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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

by Mark Lilla  · 19 Oct 2015  · 113pp  · 36,039 words

all values. . . . Morality is a residue of the old world. After many thousands of the victims of the Vietcong escaped on their rafts into the South China Sea in the mid-1970s, and millions (not hundreds of thousands) were butchered in Cambodia, the French romance with revolution seemed to end. During the following

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman  · 31 Dec 1970  · 181pp  · 54,629 words

or so, which counted out to about two-eighths more than the Captain could tolerate. So we parted company. He accepted a command in the South China Sea, and I became a Doctor of Gonzo Journalism … and many years later, killing time in the Las Vegas airport this terrible morning, I picked up

Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

by Andrew Hallam  · 1 Nov 2011  · 274pp  · 60,596 words

things they could buy today if they sold that gold. They might imagine buying a yacht or Gulfstream jet, or their own island in the South China Sea. Then break their bubble with the revelation in Figure 8.1. Selling that gold would give them enough money to fill the gas tank of

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova  · 22 Jun 2020  · 377pp  · 117,339 words

time. One of the longest nonstop flights in the world, from New York to Hong Kong, followed by an hour-long ferry ride over the South China Sea to old Macau, followed by yet another trip over the island and to its new gambling home on Cotai. The City of Dreams, a large

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

re-evaluate their confidence in the long-term China business case.” Already, many companies are doing just that, rethinking supply chains that run through the South China Sea, moving production out of China to places like Vietnam and Mexico, and considering how political risk and conflict between the two powers may affect their

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

by Richard Horton  · 31 May 2020  · 106pp  · 33,210 words

all too clear – China’s Belt and Road Initiative, its increasingly aggressive stance on Hong Kong and Taiwan, and its claims over islands in the South China Sea. China has to be contained. The Chinese perspective is very different. After a century of humiliation at the hands of a colonially minded West, China

Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World

by Jesse Krieger  · 2 Jun 2014  · 189pp  · 52,741 words

the horizon and glowed upon each ripple in the river, which snaked along the outskirts of Taipei all the way to the mouth of the South China Sea. A tropical storm blew through yesterday afternoon leaving behind clear skies and a light mist lingering on the mangroves and foliage lining the Danshui river

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

by Marc Lewis Phd  · 5 Mar 2013  · 332pp  · 101,772 words

to the bottom of the country, with smaller ridges radiating out on both sides, tumbling down toward the Malacca Strait in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Here at the summit were the Cameron Highlands, a paradise of cool breezes blowing across hilltops at least a thousand metres above

The State of the Art

by Iain M. Banks  · 15 Sep 1997  · 108pp  · 63,808 words

the glittering glassware (Edinburgh Crystal, removed for a few hours from packing cases stowed deep in Page 87 the hold of a freighter in the South China Sea, bound for Yokohama) and the candelabra (from a cache of loot lying under a lake near Kiev, sunk there by retreating Nazis judging from the

Art of Learning

by Josh Waitzkin  · 7 May 2007  · 222pp  · 76,854 words

, December 2–5, 2004 Clouds moved fast, dark and grey, the rain coming in gusts and then tapering off as Typhoon Nanmadol surged over the South China Sea. I’ve always loved storms; now these fierce winds made me electric. It was Thursday evening, forty hours from battle, and I stood at the

The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song

by Dylan Jones  · 29 Jul 2019  · 197pp  · 67,764 words

Accelerando

by Stross, Charles  · 22 Jan 2005  · 489pp  · 148,885 words

Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

by Robert H. Latiff  · 25 Sep 2017  · 158pp  · 46,353 words

The Scandal of Money

by George Gilder  · 23 Feb 2016  · 209pp  · 53,236 words

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

by Corey Seymour, Johnny Depp and Jann S. Wenner  · 31 Oct 2007  · 462pp  · 151,805 words

The Passenger: Berlin

by The Passenger  · 8 Jun 2021  · 199pp  · 63,724 words

The End of Indexing: Six Structural Mega-Trends That Threaten Passive Investing

by Niels Jensen  · 25 Mar 2018  · 205pp  · 55,435 words

Tails I Lose: The Compulsive Gambler Who Lost His Shirt for Good

by Justyn Rees  · 25 Jun 2014  · 217pp  · 73,289 words

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

by Stephen Fry  · 27 Sep 2010  · 487pp  · 132,252 words

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir  · 15 May 2021  · 576pp  · 150,183 words

Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson  · 11 Jun 2012  · 356pp  · 105,533 words

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes  · 28 Jan 2025  · 359pp  · 100,761 words

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

by Nicholas Schou  · 16 Mar 2010  · 259pp  · 87,875 words

Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

by Hamish McKenzie  · 30 Sep 2017  · 307pp  · 90,634 words

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

by Tyler Cowen  · 27 Feb 2017  · 287pp  · 82,576 words

Infinite Detail

by Tim Maughan  · 1 Apr 2019  · 303pp  · 81,071 words

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson  · 25 Sep 2023  · 525pp  · 166,724 words

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

Espresso Tales

by Alexander McCall Smith  · 1 Jan 2005  · 419pp  · 119,368 words

Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

by K. Eric Drexler  · 6 May 2013  · 445pp  · 105,255 words

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel  · 14 Apr 2008

Powers and Prospects

by Noam Chomsky  · 16 Sep 2015

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell  · 21 Jan 2020  · 450pp  · 113,173 words

Running Money

by Andy Kessler  · 4 Jun 2007  · 323pp  · 92,135 words

The Linguist: A Personal Guide to Language Learning

by Steve Kaufmann  · 15 Jan 2003

Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit

by Loren C. Steffy  · 5 Nov 2010  · 305pp  · 79,356 words

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

by T. R. Reid  · 15 Aug 2009  · 294pp  · 85,811 words

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global

by Rebecca Fannin  · 2 Sep 2019  · 269pp  · 70,543 words

Speed

by Bob Gilliland and Keith Dunnavant  · 319pp  · 84,772 words

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

by Bradley Hope  · 1 Nov 2022  · 257pp  · 77,612 words

Immortality, Inc.

by Chip Walter  · 7 Jan 2020  · 232pp  · 72,483 words

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

by Jing Tsu  · 18 Jan 2022  · 408pp  · 105,715 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter  · 11 Nov 2014  · 492pp  · 153,565 words

The Light That Failed: A Reckoning

by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes  · 31 Oct 2019  · 300pp  · 87,374 words

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

by Kenneth Payne  · 16 Jun 2021  · 339pp  · 92,785 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space

by Stephen Walker  · 12 Apr 2021  · 546pp  · 164,489 words

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer  · 24 Sep 2018  · 443pp  · 125,510 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle  · 18 Jun 2018  · 301pp  · 85,263 words

May We Be Forgiven

by A. M. Homes  · 14 Jun 2012

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 10 Dec 2013  · 203pp  · 63,257 words

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway  · 19 Oct 1991  · 496pp  · 162,951 words

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 22 Apr 2019  · 462pp  · 129,022 words

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine  · 1 Jan 1990  · 230pp  · 72,642 words

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

by Desmond Shum  · 6 Sep 2021  · 277pp  · 85,191 words

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

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

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

Islands in the Net

by Bruce Sterling  · 31 May 1988  · 509pp  · 137,315 words

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen  · 30 Sep 2012  · 669pp  · 195,743 words

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Jun 2023  · 295pp  · 87,204 words

Global Financial Crisis

by Noah Berlatsky  · 19 Feb 2010

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi  · 15 Sep 2009  · 523pp  · 144,971 words

The Beach

by Alex Garland  · 1 Jan 1996

The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World

by Shaun Rein  · 27 Mar 2012  · 251pp  · 63,630 words

Dispatches

by Michael Herr  · 1 Jan 1977  · 249pp  · 87,445 words

The Extreme Centre: A Warning

by Tariq Ali  · 22 Jan 2015  · 160pp  · 46,449 words

Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

by Andrew Cockburn  · 10 Mar 2015  · 389pp  · 108,344 words

Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles

by Fintan O'Toole  · 5 Mar 2020  · 385pp  · 121,550 words

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

by Ben Rhodes  · 1 Jun 2021  · 342pp  · 114,118 words

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict

by Max Brooks, John Amble, M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates  · 14 May 2018  · 278pp  · 84,002 words

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams  · 11 Mar 2025  · 370pp  · 115,318 words

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev  · 29 Jul 2019  · 240pp  · 74,182 words

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum  · 14 May 2020  · 307pp  · 88,745 words

If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore  · 14 Sep 2020  · 467pp  · 149,632 words

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria  · 5 Oct 2020  · 289pp  · 86,165 words

Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

by Rana Mitter  · 25 Feb 2016  · 193pp  · 46,052 words

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2010  · 386pp  · 122,595 words

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

by Matthew Sweet  · 13 Feb 2018  · 493pp  · 136,235 words

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau  · 3 Aug 2016  · 586pp  · 160,321 words

SuperFreakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  · 19 Oct 2009  · 302pp  · 83,116 words

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

by David S. Abraham  · 27 Oct 2015  · 386pp  · 91,913 words

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

by Peter Warren Singer  · 1 Jan 2003  · 482pp  · 161,169 words

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947

by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan  · 9 Apr 2018

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

by Peter Baker  · 21 Oct 2013

The Rise of the Network Society

by Manuel Castells  · 31 Aug 1996  · 843pp  · 223,858 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

by Mark Leonard  · 4 Sep 2000  · 131pp  · 41,052 words

On the Road: Adventures From Nixon to Trump

by James Naughtie  · 1 Apr 2020

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky  · 30 Dec 2003  · 538pp  · 164,533 words

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

by Richard McGregor  · 8 Jun 2010

The Abandonment of the West

by Michael Kimmage  · 21 Apr 2020  · 378pp  · 121,495 words

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan  · 25 Feb 2020  · 443pp  · 116,832 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze  · 15 Nov 2021  · 561pp  · 138,158 words

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

Armed Humanitarians

by Nathan Hodge  · 1 Sep 2011  · 390pp  · 119,527 words

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

by Benn Steil  · 14 May 2013  · 710pp  · 164,527 words

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

by Jeff Faux  · 16 May 2012  · 364pp  · 99,613 words

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

by Ben Rhodes  · 4 Jun 2018  · 470pp  · 148,444 words

The Cleaner: The True Story of One of the World's Most Successful Money Launderers

by Bruce Aitken  · 2 Mar 2017

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism

by Matt Mason

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

by Lynne Olson  · 2 Feb 2010  · 564pp  · 178,408 words

The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters

by Christine Negroni  · 26 Sep 2016  · 269pp  · 74,955 words

India's Long Road

by Vijay Joshi  · 21 Feb 2017

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

by Ruchir Sharma  · 5 Jun 2016  · 566pp  · 163,322 words

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze  · 31 Jul 2018  · 1,066pp  · 273,703 words

The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

by Michael Scott Moore  · 23 Jul 2018  · 476pp  · 124,973 words

The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

by Edward Hollis  · 10 Nov 2009  · 444pp  · 107,664 words

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

by Monica L. Smith  · 31 Mar 2019  · 304pp  · 85,291 words

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins  · 18 May 2020  · 393pp  · 115,178 words

The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

by Mark Synnott  · 5 Mar 2019  · 389pp  · 131,688 words

The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization

by Michael O’sullivan  · 28 May 2019  · 756pp  · 120,818 words

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

by Tom Burgis  · 24 Mar 2015  · 413pp  · 119,379 words

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

by Geoffrey Cain  · 28 Jun 2021  · 340pp  · 90,674 words

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis  · 19 May 2021  · 516pp  · 116,875 words

The Smartest Guys in the Room

by Bethany McLean  · 25 Nov 2013  · 778pp  · 233,096 words

Lonely Planet Singapore

by Lonely Planet  · 14 May 2024  · 232pp  · 61,272 words

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber  · 3 Oct 2024  · 424pp  · 123,730 words

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

by David Eimer  · 13 Aug 2014  · 316pp  · 103,743 words

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

by Ashlee Vance  · 8 May 2023  · 558pp  · 175,965 words

Sunfall

by Jim Al-Khalili  · 17 Apr 2019  · 381pp  · 120,361 words

The End of Growth

by Jeff Rubin  · 2 Sep 2013  · 262pp  · 83,548 words

The Gun

by C. J. Chivers  · 12 Oct 2010  · 845pp  · 197,050 words

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

by Edward Luce  · 20 Apr 2017  · 223pp  · 58,732 words

The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

by Michael Levi  · 28 Apr 2013

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux  · 1 Jan 1975  · 383pp  · 118,458 words

Red Storm Rising

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1986

Without Remorse

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1993

Some Remarks

by Neal Stephenson  · 6 Aug 2012  · 335pp  · 107,779 words

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos  · 1 Jan 1994  · 382pp  · 116,351 words

The Great Firewall of China

by James Griffiths;  · 15 Jan 2018  · 453pp  · 114,250 words

How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell  · 1 Jul 2013  · 868pp  · 147,152 words

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard  · 15 Mar 2006

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire

by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson  · 15 Jan 2019  · 502pp  · 128,126 words

The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration

by Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees  · 18 Apr 2022  · 192pp  · 63,813 words

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

by Vaclav Smil  · 4 May 2021  · 252pp  · 60,959 words

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

by Lionel Barber  · 5 Nov 2020

Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations

by Chris Santella  · 1 Oct 2008  · 197pp  · 62,544 words

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

by Raghuram Rajan  · 26 Feb 2019  · 596pp  · 163,682 words

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks  · 8 Aug 2016  · 548pp  · 147,919 words

Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die

by Chris Santella  · 7 Sep 2011  · 197pp  · 62,546 words

The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir

by Karen Cheung  · 15 Feb 2022  · 297pp  · 96,945 words

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

by P. W. Singer and August Cole  · 28 Jun 2015  · 537pp  · 149,628 words

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Engines of War: How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways

by Christian Wolmar  · 1 Nov 2011  · 410pp  · 122,537 words

China's Future

by David Shambaugh  · 11 Mar 2016  · 261pp  · 57,595 words

The Diamond Age

by Neal Stephenson  · 2 May 2000  · 611pp  · 186,716 words

A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

by Lewis Sorley  · 2 Jun 1999  · 565pp  · 160,402 words

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk  · 29 Apr 2013

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope  · 17 Sep 2018  · 354pp  · 110,570 words

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

by Bill Streever  · 21 Jul 2009  · 302pp  · 92,507 words

The Moon: A History for the Future

by Oliver Morton  · 1 May 2019  · 319pp  · 100,984 words

The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World

by William Drozdiak  · 27 Apr 2020  · 241pp  · 75,417 words

Lonely Planet's 2016 Best in Travel

by Lonely Planet  · 30 Sep 2015  · 190pp  · 50,133 words

The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt

by Russell Napier  · 19 Jul 2021  · 511pp  · 151,359 words

Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who ...

by David Barrie  · 12 May 2014  · 366pp  · 100,602 words

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

by Evan Osnos  · 12 May 2014  · 499pp  · 152,156 words

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

by David E. Sanger  · 18 Jun 2018  · 394pp  · 117,982 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

by Matt Simon  · 24 Jun 2022  · 254pp  · 82,981 words

Into the Raging Sea

by Rachel Slade  · 4 Apr 2018  · 390pp  · 109,438 words

Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel  · 2 May 2022  · 363pp  · 98,496 words

A Short Ride in the Jungle

by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent  · 6 Apr 2014  · 316pp  · 100,329 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin  · 7 Nov 2023  · 348pp  · 110,533 words

Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

by Mark Synnott  · 14 Apr 2025  · 443pp  · 140,219 words

A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997

by Steve Tsang  · 14 Aug 2007  · 691pp  · 169,563 words

The London Compendium

by Ed Glinert  · 30 Jun 2004  · 1,088pp  · 297,362 words

The Rough Guide to Wales

by Rough Guides  · 14 Oct 2024  · 882pp  · 240,215 words

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini  · 17 Oct 2022  · 328pp  · 96,678 words

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson  · 1 Jan 2006  · 477pp  · 135,607 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff  · 8 Jul 2024  · 272pp  · 103,638 words

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

by Ian Bremmer  · 30 Apr 2012  · 234pp  · 63,149 words

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 14 Oct 2012  · 812pp  · 180,057 words

The confusion

by Neal Stephenson  · 13 Apr 2004  · 1,020pp  · 339,564 words

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

by Annie Jacobsen  · 16 May 2011  · 572pp  · 179,024 words

China's Good War

by Rana Mitter

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

by Oliver Morton  · 26 Sep 2015  · 469pp  · 142,230 words

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

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