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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic. “An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —New Yorker In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why...

Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.

From the French Revolution of the 18th century to the Mexican, Russian, German, Chinese, anticolonial, and Iranian revolutions of the 20th, Chirot finds that moderate solutions to serious social, economic, and political problems were overwhelmed by radical ideologies that promised simpler, drastic remedies. But not all revolutions had this outcome. The American Revolution didn't, although its failure to resolve the problem of slavery eventually led to the Civil War, and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was relatively peaceful, except in Yugoslavia. 

In this New York Times bestseller, investigative journalist Lee Smith uses his unprecedented access to expose the deep state operation against President Donald J. Trump -- and the American people. The Plot Against the President tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes, while leading the...

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?

Beginning in the years immediately after the First World War and continuing for more than a decade, the German military and the Soviet Union, despite having been bitter enemies, entered into a partnership designed to overturn the order in Europe. Centering on economic and military cooperation, the arrangement led to the establishment of a network of military bases and industrial facilities on Soviet soil, away from the oversight established by Versailles.  

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...

In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans' fight to determine their future. As nations devastated by war began rebuilding, Soviet intentions loomed large. Stalin's armies controlled most of the eastern half of the continent, and in France and Italy, communist parties were serious political forces. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined...

As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism - also known as "antifa." Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and '30s, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amid opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a detailed survey of the full history of anti-fascism from its origins to the present day - the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. «El príncipe», de Nicolás Maquiavelo, es una obra fundamental del pensamiento político que explora con crudeza y realismo cómo se adquiere, se ejerce y se conserva el poder. A través de ejemplos históricos y reflexiones agudas, el autor analiza...

Plongez dans l'histoire du pouvoir absolu pour comprendre comment tyrans et fanatiques ont forgé nos pires tragédies. Loin des mythes, cette exploration rigoureuse dissèque les mécaniques implacables de la violence politique. Idéal pour stimuler votre esprit critique lors de vos trajets...

Dieses Geschichts-Sachbuch analysiert den fatalen Abgrund aus Tyrannei, Verrat und absolutem Machtmissbrauch. Perfekt für die konzentrierte Weiterbildung während des Pendelns, zieht dich diese düstere und atmosphärische Reise tief in die dunkelsten Kapitel der Menschheit. Ergründe, wie aus...

Décryptez la crise de nos démocraties et comprenez comment la fracture politique nourrit la révolte contre les élites. Parfaite pour votre trajet matinal ou vos moments de réflexion, cette analyse stimulante dépasse les simples raccourcis médiatiques. Explorez la rupture profonde entre...

Ce puissant essai de philosophie politique démontre comment le pouvoir populaire remet en cause l'ordre établi. Idéal pour vos trajets quotidiens, ce texte analytique vous offre les clés pour affûter votre esprit critique face aux crises de nos institutions. Les fondements de notre...

Plongez au cœur des rivalités dynastiques d'une histoire européenne sanglante où la couronne s'arrache par le fer. Transformez votre trajet quotidien en une épopée dramatique en explorant ces luttes impitoyables pour le trône britannique. Des champs de bataille aux complots de cour...

Erkenne die Muster der Macht: Diese analytische Sachbuch-Reise zeigt, wie wiederkehrende Revolten Demokratien bedrohen. Wenn du beim morgendlichen Pendeln die tagesaktuellen Nachrichten fundiert einordnen willst oder nach tiefgründigen Antworten auf die Spaltung der Gesellschaft suchst...

Déchiffrez cette histoire politique où l'idéal de liberté affronte la brutale réalité des inégalités américaines. Au-delà du mythe, ce récit sans concession analyse les décisions majeures qui ont façonné une nation entière tout en marginalisant ses minorités. Idéal pour...

Erlebe den packenden historischen Zerfall einer Weltmacht, wenn blinder Ehrgeiz die antike Republik von innen aushöhlt. Auf deiner nächsten langen Fahrt oder beim fokussierten Zuhören entfaltet sich ein tiefgründiges politisches Drama, das eine äußerst brisante Frage stellt: Warum gibt...

圧倒的な成功がなぜ自らを滅ぼすのか――古代共和政ローマの興亡をたどり、権力の肥大化と社会格差が引き起こす国家崩壊のメカニズムを解き明かす重厚な歴史ノンフィクションです。日々の通勤時間や夜の静かなひと...