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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? ...

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The outbreak of the First World War was ‘a drama never surpassed’. One hundred years later, the characters still seem larger than life: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, brooding heir to the Habsburg throne; the fanatical Bosnian Serb assassins ...

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How and why did American involvement in Afghanistan end in tragedy? Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly...

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Throughout the Second World War, the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile broadcast over the BBC from London, hoping to reach out to their former compatriots living in a divided and occupied Europe. As the only way of projecting their authority...

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Mynule lyudstva v knyzi Sapiens «Lyudyna rozumna». Maybutnye v knyzi Homo Deus «Bozhestvenna lyudyna». Nastav chas zadumatysya pro problemy sʹohodennya. Shcho oznachaye pidnesennya Donalʹda Trampa? ...

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#1 New York Times Bestseller The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century...

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A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. "There is priceless wisdom on eve

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The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing...

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As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an “age of forgetting.” Today’s world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it...

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Historians love to write about rulers—kings, emperors, presidents—or about vast social forces-migration, industrialisation-but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own lives, isn't it clear that what makes the world go ...

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As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, ...

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World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a perspective from far above the globe, it examines the great tectonic plates of history and the motivations of nations, ...

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Marzyła mi się książka o moim ulubionym kraju bez napinania się. Żeby nie musiała odzwierciedlać, obiektywizować, syntetyzować. Jestem niechlujnym czechofilem, ta książka nie jest ani ...

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Per aspera ad astra Through adversity to the stars Milan Rastislav Štefánik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the French. A virtuoso in life and death, a magnificent example of a man who in every act surpassed himself...

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In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world...

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Based on more than a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people...

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