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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the ...

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From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech's boldest thinkers and¿ The Economist's "best CEO of 2024," and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West's culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambit...

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In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism...

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A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentie...

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Who works for the government and why does their work matter? Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and The Fifth Risk, along with an all-star team of writers and storytellers, takes us on a riveting journey into a hidden world The gov...

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Exploring how intelligence professionals view accountability in the context of twenty-first century politics.How can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable when what they do is largely secret? Using the UK as a ...

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! NEW YORK TIMES¿BESTSELLER! The renowned author of¿Between the World and Me¿journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell-and the ones we don't-shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always ...

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A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfull...

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Essential and authoritative. Sheds serious light on the dark money, dark ideas & dark souls propelling Trump's cruelty and betrayal of the USA' - James O'Brien In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential el...

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." -Huffington Post "Scathing." -New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." -Politico "So many revelations." -Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe "Bombs...

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From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Despite his f...

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'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Mariana Mazzucato Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944...

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Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies...

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A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGING THE MANY MISCONCEPTIONS SURROUNDING THE TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION. 'A book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions . . . an important book' The Telegraph 'A careful, balanced, and convinci...

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A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers ¿ Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize¿*¿Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year A...

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The ultimate, comprehensive guide to official country data and statistics, from the world's most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organization. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2024-2025 offers complete and up-to-date infor...

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WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 'A brilliantly original book' Financial Times 'One of the masterpieces of modern historical writing' Daily Telegraph Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctua...

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Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP'...

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Thrilling.' New York Times The most d...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES ¿10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today?¿From the bestselling author of¿ The Dark Side , an electrifying work of investigative j...

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Just when we most need our government to work - to decarbonise our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats - it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the di...

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