Welcome to ASP Reading Corner!

        The American Studies Program has recently gathered reference meterials including new books on the current U.S. politics, foreign policy and society. Our Reading Corner is now open for students and interested readers. Please view the available materials below and contact us at asp.isisthailand@gmail.com or 02 218 7430 to find out how you can borrow them.

         We are planning to purchase more interesting materials on the U.S. Stay tuned!

 

     
 

  ASP - English Books
     

 

     
 
  Global Powers in the 21st Century Strategies and Relations

Alexander T.J. Lennon and Amanda Kozlowski


Although the United States is considered the world’s only superpower, other major powers seek to strengthen the roles they play on the global stage. Because of the Iraq War and its repercussions, many countries have placed an increased emphasis on multilateralism. This new desire for a multipolar world, however, may obscure the obvious question of what objectives other powerful countries seek. Few scholars and policymakers have addressed the role of the other major powers in a post-9/11 world. Global Powers in the 21st Century fills this gap, offering in-depth analyses of China, Japan, Russia, India, and the European Union in this new global context.
Prominent analysts examine the policies and positions of the global player from both international and domestic perspectives. The book discuss each power’s domestic politics, sources of power, post 9/11 changes, relationship with United States, adjustments to globalization, and vision of its place in the world. Global Powers in the 21st Century offers reader look at the handful of actors that will shape the world in the years ahead.

 
 
     
 
  An East Asian Community and the United States

Ralph A. Cossa and Akihiko Tanaka


Seven prominent scholars clarify the roots, background, and the theoretical framework of the emerging East Asian community and provide a policy perspective on how the United States should participate in the framework. The complex issues involved include balancing national interests with global concerns, problems of political reconciliation, and relationships with the region’s other multilateral organizations and initiatives.
 
 
     
 
  War of Necessity, War of Choice A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

Richard N. Haass

When should the United States go to war? Is it arguably the most important foreign policy question facing any president, and Richard Haass–a member of the National Securityy Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State department for Bush II–is in a unique position to address it. Haass is one of just a handful of individuals–along with Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bob Gates–involved at a senior level of U.S. government decision making during both Iraq conflicts. He is the first to take us behind closed doors and the first to provide a personal account. The result is a book that is authoritative, revealing, and surprising. Haass explains not only happened but why.

War of Necessity, War of Choice–part history, part memoir–provides invaluable insight into some of the most important recent events in the world. It also provides a much-needed compass for how the United States can apply the lessons learned from the two Iraq wars so that it is better positioned to put into practice what worked and to avoid repeating what so clearly did not.
 
 
     
 
  Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right

Anders Stephanson

In this sophisticated analysis, Anders Stephanson explores the origins of the Manifest Destiny–the American idea of providential and historical chosenness–and how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years. Stephanson traces the roots of Manifest Destiny from the British settlement of North America and the rise of Puritanism through Woodrow Wilson’s effort to “make the world safe for democracy” and Ronald’s struggle against the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union. The result is remarkable and necessary book about how faith in divinely ordained expansionism has marked the course of American history.
 
 
 
     
 
  After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age

Paul Starobin

According to Starobin, the After America world is being driven less by virulent anti-Americanism that by America’s middling status as a social, economic, and political innovator; by long-wave trends like resurgent nationalism in China India, and Russia; and by the growth of transnational cultural, political, and economic institutions. While what is going to come next has not been resolved, we can discern certain narratives that are already advancing. In this sense, the After America age is already a work in progress–pregnant with multiple possibilities.

Thought provoking and well argues, After America offers a way to think about a dramatically changing world in which the United States is no longer number one. Starobin’s tone is sober but in the end hopeful–the age After America need not be a disaster for America, and might even be liberating.
 
 
 
     
 
 

.Renegade: The Making of a President


Richard Wolffe



This book is previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the world’s most powerful leader. But it is also uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade



Renegade provides not only an account of Obama’s triumphs, but also examines his many personal and political trials. We see Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. We see him struggling with life as a presidential candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its first year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire primary. And we see him relaying on his personal experience as well as meticulous polling, to pass the presidential test in foreign and economic affairs

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Masters and Commanders LP: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

 Andrew Roberts

 An epic joint biography, Master and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. Each was exceptionally tough willed a strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others if he was to have his strategy adopted. Andrew Roberts, whom The Economist calls “Britain’ finest contemporary military historian,” traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives acting upon these key leaders struggling to destroy Nazism.

 

Masters and Commanders dramatically re-creates the atmosphere, debates, and maneuverings through which Allied grand strategy was forged and reveals the profound impact of personality upon history.

 

 
 
     
 
 

Catastrophe

 Dick Moris&Eileen Mcgann

 NOW. IT”S THAT SIMPLE. IT”S THAT URGENT

So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann’s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled that war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or out security.

 

At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us our of recession, we got a doctrine socialist who wants to use the critics to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States. Cars, banks–what’s next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries.

It’s a catastrophe.

 
 
     
 
 

A Failure of Capitalism

 The Honorable Richard A. Posner

 The Financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime. How could it have happened, after all we’ve learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn’t it anticipated? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? Why have the responses to fate of the government and the economics profession been so indecisive? Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this financial disaster and the stumbling efforts to cope with it.

 

 
 
     
 
 

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

 Barbara Ehrenreich

 Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickle and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for “one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living wage. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America–the story of Barbara Ehrenreich’s attemps to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house, cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate–has become an essential part of the nation’s political discourse.

            Now, in a new afterward, Ehrenreich shows that the plight of the underpaid has in no way eased: with fewer jobs available, deteriorating work conditions, and no pay increase in sight, Nickle and Dimed us more relevant than ever.

 

 
 
     
 
 

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

 William J. Perry 

The Council on Foreign Relations sponsors Independent Task Forces to assess issues of current and critical importance to U.S. foreign policy and provide policymakers with concrete judgments and recommendations. Diverse in backgrounds and perspectives, Task Force members aim to reach a meaningful consensus on policy through private and nonpartisan deliberations. Once launched, Task Forces are independent of CFR and solely responsible for the content of their reports. Task Force members are asked to join a consensus signifying that they endorse “the general policy thrust and judgments reached by the group, though not necessarily every finding and recommendation.” Each Task Force member also has the option of putting forward an additional or dissenting view. Members’ affiliations are listed for identification purposes only and do not imply institutional endorsement. Task Force observers participate in discussions, but are not asked to join the consensus.

 
 
     
 
 

Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

 Ahmed Rashid

 After September 11th, Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced us to that now notorious regime. In his new work, "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" (Christopher Hitchens) examines Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia as well as the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nucleararmed Pakistan, a renewed Al Qaeda, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. As he predicted, Pakistan and Afghanistan are now where the real war is. His blistering critique of American policy is a dire warning and an impassioned call to correct our failed strategies. There is no more urgent global task.

 
 
     
 
 

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

 Kevin Phillips

 In his most provocative and timely book yet, Kevin Phillips describes the consequence of our catastrophic economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our diminishing oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. As always, Phillips goes after far beyond the daily news coverage of these topics, both to add historical context and to show the foolish web of dubious strategies in which they are entangled. Washington’s promotion of public and private debt, its incompetence in energy matters, its blunders in Iraq, and the overall loss of international respect for American political leadership and global strategies are all fuel for Phillips’s fire. He’s devastating in his conclusion that, in all ways, “bad” money and finance have failed the American people and pointed flawed U.S. capitalism toward a global crisis.

 
 
     
 
 

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work

 Jimmy Carter

 In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the president moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East–and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.

 

 
 
     
 
 

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

 Andrew Bacevich

 An immediate New York Times Bestseller, The Limits of Power offers a searing examination of economic, political, and military crises facing America. Writing with knowledge born of experience, conservative historian and former military officer Andrew J. Bacevich calls for a revival of the badly neglected American realist tradition. Exposing the multiple illusions that have distorted the U.S. policy since 1945, he challenges Americans to respect power and its limits, shed their claims of exceptionalism, critically examine their way of life, and learn to live within their means. Only by embracing such principles, Bacevich eloquently argues, will Americans find the common ground to address the nation’s urgent problems before the damage becomes irreparable.

 

 
 
     
 
 

Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East

 Dennis Ross, David Makovsky

 The last decade has witnessed the slow growth of an Iranian nuclear program despite U.S. efforts to curtail it, the tragic failure of the Oslo Accord, the second intifada, and devastating wars fought between Israel and Hamas and Hizbollah. Meanwhile, the Iraq war has cost thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, while peace remains elusive. It all begs the pressing question: Why has the United States consistently failed to achieve its strategic goals in the Middle East?

 

 
 
     
 
 

Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity & Exclusion over Four Centuries

 Cal Jillson, Calvin C. Jillson

 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long respected the promise of America, and, even before they were penned, this country was seen as the land of opportunity. Touted by poets, pundits, and politicians, the American Dream is the spark that animates American life, the promise held out to youngsters and immigrants that hard work will result in security and prosperity.

 The reality of that Dream, however, has long depended on the circumstances of the dreamer, since over the years many have been effectively barred from pursuing it. In this book Cal Jillson examines America’s complex and evolving social landscape to show the contexts that have shaped the Dream and the pattners of exclusion that have left some dreaming in vain.

 
 
     
 
 

The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

 Gwen Ifill

 In the Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.

 

The Breakthrough is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy in the age of Obama.

 

 
 
     
 
 

The Inheritance

 

David E. Sanger


In a riveting narrative, The Inheritance describes the huge costs of distraction and lost opportunities at home and abroad as Iraq soaked up manpower, money, and intelligence capabilities. The 2008 market collapse further undermined American leadership, leaving the new president with a set of challenges unparalleled since Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the Oval Office

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.Thai-U.S. Forgong a New Partnership in the 21st Century

 

Pranee Thiparat,

Nongnuth Phetcharatana


 

 

 
 
     
 
 

.America's Role In Asia --Asian and American Views

The Asia Foundation

"The Continuing impact of 9/11 and the subsequent anti-terrorism campaign have perceptively influenced U.S. security strategy and bilateral relationaship with key Asian countries. While the United States has been "the" regional power since the then of World War II, there's some uncertainty about the releavance of the power at a time when Asian nations are attempting to foster greater regional cooperation and forge a stronger regional identity. Given the political, economic and Security interest if the United States in the regional, it is essential that both Americans and Asians contribute to solving problems and addressing challenges of mutual concern-- from stability on the Korean penisula, conflict in Afghanistan, and  the global war on terror to energy security, environment degradation, and trade."

 
 
     
 
 

The Audacity of Hope


Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream


Barack Obama


The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understanding that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America’s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.

 
 
     
 
  Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise

Barack Obama

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and a failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader—one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation forward. Change We Can Believe In outlines his vision for America

In these pages you will find bold and specific ideas about how to fix our ailing economy and strengthen the middle class, make health care affordable for all, achieve energy independence, and keep America safe in dangerous world. Change We Can Believe In asks you not just to believe in Barack Obama’s ability to bring change to Washington, it asks you to believe in yours.

 
 
     
 
  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance


Barack Obama


In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African sides of his family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

 
 
     
 
  Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower

Zbigniew Brzezinsk

Second Chance is a dispassionate, unsparing assessment of how these three presidents performed as history’s first true global leaders, and how that performance was influenced by their personal leadership styles. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, American’s most distinguished commentator on international affairs, concludes that in these years the United States squandered a great deal of its power and prestige. None of the three presidents escapes criticism, though the blame is by no means shared equally. Brezezinski concludes by recommending how America can regain its global structure in an era of global political awakening.

With a new Afterword adding further insight, Second Chance provides not only a critical appraisal but also permanently useful guide America’s long-term role in the world.

 
 
     
 
 

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

William Easterly

From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the developing world.

 Five years ago in his widely praised first book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly rocked the development world’s conventional wisdom on economic growth to its foundations, and had to hastily exit his former employer, the World Bank. In much anticipated sequel, The White Man’s Burden, Easterly (now a professor at New York University) turns his attention to foreign aid and related Western efforts to help the world’s most desperate people. The result is a brilliant and blistering indictment of the failure of Western aid to reach the poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West  need to face our own history of ineptitude and hold our own and agencies accountable for the results of their actions, especially at a time when the plight of the world’s poor is one of the most pressing issues we face.

 
 
     
 
 

In The Post-American World

Fareed Zakaria

 

“Fareed Zakaria has been consistently brilliant in his analysis of world affairs but also something far more rare: he has turned out to have been right. Now he’s produced another masterpiece of insight. With great reporting and cultural understanding, Zakaria explains a future shaped by many emerging power centers. This book isn’t about America’s decline, it’s about how it can deploy its unique strengths to prosper as the rest of the world does so as well. It’s a definitive handbook for political and business leaders who want to succeed in a global ear.

 
 
     
 
 

The Declaration of Independence: How 13 Colonies Became the United States

Syl Sobel J.D.

How much do you really know about the Declaration of Independence? Of course, you know it’s the document that formally served 13 American colonies’ ties with England…that it’s dated July 4, 1776…

Open this book for the answers to these and many more questions. You’ll discover a wealth of fascinating facts about the men who assembled in Philadelphia in 1776 to give birth to a new nation.

 
 
     
 
 

Presidential Elections: And Other Cool Facts

Syl Sobel J.D.

The Bush-Gore election of 2000 was one that historians and teachers will study and talk about for years to come. But that wasn’t the only unusual election in the United States history. Young readers can open this book and find all kinds of interesting facts about elections.

 

 
 
     
     
   
 

  ASP - Thai Books
   
     
 
 

จักรวรรดิอเมริกา ประวัติศาสตร์แบบทวนกระแส อัตลักษณ์ ชีวอำนาจ

สรวิศ ชัยนาม

 ถ้ายอมรับว่าสหรัฐอเมริกาเป็นจักรวรรดิ ที่ทรงพลังอำนาจที่สุดเท่าที่เคยมีมาในประวัติศาสตร์ของโลก... การวิเคราะห์บทบาทของจักรวรรดิอเมริกัน การวิพากษ์การดำเนินความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศของสหรัฐอเมริกาที่เป็นมาในประวัติศาสตร์ และการศึกษาวัฒนธรรมการใช้อำนาจแบบจักรวรรดินิยมของเจ้ามหาอำนาจประเทศนี้ ตลอดจนการคิดหาแนวทางใหม่ๆ หลากหลายรูปแบบในการตีแผ่อำนาจของมันออกมาให้เห็นประจักษ์เป็นเรื่องจำเป็นอย่างยิ่ง ไม่เพียงแต่เฉพาะนักศึกษาและนักวิชาการที่ต้องการทำความเข้าใจสถานการณ์ปัจจุบันของโลกใบนี้ แต่ยังเป็นเรื่องที่ขาดไม่ได้สำหรับใครก็ตามที่มุ่งมั่นผลักดันการเมืองเพื่อเสรีภาพและการรื้อจัดโครงสร้างอำนาจของโลกเสียใหม่

 
 
     
 
 

บารัค โอบามา ประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐคนที่ 44?

ทีมข่าวต่างประเทศมติชน

"ทำไม อเมริกัน-แอฟริกัน  คนหนึ่งถึงสามารถเขย่าสถาบันการเมืองอนุรักษ์สุดโต่งที่รีพับลิกันครอบงำอยู่ได้ลงลึกถึงรากทำไมนักการเมืองหนุ่มโนเนมผู้หนึ่ง ถึงสามารถบันดาลให้หลายคนเชื่อว่านี่คือตัวแทนแห่งความหวัง คือแบบอย่างในความฝันที่อเมริกันทั้งประเทศเฝ้ารอคอยหนังสือบารัค โอบามา ประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐคนที่ 44? คือการบันทึกเรื่องราวไว้ให้ค้นหาคำตอบของคำถามเหล่านี้"


 

 

 
 
     
 
 

บารัค โอบามา ผมลิขิตชีวิตเอง Dream from My Father

บารัค โอบามา

นพดล เวชสวัสดิ์ แปล

"จากลูกครึ่งอเมริกัน-เคนยา ที่เติบโตมาในรัฐฮาวาย ก้าวสู่ตำแหน่งว่าที่ประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐอเมริกา อะไรทำให้ชายที่ชื่อบารัค โอบามา ก้าวมายืนถึงจุดนี้ได้ คำตอบทั้งหลายทั้งมวลอยู่ในหนังสือ บารัค โอบามา ผมลิขิตชีวิตเอง Dream from My Father    อัตชีวประวัติที่เขาถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวชีวิตออกมาได้อย่างน่าจับใจ ด้วยภาษาสละสลวยและท่วงทำนองที่งดงาม บอกเล่าเรื่องราวจากจุดเริ่มต้นในฮาวายดินแดนที่เขาเติบโตมา พร้อมกับความรู้สึกต่อสู้ดิ้นรนในสังคมที่มีการเหยียดสีผิว จนกระทั่งเดินทางงออกจากทวีปอเมริกา ข้ามไปยังเอเชียต่อไปยังแอฟริกา เพื่อแสวงหารากเหง้าและเรียนรู้เรื่องราวของบรรพบุรุษ ที่จะช่วยให้สมานบาดแผลในชีวิต และกลายเป็นคนทีมีความภาคภูมิในศักดิ์ศรีและเผ่าพันธุ์ของตน"

 
 
     
 
 

กล้าหวัง กล้าเปลี่ยน The Audacity of Hope

บารัค โอบามา,

สุนิสา กาญจนกุล แปล

"The Audacity of Hope คือเสียงจาก บารัค โอบามา ที่เรียกร้องการเมืองรูปแบบใหม่ การเมืองที่มีรากฐานจากความเข้าใจร่วมกันซึ่งดึงเรามาอยู่ด้วยกันในฐานะชาวอเมริกัน ด้วยวิสัยทัศน์ที่ชัดเจนเรื่องตำแหน่งแห่งที่ของอเมริกาในโลกใบนี้และด้วยการเล่าถึงชีวิตครอบครัวและช่วงเวลาในวุฒิสภาอย่างตรงไปตรงมาและแปลกใหม่ โอบามา แจกแจงให้เห็นความเชื่อทางการเมืองของตนและแรงจูงใจให้เราศรัทธาการดึงดันมองโลกในแง่ดีซึ่งเป็นคำจำกัดความของเรามานานแสนนานและเป็นความหวังที่ดีที่สุดของการเดินหน้าต่อไป"


 

 

 
 
     
 
 

โอบามา : สัจจะสัญญา สู่อำนาจ

เดวิด เมนเดลล์

รศ.ดร.ปณิธาน วัฒนายากร, ภัทรพงศ์ พงศ์สวัสดิ์ แปล

"โอบามา : สัจจะสัญญา สู่อำนาจ เป็นหนังสือที่จำเป็นต้องอ่าน โดยเฉพาะผู้สนใจการเมืองอเมริกัน และอยากรู้จักบารัค โอบามาอย่างลึกซึ้ง"


 

 

 
 
     
 
 

นำธุรกิจสู่ชัยชนะสไตล์ บารัค โอบามา

Barry Libert and Rick Faulk

ณงลักษณ์ จารุวัฒน์ แปล

"หนังสือ Barack,Inc. นำธุรกิจสู่ชัยชนะสไตล์ บารัค โอบามา เล่มนี้ ผู้แต่งได้สัมภาษณ์ทีมงานบริหารและอำนวยการหาเสียงที่ทำงานให้กับบารัค โอบามา รวบรวมข้อมูลแล้วข้อคิด ตลอดจนกลยุทธ์ หมากกลและการเดินเกมที่บารัค โอบามาใช้ในการหาเสียงจนได้ชัยชนะ หยิบยกมาตีแผ่และแสดงให้เห็นว่ากลยุทธ์เหล่านี้สามารถนำไปสู่ธงชัยในสนามการบริหารธุรกิจได้เช่นกัน"


 

 

 
 
     
 
 

โอบามาวาจา

กมลชนก ปั้นจาด แปล

"ครั้งแรกของประเทศไทยที่เลือกเฟ้นและรวบรวม 12 สุนทรพจน์ที่โลกต้องจดจำ วาทะคารมอันคมคาย ชาญฉลาด และแฝงไปด้วยปรัชญาของประธานธิบดีสหรัฐ บารัค โอบามา พร้อมคำแปลภาษาไทยและแผ่นซีดีเสียงมาไว้ในเล่มเดียว"

 

 
 
     
 
 

เปลี่ยน สะท้านโลก Change We Can Believe In

บารัค โอบามา

อรยา สูตะบุตร สุภาภรณ์ กาญจน์วีระโยธิน แปล

"การที่บารัค โอบามา ได้รับเลือกเป็นประธานธิบดีสหรัฐเป็นจุดเปลี่ยนแปลงที่สำคัญของประวัติศาสตร์การเมืองอเมริกัน หลังจากระยะเวลาหลายปีของการดำเนินนโยบายและการเมืองที่ล้มเหลวของรัฐบาล ความฝันของคนอเมริกันจะมีโอกาสเป็นจริงได้อีกครั้ง บารัค โอบามาได้พิสูจน์ให้เห็นว่า เขาเป็นผู้นำแบบใหม่ที่สามารถทำให้ผู้คนหันหน้าเข้าหากัน บอกความจริงเกี่ยวกับสถานการณ์ท้าทายต่างๆที่กำลังเผชิญอยู่ และพาให้ประเทศเดินไปข้างหน้า หนังสือเปลี่ยน สะท้านโลก Change We Can Believe In นำเสนอวิสัยทัศน์ของโอบามาสำหรับอเมริกาและสถานะของอเมริกาในโลก"


 

 
 
     
 
 

ประวัติศาสตร์ทวีปอเมริกา :

ธนู แก้วโอภาส

"เริ่มตั้งแต่ศตวรรษที่ 15 จนกระทั้งถึงประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐอเมริกาคนล่าสุด คลอบคลุมทุกประเทศ ให้รายละเอียดทุกด้าน ทั้งประวัติความเป็นมา ลักษณะทางกายภาพประชากรและการศึกษา การปกครอง องค์กรทางสังคม ระบบเศรษฐกิจ ระบบความเชื่อและจริยธรรม วัฒนธรรม พร้อมแผนที่ และภาพประกอบจำนวนมาก"