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Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
by
Roger Faligot
Published 30 Jun 2019
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by
Jason Stearns
Published 29 Mar 2011
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by
Janek Wasserman
Published 23 Sep 2019
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
by
Christopher Andrew
Published 27 Jun 2018
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
by
Elizabeth Becker
Published 16 Apr 2013
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by
Kurt Andersen
Published 14 Sep 2020
Interventions
by
Noam Chomsky
The Passenger: Berlin
by
The Passenger
Published 8 Jun 2021
Think Like a Freak
by
Steven D. Levitt
and
Stephen J. Dubner
Published 11 May 2014
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis - and Europe - Can Be Fixed
by
John Peet
,
Anton La Guardia
and
The Economist
Published 15 Feb 2014
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
by
John Doerr
Published 23 Apr 2018
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by
Talia Lavin
Published 14 Jul 2020
The Chomsky Reader
by
Noam Chomsky
Published 11 Sep 1987
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
by
David Rooney
Published 16 Aug 2021
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
by
Chris Hadfield
Published 29 Oct 2013
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by
Dan Lyons
Published 4 Apr 2016
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
by
Dani Rodrik
Published 8 Oct 2017
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
by
Bruno Macaes
Published 25 Jan 2018
The Burning Land
by
George Alagiah
Published 28 Aug 2019
Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves
by
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Published 15 Oct 2009
China: A History
by
John Keay
Published 5 Oct 2009
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by
Tim Butcher
Published 2 Jun 2013
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
by
Sophie Pedder
Published 20 Jun 2018
Corbyn
by
Richard Seymour
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by
Mckenzie Funk
Published 22 Jan 2014
British Rail
by
Christian Wolmar
Published 9 Jun 2022
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
by
Helaine Olen
Published 27 Dec 2012
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by
Iain Gately
Published 6 Nov 2014
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
by
Ken Auletta
Published 4 Jun 2018
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by
Peter Robison
Published 29 Nov 2021
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
by
Jonathan A. Knee
Published 31 Jul 2006
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by
vpavan
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by
Peter Geoghegan
Published 2 Jan 2020
Cyclopedia
by
William Fotheringham
Published 22 Sep 2011
The Quants
by
Scott Patterson
Published 2 Feb 2010
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
by
Mary Elise Sarotte
Published 6 Oct 2014
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by
Clive Thompson
Published 11 Sep 2013
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
by
Brendan Simms
Published 27 Apr 2016
Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response
by
Tony Connelly
Published 4 Oct 2017
Hidden Figures
by
Margot Lee Shetterly
Published 11 Aug 2016
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy
by
Michael Dobbs
Published 24 May 2021
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by
Benjamin Breen
Published 16 Jan 2024
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by
William Rosen
Published 31 May 2010
It's Our Turn to Eat
by
Michela Wrong
Published 9 Apr 2009
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
by
David Graeber
Published 14 May 2018
Hedgehogging
by
Barton Biggs
Published 3 Jan 2005
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
by
Giles Milton
Published 26 May 2021
Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
by
Jonathan Haslam
Published 21 Sep 2015
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
by
David Carey
Published 7 Feb 2012
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
by
Steven Levy
Published 15 Jan 2002
Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
by
Serhii Plokhy
Published 9 Oct 2017
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
by
Brigid Schulte
Published 11 Mar 2014
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by
Matthew Sweet
Published 13 Feb 2018
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
by
Martyn Rady
Published 24 Aug 2020
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by
Javier Blas
and
Jack Farchy
Published 25 Feb 2021
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
by
James B Stewart
and
Rachel Abrams
Published 14 Feb 2023
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Published 15 Mar 2022
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by
Walter Isaacson
and
Evan Thomas
Published 28 Feb 2012
The Cobweb
by
Neal Stephenson
and
J. Frederick George
Published 31 May 2005
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Published 27 Jun 2016
Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society
by
Will Hutton
Published 30 Sep 2010
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by
Clive Thompson
Published 26 Mar 2019
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
by
Scott J. Shapiro
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by
Mehrsa Baradaran
Published 7 May 2024
Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century
by
Tom Bower
Published 1 Jan 2009
The Enemy Within
by
Seumas Milne
Published 1 Dec 1994
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East
by
James Barr
Published 15 Feb 2011
The Economic Weapon
by
Nicholas Mulder
Published 15 Mar 2021
The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
by
Colin Shindler
Published 29 Jul 2015
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by
Wikileaks
Published 24 Aug 2015
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by
Annie Jacobsen
Published 11 Feb 2014
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by
Craig Nelson
Published 25 Mar 2014
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
by
Frederick Taylor
Published 26 May 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Published 16 Nov 2010
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
by
Benn Steil
Published 13 Feb 2018
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941
by
Alan Allport
Published 2 Sep 2020
The Age of Wonder
by
Richard Holmes
Published 15 Jan 2008
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
by
Mark Mazower
Published 4 Nov 2021
Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
by
Michael Knox Beran
Published 2 Aug 2021
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by
Norman Stone
Published 15 Feb 2010
Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World
by
Nir Rosen
Published 21 Apr 2011
A History of Zionism
by
Walter Laqueur
Published 1 Jan 1972
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by
Adam Tooze
Published 31 Jul 2018
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by
Malcolm Harris
Published 14 Feb 2023
Seveneves
by
Neal Stephenson
Published 19 May 2015
The Rough Guide to Brazil
by
Rough Guides
Published 22 Sep 2018
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by
Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007