The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict
By: Mark Leonard
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world'…
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1. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
By: Kevin Dutton
3.75
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the… read more
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"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, is…"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
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2. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
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3. The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
4.28
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more
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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
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4. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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5. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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6. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
7. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
By: Desmond Shum
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more
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8. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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9. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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10. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
11. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
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12. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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13. Overreach
By: Owen Matthews
4.37
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more
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14. And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy
By: Catherine Ashton
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
So much of modern-day diplomacy still takes place behind closed doors, away from cameras and prying… read more
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15. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
By: Richard Ovenden
3.72
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful d… read more
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16. Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
By: Peter Heather
3.59
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view bot… read more
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17. Rowerem przez II RP. Niezwykła podróż po kraju, którego już nie ma
By: Bernard Newman
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Taka podróż byłaby dziś niemożliwa… bez paszportu Niezwykła wyprawa rowerowa angielskiego dżente… read more
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18. Cywilizacja Słowian. Prawdziwa historia największego ludu Europy
By: Kamil Janicki
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Czy Słowianom udało się stworzyć własną cywilizację? Czy Słowianie znaleźli się na ziemiach pols… read more
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19. Het is oorlog maar niemand die het ziet
By: Huib Modderkolk
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Een platgelegde Rotterdamse haven. Nederlandse spionnen die digitaal toeslaan in Moskou. Artsen die… read more
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20. The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict
By: Mark Leonard
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world'… read more
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21. The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit
By: Aja Raden
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do you believe what you believe? You’ve been lied to. Probably a lot. We’re always stunned whe… read more
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