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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order - Why Nations Succeed or Fail

Learning the lessons from the past helps us to understand how we can make the most of the opportunities in the turbulent times ahead

World Order

"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter Isaacson, Time Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation...

On China

Henry Kissinger served as National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and has advised many...

Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE ...

World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

The summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft, WORLD ORDER examines the great tectonic plates of his...

Utopia for Realists - And How We Can Get There

Walden

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusett...

Prisoners of Geography

ON THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE CRISIS - What is driving Russia's foreign policy? Why do Putin's actions mirror those made in the past? Prisoners o...

Political Order and Political Decay - From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisatin of Democracy

If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent...

Autocracy, Inc - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, t...

Strategic Vision - America and the Crisis of Global Power

By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing t...

American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic...

Violence - Six sideways reflections

Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic syste...

Democracy - A Narrative from Aristotle to Donald Trump

This essay describes the idea of democracy and its reception from the time of Aristotle to the present. The introductory section consider...

The Storm Before the Calm - America's Discord, the Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting h...

The Narrow Corridor - States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how l...

The Origins of Political Order - From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence...

Autocracy, Inc. - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine th...

The Prince

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithWorld-changing ideas meet eye-catc...

Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller, as sh...

The Strange Death of Europe - Immigration, Identity, Islam

Becoming

"In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. ...

Friedman, G: Storm Before the Calm - America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting h...

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dom...

On Grand Strategy

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades For almost two de...

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left

Our Revolution - A Future to Believe in

'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesBernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordina...

The Showman - The Inside Story of the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TelegraphBest Book of the Year 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our...

Against Progress

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions whic...

War

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars-Ukraine, the Middle East and the ...

Pakistan: A Hard Country

Anatol Lieven is Professor of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College, London and a senior fellow of the New Amer...

Weapons of Math Destruction - How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apar...

The New Map - Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate ...

The Dictator's Handbook

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started fro...

How Propaganda Works

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influ...

Strategy - A History

One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this con...

It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at t...

Identity - The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its...

The Narrow Corridor - How Nations Struggle for Liberty

The Last Girl - My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimat...

Kissinger: Volume 1 - 1923-1968: The Idealist

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on un...

Imagined Communities - Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in...

Against Democracy - New Preface by the Author

"Jason Brennan is a marvel: a brilliant philosopher who scrupulously studies the facts before he moralizes. In Against Democracy, his ele...

Who Rules the World?

A New York Times Bestseller With a New Afterword The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. poli...

Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author who has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the re...

107 Days

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest...

Political Order and Political Decay - From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress cal...

Twilight of Democracy - The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned lib...

The City and Man

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics," Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' ...

Tyrant - Shakespeare on Politics

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the ps...

When China Rules the World - The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques's global bestseller is an essential guide to understand...

The Communist Manifesto

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-cat...

The Coming Wave - Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global or...

Hobbes: Leviathan - Revised student edition

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of gre...

The Secret History of the American Empire - The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How To Change The World

New York Times bestseller From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an expos...

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

What are our human rights? What are their philosophical justifications and historical origins? Focusing on highly topical issues such as ...

Abundance - The Future Is Better Than You Think

The New York Times bestselling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing con...

Why Liberalism Failed - with a new preface

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century-fascism, communism, and liberal...

War

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward delivers an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes narrative exp...

Twilight of Democracy - The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nat...