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From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan. When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.”—The Washington Post House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first...

New York Times bestseller "A cogent analysis of the concurrent Trump/Brexit phenomena and a dire warning about what lies ahead...a lucid, provocative book." --Kirkus Reviews Those who championed globalization once promised a world of winners, one in which free trade would lift all the world's...

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it...

America will remain the world’s only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play? Ian Bremmer argues that Washington’s directionless foreign policy has become prohibitively expensive and...

A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “An excellent modern history...

A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert “Shrewdly sheds light on the world’s most recognizable mysterious leader, his life and what’s really going on...

Una guía visual para entender la vertiginosa transformación de la India y su creciente peso en el tablero geopolítico mundial Desde la fundación de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales hasta la ascensión al poder de Narendra Modi, este libro recorre los grandes hitos que han marcado la...

El genocidio es la forma más extrema de violencia: un acto que busca la destrucción total de un grupo humano por motivos de identidad, origen, religión o cultura. Sin embargo, en un mundo saturado de información, este concepto se ha desvirtuado, utilizándose para describir hechos que no siempre corresponden a su verdadero significado.

Trads versus Trump: En Amerika-kender gør status over truslen fra Det Hvide Hus. I 40 år, fem måneder og ti dage var David Trads forelsket i Amerika. Det begyndte den varme dag i august 1984, da Donna tog imod en 17-årig udvekslingsstuderende fra Danmark i New York City. Og det sluttede den...

アメリカ中心の秩序の解体！ 大国割拠の行く末は？ 後退するアメリカ、仕掛ける中露、混迷する欧州、戦略なき日本―― この世界のありようが私たちの知っていたそれから大きく様変わりしつつある。

When ISIS overran Mosul in June 2014, a young historian expected to spend his life in archives, not hiding from a death sentence. His ambition had been quiet: to write history, teach students, and preserve his city's past. But within days, Mosul was sealed off from the world—its streets patrolled, its memory suffocating under propaganda—and he found himself forced into a role he had never imagined. From a small room no one ever saw, under a name no one knew, he created Mosul Eye.

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault of cultural misunderstanding, historical...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 MINNA CANTH AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, “an exquisite feminist critique of Russia’s oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews)...

Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York in search of the answers, Miguel Delaney follows the threads that surround the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is an exploration of how European football clubs have been bought by some of the world's wealthiest businessmen and state-backed corporations. Drawing on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders, Miguel has produced an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons.

Autor do best-seller Dez lições para o mundo pós-pandemia explora as revoluções ― passadas e atuais ― que definem a era polarizada e instável em que vivemos. Fúria populista, fratura ideológica, impactos econômicos e tecnológicos, guerras e um sistema internacional repleto de riscos catastróficos ― as primeiras décadas do século XXI podem ser consideradas o período mais revolucionário da história moderna. Mas não é o primeiro. Os seres humanos já passaram por alguns realinhamentos ― e prosperaram.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 「ガソリン価格が上がった」「電気代が高い」——そのニュースの裏側には、中東をめぐる地政学的な力学があります。 本書はMultiView...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 「油價又漲了」「電費好貴」——每當聽到這類新聞時，背後其實隱藏著中東的地緣政治力學。 本書是MultiView...

Charles d'Azérat est de ces hommes dont la vie semble taillée pour l'épopée. Officier des forces spéciales, il raconte dans À cœur ouvert, son engagement sans concession pour son pays. Chef de groupe au prestigieux commando parachutiste de l'air n°10 (CPA 10), il relate les missions à haut risque qu'il a vécues ces dernières années avec ses hommes. De l'Afrique à l'Orient, ce livre retrace l'itinéraire hors norme d'un officier-commando qui avance dans la poussière, sous le feu ennemi, affrontant la faim, la fatigue et défiant parfois la mort.

Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested--and possibly broken. Beijing believes that "reunification" is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze, isolate, and coerce Taiwan into submission without firing a shot. If deterrence fails, the consequences of a Taiwan crisis would be catastrophic.