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Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan...

In a tech world bursting with hype, this new podcast cuts through the noise. The series features candid conversations with software C-Suite leaders—from seed-stage to public companies—who are navigating the seismic shift AI is bringing to product, marketing, and operations. Forget the fluff. These are real discussions about restructuring teams, evolving codebases, and embedding AI in company culture—without silver-bullet thinking. If you're leading a software company into the next chapter, this series is for you. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac ...

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Unabridged...

The Rick Rizzs Show airs Friday's at 8:30am during Seattle's Morning News on KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM.

Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.

When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.

The Create the Future Podcast is hosted by Rick Williams, keynote speaker and author of Create the Future – your essential leadership guidebook for making difficult decisions. The Podcast celebrates leaders who have made tough decisions and created the future for the organizations they led. Guests include executives, board members, and nonprofit and public-sector leaders. Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply at https://podcast.rickwilliamsleadership.com/podcast-guest.

This provocative book makes a compelling case for reducing the number of workdays in a week to four. International business expert Robert Grosse draws on scholarly research to construct an appealing argument for why the four-day workweek benefits both the organization and the employee. Research has demonstrated that longer work hours harm the individual and don't amount to a more effective organization. The book goes beyond merely arguing that a reduced workweek is a good idea. It delves into why, explores the means for achieving it, and scrutinizes the barriers to getting there.

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens. Winner of the 2025 Walkley Book Award Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary...

L'auteur et journaliste golfique, Rick Reilly, connaît Donald Trump depuis plus de trente ans. Il a partagé des parties avec lui et réalisé pour ce livre plus d'une centaine d'interviews avec des joueurs professionnels ou amateurs, des employés ou des caddies. Grâce à une foule d'anecdotes, vous apprendrez ses techniques de triche acquises dès l'université, comment intimider vos voisins, les conseils municipaux, vos prestataires… ou faire du business et multiplier en un instant la valorisation de vos parcours de golf.

Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller. Rick Mercer can always be relied on to provoke a strong reaction--but what he said one fall day in 2017 truly shocked the nation. In a rant posted on social...

In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.

Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

Rick Thirsty tackles the left wing and makes them feel bad about themselves.

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After the staggering slaughter of back-to-back world wars, the West embraced the ideal of the "open society". The promise: By liberating ourselves from the old attachments to nation, clan, and religion that had fueled centuries of violence, we could build a prosperous world without borders, freed from dogmas and managed by experts. But the populism and nationalism that are upending politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three generations, the postwar consensus is breaking down.

“A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review) Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and...

Rick Manning has been a lifelong freedom advocate with a successful career at the NRA protecting the Second Amendment. He influenced several major legislative victories that empowered individuals to protect themselves and their communities. Manning later served as a senior official in the Department of Labor overseeing press relations. Today, he is the President of Americans for Limited Government- a DC area non-profit leading the charge to uphold the United States Constitution. Join Rick Manning for the latest liberty news, politics, and commentary. Subscribe and download today!