska, in 1867, that needed no declaration at all because the treaty came first.This is not a book about whether the war with Iran is justified, or who should win it. It is a book about what a declaration is actually doing, historically, in the space between the sentence that makes it and the law that would be required to make it real. Some declarations, this book finds, eventually got their law. Others never did.>The waterway is still there. So, for now, is the word standing next to it.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On July 16, 1984, Governor Mario Cuomo stood before the Democratic National Convention and told nearly eighty million viewers that this country was less a shining city on a hill than a tale of two cities, one where the ladders reach the top and one where they were pulled up before anyone climbing them today had a chance to use them. Government, he said, owes its citizens a floor, the way a family does not stop feeding a child who cannot yet earn a wage. Fifty-nine days later, he stood before the theology department at Notre Dame and said the opposite: that his own church's teaching, which he personally accepted, gave him no right to write it into law for citizens who did not share his faith. The same man. The same year. Two podiums, arguing what looks, on the surface, like two different disciplines.>In The Conscience and the Floor, Gerard Tod traces that line, what a citizen is asked to believe against what a citizen is owed to survive, from Kennedy's 1960 promise to keep his church out of the presidency, through Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 radio address proposing a second Bill of Rights, delivered from a chair because he was too ill that night to stand before the Congress he was addressing, to the Supreme Court's 2014 ruling that let a private employer's religious conviction reach into an obligation owed to someone else. This is not a book asking readers to take a side on any single issue. It is asking readers to notice which side of the line their own convictions actually belong on. Some beliefs are yours to keep. Some floors belong to everyone.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In 1817, a superintendent freshly returned from studying artillery schools in France rebuilt a decaying military academy on a simple premise: an officer who could only execute a memorized procedure was a liability the moment the battlefield stopped matching the manual. In 2026, an unreleased Pentagon memorandum proposes to eliminate civilian tenure at that same academy, and to review every course taught there, line by line, for material judged non-essential or ideologically driven. In The Line and the Lantern, Gerard Tod turns to Sylvanus Thayer's West Point, the University of California's 1950 loyalty-oath firings, the televised collapse of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Army investigation, and Stalin's 1937 purge of the Red Army's own high command. The parallels are not offered as simple repetitions. They trace a recurring choice: build an officer's capacity to reason, or replace that capacity with a test of loyalty, and live with what the second choice costs when judgment is finally needed. This is not a book asking readers to master military doctrine or constitutional law. It asks a simpler question: what does an institution owe the people it sends into situations no manual anticipated, years before it ever hands them an order An oath sworn by someone never taught to think past a checklist is a promise made in a language they were never given the words for.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For decades, the listening station at Kelvaris Deep Array has caught nothing but static and the patient hum of routine.Then signal analyst Sael Ithran finds something that shouldn't be there, a pattern buried in noise, unmistakably artificial. Unmistakably not her own kind. It is old. Fragmented. Human. As Sael and her team piece together scraps of a broadcast that crossed decades and light-years to reach them, discovery becomes crisis. A governing council divided by fear and duty must decide whether it's safe, or even possible, to answer a species they barely understand, whose transmission ended mid-thought, in silence, for reasons no one on Kelvaris will ever know. They may never learn what happened on the other end. They may never know if anyone is still there to hear a reply.But some kinds of listening are worth answering anyway. THE LONG LISTENING turns first contact inside out: a hard-science, quietly human story, about a species that isn't us, asking what it costs to speak into the dark, and whether hope requires an answer to be worth sending. "Some silences take decades to answer." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A Secretary of Defense leads a prayer in the Pentagon press room, asking that every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness. A crowd in a cold field nine hundred years ago answers a pope with a single cry: Deus vult, God wills it. The same two words are now tattooed on that Secretary's arm, and he has called the moment that produced them a formative moment in the history of the free world. In The Crown and the Cry, Gerard Tod turns to the First Crusade, Urban II's promise that killing could earn the remission of sin, the massacre that followed the fall of Jerusalem, and the conqueror who refused its crown one week later, to examine a recurring American habit: reaching for God not to comfort the frightened, but to authorize the force. This is not a book asking readers to take a side on faith itself. It asks five simpler questions: Who is speaking, and in what capacity Is God invoked to comfort, or to authorize Would the words sound righteous if the enemy used them first Does the invocation arrive before the act, or after it, as a claim of credit And what restraint does the speaker still owe the people on the other side of the prayer Godfrey of Bouillon said no to a crown once, in the same city, the same week, his own army left the streets running with blood. This volume asks what a republic loses when no one left in office still knows how to say no. He refused the crown. He never once refused the sword beneath it.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that a New York gun law could stand only if the state could show it matched the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. Four days later, on June 27, 2022, the same Court ruled that a public-school prayer had to be judged the same way, not by a decades-old legal test, but by whether the founding generation would have recognized it as an establishment of religion. Two amendments. One method. Four days apart. Neither ruling mentions the other. In The Text and the Times, Gerard Tod follows that method past the cases that made headlines: to the Militia Act of 1792, which armed a citizen militia the founders never called a private arsenal; to the 1873 massacre that tested whether the amendment protected freedmen at all; to a cell phone tracked for months without a warrant, where the same historical method reached the opposite conclusion; to a company town from 1946 now standing in for a handful of social media platforms; and to a coin minted in 1864 that a modern court now calls tradition. This is not a book that argues whether history should decide these questions. It is a book that asks whether the history being cited is the history that actually happened, and whose history it was to begin with. The newest volume in the series turns from prayer and power to the method now deciding nearly everything else. Four days is not very long to decide what two centuries meant.…