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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...

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...

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...

Dieses politische Sachbuch beleuchtet den riskanten Kampf um Machtkontrolle und radikale Selbstregierung. Begleite auf deinem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit eine aufrüttelnde, nachdenkliche Reise, die zeigt, wie eine offene Gesellschaft ihre eigenen Grenzen aushandelt. Spüre die Brisanz, wenn...

Revivez l'effondrement de la République romaine, une épopée historique fascinante déchirée entre liberté et tyrannie. De la modeste cité du Latium à la domination absolue de la Méditerranée, cette plongée immersive retrace la naissance et la chute tragique d'un système politique sans...

Brought to you by Penguin. Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight back Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce...

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.

“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal From The New York Times–bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry...

Munoz provides new insight into Benazir Bhutto’s unprecedented rise and an unflinching, minute-by-minute narrative of the assassination itself. With impeccable research, Munoz also situates Bhutto in the decades-long history of U.S.-Pakistan relations and the emergence of global terrorism, pinpointing her death as the moment when those relations changed forever. The result is a gripping narrative of Pakistan’s turbulent political realities and the death of its leading politician.

A CIA station chief, later Jordan's lawyer in Washington, reveals the secret history of a lost peace.

Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young King Hussein, who would become America's most reliable Middle East ally. Over time, their bond of trust and friendship deepened. His narrative contains secrets that will revise our understanding of the Middle East.

The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there’s a...

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights." 

Perhaps one of the most influential and controversial books in history, Machiavelli’s The Prince raises issues that are still debated centuries after its publication. The theories he developed in The Prince were derived from his observation of the successes and failures of the ruling class. The Prince was designed as a practical guide for newly appointed rulers and is required reading for all persons in a position of authority who strive for grandeur in business and politics.

In Putinomics, Chris Miller examines the making of Russian economic policy since Vladimir Putin took power in 1999. Miller argues that Putin's economic strategy has functioned far more effectively than most Westerners realize. While acknowledging that part of Putin's successes - above all, quadrupling per capita GDP in just a decade and a half - can be attributed to cashing in on high oil prices, Miller details the government policies that have also been fundamental to Russia's growth.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national...

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection—and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent...

Brought to you by Penguin. The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some perspectives, much longer). This book shows that the...

Vom Menschenrätsel: Ein Schlüsselwerk Rudolf Steiners über Wesen, Entwicklung und Erkenntnis des Menschen aus dem Jahr 1916. Was macht den Menschen aus? Wie lassen sich Körper, Seele und Geist verstehen? Und welche Rolle spielt das menschliche Bewusstsein in einer Welt, die zunehmend von...