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Der erfahrene Solarunternehmer Gerd Schöller bringt die hitzige Debatte zurück auf den Boden der Tatsachen: Was ist machbar, was ist Mythos – und wo wird schlichtweg gelogen? Mit einem scharfen Blick für Realität und Machbarkeit zeigt Schöller, wie die Energiewende gelingen kann – mit Hightech, Digitalisierung und Unternehmertum. Dieses Buch räumt auf mit Ideologien und liefert Antworten für alle, die nicht nur debattieren, sondern endlich Lösungen sehen wollen.

Christian Doumergue a mené une enquête minutieuse pour mettre à nue les plus grands complots de l'Histoire et démonter la fameuse « Théorie du Complot ». Sociétés secrètes, groupes d'influences plus ou moins occultes, les acteurs repérés depuis des siècles agissent pour imposer le trouble ou une vérité dévoyée…. Depuis les Illuminati en passant par le 11 septembre, le mythe Groupe Bilderberg ou le Nouvel Ordre Mondial, l'enquête historique de Christian Doumergue permet de mettre à jour des méthodes, des façons de faire et des mécaniques… diaboliques !

In Democracy In Danger, Braun, a veteran of 3 presidential campaigns and former White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, reveals what the national security apparatus, local election administrators, and political parties have gotten wrong about election security and what America needs to do to protect the ballot box in 2020 and beyond.

Borja Méndez, periodista experto en sucesos y reconocido por su rigor por la Policía Nacional, usa este y otros episodios candentes de los antidisturbios para vertebrar un libro, mezcla de investigación e historia oral, sobre la vida privada y pública de quienes son la primera barrera contra la violencia. Esta es la historia de sus éxitos, sus fracasos y también sus confidencias. Una radiografía de la presión política, mediática y social que sufren a diario unos agentes tan necesarios como difamados.

After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, accessible volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of the US government spying on its own citizens.

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis. A series of intelligence failures in 1949 and 1950, including the failure to warn about the North Korean invasion of South Korea, made it clear that gut instinct and traditional practices were no longer sufficient for intelligence analysis in the nuclear age. The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, had a mandate to reform it.

When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, analysts and policymakers highlighted the unifying shock that NATO members experienced. However even before the return of US president Donald Trump, beneath this seeming cohesion lay deep-seated differences in how member states perceive and prioritize security threats.

The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompasses the broader context of foreign and domestic policy as well as the military's ties to the country's leadership. The military's strategic thought is closely linked to Russia's existence as a state and explains patterns of Russian confrontation.

Manuel Ostermann, einer der bekanntesten Polizisten Deutschlands, schlägt Alarm. Extremismus in jedweder Form, ob von links, von rechts oder religiös motiviert, muss endlich gleichermaßen bekämpft werden. Sein Credo: „Ohne Sicherheit keine Freiheit. Ohne Freiheit keine Demokratie." Manuel Ostermanns Buch ist ein leidenschaftliches und zutiefst fundiertes Plädoyer für eine maximale politische und gesellschaftliche Kehrtwende, ehe es zu spät ist.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, free speech and press freedom face unprecedented threats from campus censorship, social media content moderation, and government pressure campaigns. From college students afraid to voice opinions in class to journalists facing investigations, the First Amendment foundations of American democracy are under multiple threats in ways the Founders never imagined.

The Art of Spycraft: Becoming Trusted explores how trust is built and weaponized in the world of espionage, where access determines power and discretion decides who survives mistakes.

En este análisis de los debates alrededor del discurso de odio, la pornografía y la homosexualidad, Butler sostiene que las palabras pueden herir y que la violencia lingüística es un tipo de violencia particular. También sostiene que este discurso es emocional y fluido porque sus efectos a menudo escapan al control del hablante, moldeados por la fantasía, el contexto y las estructuras de poder.

Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi—once known as idealistic and left-leaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and fact-based fourth estate.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.” —Louise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him. In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a...

Um mergulho no período mais sombrio da nossa história recente para revelar as políticas morais que fundamentam a repressão aos grupos LGBT.

“It’s the year 2050… and racism has ended.” Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact—not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation. Williams and Tygielski draw from a wide array of scientific studies, as well as their practical successes in teaching a multitude of diverse groups across perceived “divides,” to show us how to shift our perspective.

A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy. Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves by...

Ego: The Fall of the Twin Towers and the Rise of an Enlightened Humanity by Peter Baumann and Michael W. Taft is the first book to explore the positive evolutionary potential hidden in one of the most destructive events in history. In their examination of the evolutionary implications of 9/11 and its aftermath, the authors contend we are not falling into the grip of a new dark age at all; rather, we are on the verge of a much brighter one as the Darwinian process of natural selection continues to advance humankind.

When aristocrat's daughter Charlotte Bingham was summoned to her father's office aged 18, she never expected to discover that he was a spy. Even more ominous was his decision that she should work for MI5. Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, Lottie wishes for release from the torment of typing. But as fellow secretary Annabella illuminates the mysteries of MI5, and Lottie's home fills with actors doubling as spies, Lottie feels well and truly spooked.