military-industrial complex
description: concept in military and political science
471 results
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel · 24 Mar 2026 · 348pp · 103,246 words
have lines of effort, but no strategy.” In fact, there was a strategy, and it required going beyond even the scope of the Cold War military-industrial complex to coordinate the whole of society. If Moscow was going to wage permanent hybrid war, then Washington would have to do the same. Let the
The Danger Within Us
by Jeanne Lenzer · 12 Dec 2017 · 328pp · 98,127 words
now the single biggest sector of the US economy. It is bigger than big oil, bigger than big banking, and bigger even than the famous military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech. In 2013, the most generous estimate pegged the price of the
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military-industrial complex at $1.3 trillion, while healthcare expenditures in 2015 were $3.2 trillion, consuming nearly one of every five dollars spent in the US.52,
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complex. In October 1980, Arnold Relman, then editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, described “The New Medical-Industrial Complex,” comparing it to the military-industrial complex, and said it posed “troubling implications.” The birth of the medical-industrial complex can be traced in part to the explosion of new healthcare technologies
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afoot to insulate university-based research from corporate pressures. The unpopularity of the Vietnam War led to massive campus protests against the power of the military-industrial complex. Students and politically engaged citizens, including many academics, demanded that universities distance themselves from doing research for corporate entities. But politicians—themselves often the recipients
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of funding from the military-industrial complex—fought back fiercely. They not only wanted universities to conduct military research, they also wanted the US to be the global leader in scientific and
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
something like that on one of my systems!”[25] In fairness to Musk, he was not the only engineer to find Terminator tropes irresistible. The military-industrial complexes in the United States and Britain had each seen fit to name a futuristic system after Skynet. The prospect of killer computers was frightening. Somehow
The Extreme Centre: A Warning
by Tariq Ali · 22 Jan 2015 · 160pp · 46,449 words
protect and sustain the system of global capitalism remain firmly anchored in Washington. The Pacific and the Atlantic are both the setting for an outsize military-industrial complex and the world’s largest national economy. The interrelationship between the two is likely to determine the course of the twenty-first century, with Europe
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges · 31 Aug 2002 · 218pp · 61,301 words
African states, has left the country beset by violent crime and dominated by armed militias and gangs. We are hostage to a vast and powerful military-industrial complex that exports more weapons than all other nations combined. I knew a Muslim soldier, a father, who fought on the front lines around Sarajveo. His
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
by Robert B. Reich · 21 Sep 2010 · 147pp · 45,890 words
university research, particularly in the sciences. Cold War defense spending generated what might be called an “industrial commons” that spilled over into commercial production. The military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower so decorously dubbed it, invented small transistors that eventually were utilized in everything from televisions to wristwatches. The Department of Defense also researched
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by Steve Olson · 28 Jul 2020 · 378pp · 103,136 words
the United States Atomic Energy Commission. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Hiltzik, Michael. 2015. Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex. New York: Simon & Schuster. Hoddeson, Lillian, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, and Catherine Westfall. 1993. Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during
Lethal Passage
by Erik Larson · 27 Jul 2011 · 291pp · 87,296 words
Union’s list of American targets most worthy of nuclear obliteration. The region in and around Hampton Roads comprises a good chunk of America’s military-industrial complex, including Langley Air Force Base, Fort Eustis, the U.S. Naval Station at Norfolk, the Newport News shipyard, and the U.S. Naval Weapons Station
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
to decide what to do about the decade-long U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. The anticorporate protesters of Occupy Chicago also strongly opposed the military-industrial complex, and as they made plans for large-scale demonstrations, alarmed city leaders marshaled a heavy police presence in response. Martinez decided to join the protest
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 20 Nov 2018 · 211pp · 57,759 words
as conservatives to privilege the interests of capital over those of labor: think of the reckless expansion of so-called free trade, or the brutal military-industrial complex. For most of my life, I would have been hard-pressed to define capitalism, because in the news and in my textbooks, no other ways
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore · 23 Jul 2018 · 476pp · 124,973 words
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk · 29 Apr 2013
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty
by Harry Browne · 1 Jan 1973 · 312pp · 114,586 words
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
by Owen Matthews · 21 Mar 2019 · 589pp · 162,849 words
Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
by Paul Collier · 9 Feb 2010 · 264pp · 74,313 words
Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
by Russell Napier · 18 Jan 2016 · 358pp · 119,272 words
What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer · 19 Jan 2016 · 558pp · 168,179 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
Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy From Devaluation to Brexit
by William Keegan · 24 Jan 2019 · 309pp · 85,584 words
American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
by F. H. Buckley · 14 Jan 2020
Moscow, December 25th, 1991
by Conor O'Clery · 31 Jul 2011 · 449pp · 127,440 words
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins · 1 Jan 2006 · 497pp · 123,718 words
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
by Andrew J. Bacevich · 7 Jan 2020 · 254pp · 68,133 words
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad · 4 Sep 2017 · 846pp · 250,145 words
Rust: The Longest War
by Jonathan Waldman · 10 Mar 2015 · 347pp · 112,727 words
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
by Tim Marshall · 10 Oct 2016 · 306pp · 79,537 words
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
by Rahm Emanuel · 25 Feb 2020 · 212pp · 69,846 words
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Dec 2003 · 538pp · 164,533 words
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words
Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker · 29 Nov 2015
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer · 12 May 2010 · 247pp · 68,918 words
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake · 15 Dec 2010 · 282pp · 92,998 words
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
by Thomas Geoghegan · 20 Sep 2011 · 364pp · 104,697 words
China's Future
by David Shambaugh · 11 Mar 2016 · 261pp · 57,595 words
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones · 4 Feb 2020 · 303pp · 75,192 words
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941
by Alan Allport · 2 Sep 2020 · 1,520pp · 221,543 words
Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross · 562pp · 177,195 words
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by Richard McGregor · 8 Jun 2010
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
The Oil Age Is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050
by Matt Savinar · 2 Jan 2004 · 127pp · 51,083 words
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor and Saul Singer · 3 Nov 2009 · 285pp · 81,743 words
The Zenith Angle
by Bruce Sterling · 27 Apr 2004 · 342pp · 95,013 words
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
by John Darwin · 5 Feb 2008 · 650pp · 203,191 words
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
by Ian Bremmer · 30 Apr 2012 · 234pp · 63,149 words
Chomsky on Mis-Education
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Mar 2000
The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Michael Meyer · 7 Sep 2009 · 323pp · 95,188 words
The Great Depression: A Diary
by Benjamin Roth, James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth · 21 Jul 2009 · 408pp · 94,311 words
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane · 14 Jul 2017 · 308pp · 99,298 words
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner · 26 Mar 2007
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
by Medea Benjamin · 8 Apr 2013 · 188pp · 54,942 words
The Disappearing Act
by Florence de Changy · 24 Dec 2020
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
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 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
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Mar 2009 · 1,037pp · 294,916 words
How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
by Andy Kessler · 13 Jun 2005 · 218pp · 63,471 words
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding · 14 Jun 2010 · 385pp · 133,839 words
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers
by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words
Why Orwell Matters
by Christopher Hitchens · 1 Jan 2002 · 184pp · 54,833 words
Underground
by Suelette Dreyfus · 1 Jan 2011 · 547pp · 160,071 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 words
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by Norman Stone · 15 Feb 2010 · 851pp · 247,711 words
A Theory of the Drone
by Gregoire Chamayou · 23 Apr 2013 · 335pp · 82,528 words
Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio · 9 Sep 2018 · 782pp · 187,875 words
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan · 21 Sep 2009 · 589pp · 197,971 words
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
by Justin Peters · 11 Feb 2013 · 397pp · 102,910 words
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin · 9 Sep 2019 · 327pp · 84,627 words
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum · 31 Mar 2002
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff · 1 Oct 2012 · 165pp · 48,594 words
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr · 19 Feb 2019
The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage · 21 Apr 2020 · 378pp · 121,495 words
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy · 15 Jan 1989 · 1,477pp · 311,310 words
Only Americans Burn in Hell
by Jarett Kobek · 10 Apr 2019 · 338pp · 74,302 words
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
by Ronald Purser · 8 Jul 2019 · 242pp · 67,233 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
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks · 2 Jun 2004 · 262pp · 79,469 words
Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy · 29 Feb 2012 · 624pp · 191,758 words
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World's Greatest Store
by Gene Pressman · 2 Sep 2025 · 313pp · 107,586 words
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
by Deborah D. Avant · 17 Oct 2010 · 872pp · 135,196 words
The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson · 1 Jan 2006 · 332pp · 109,213 words
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris · 11 Oct 2010 · 1,152pp · 266,246 words
The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis · 1 Jan 2005 · 392pp · 106,532 words
How the World Works
by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian · 13 Sep 2011 · 489pp · 111,305 words
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power
by Patrick Major · 5 Nov 2009 · 669pp · 150,886 words
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
Farewell
by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud · 14 Apr 2011 · 485pp · 148,662 words
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
Coastal California
by Lonely Planet
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
by Bradley K. Martin · 14 Oct 2004 · 1,509pp · 416,377 words
Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 1995
Rethinking Camelot
by Noam Chomsky · 7 Apr 2015
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport · 20 Mar 2018 · 390pp · 108,171 words
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos · 1 Jan 1994 · 382pp · 116,351 words
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
by David A. Mindell · 10 Oct 2002 · 759pp · 166,687 words
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know
by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman · 3 Jan 2014 · 587pp · 117,894 words
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. · 15 Jan 1987
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words
The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
by Richard Whittle · 26 Apr 2010 · 616pp · 189,609 words
The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe · 1 Jan 1956 · 568pp · 174,089 words
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
by Jonathan Haslam · 21 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 131,496 words
The Profiteers
by Sally Denton · 556pp · 141,069 words
The Streets Were Paved With Gold
by Ken Auletta · 14 Jul 1980 · 407pp · 135,242 words
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
by Misha Glenny · 3 Oct 2011 · 274pp · 85,557 words
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 1 Sep 2020 · 134pp · 41,085 words
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl · 14 Jul 2021 · 265pp · 80,510 words
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. And the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman · 14 Oct 2023 · 567pp · 171,072 words
Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
by Annalee Newitz · 3 Jun 2024 · 251pp · 68,713 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by Steve Coll · 27 Feb 2024 · 738pp · 196,803 words
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson · 25 Sep 2023 · 525pp · 166,724 words
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
by Victor Davis Hanson · 16 Oct 2017 · 908pp · 262,808 words
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 6 Oct 2011 · 471pp · 109,267 words
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Frank Barat · 9 Nov 2010 · 279pp · 72,659 words
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
by Geoff Dyer · 19 May 2014 · 169pp · 56,555 words
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
by Richard Whittle · 15 Sep 2014 · 455pp · 131,569 words
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges · 14 May 2010 · 422pp · 89,770 words
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley · 5 Feb 2013 · 744pp · 142,748 words
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 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 Gun
by C. J. Chivers · 12 Oct 2010 · 845pp · 197,050 words
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill · 1 Jan 2007 · 924pp · 198,159 words
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
by Kees Van der Pijl · 2 Jun 2014 · 572pp · 134,335 words
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman · 1 Jan 2009 · 719pp · 209,224 words
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words
The Rich and the Rest of Us
by Tavis Smiley · 15 Feb 2012 · 181pp · 50,196 words
Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
by R. Christopher Whalen · 7 Dec 2010 · 488pp · 144,145 words
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by Richard Heinberg · 1 Jun 2011 · 372pp · 107,587 words
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
by Anatol Lieven · 3 May 2010
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It
by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Oct 2014
The End of Work
by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words
Masters of Mankind
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 2014
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance · 18 May 2015 · 370pp · 129,096 words
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Sugrue, Thomas J.
How the Post Office Created America: A History
by Winifred Gallagher · 7 Jan 2016 · 431pp · 106,435 words
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer · 24 Sep 2018 · 443pp · 125,510 words
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson · 20 Mar 2007
1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
by Taylor Downing · 23 Apr 2018 · 400pp · 121,708 words
Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
by Serhii Plokhy · 1 Mar 2018 · 465pp · 140,800 words
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age
by Robert Stone and Alan Andres · 3 Jun 2019
Losing Earth: A Recent History
by Nathaniel Rich · 4 Aug 2018 · 148pp · 45,249 words
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
by James Ball · 19 Aug 2020 · 268pp · 76,702 words
The Future Won't Be Long
by Jarett Kobek · 15 Aug 2017 · 510pp · 138,000 words
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure · 18 May 2020 · 459pp · 138,689 words
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder · 2 Apr 2018
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
by Roger Faligot · 30 Jun 2019 · 615pp · 187,426 words
Artificial Whiteness
by Yarden Katz
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 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 Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller · 17 Jul 2023 · 469pp · 149,526 words
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport · 6 Sep 2025 · 441pp · 127,950 words
The Big Score
by Michael S. Malone · 20 Jul 2021
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
by Ian Kumekawa · 6 May 2025 · 422pp · 112,638 words
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
by Jordan Thomas · 27 May 2025 · 347pp · 105,327 words
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey · 2 Jan 1995 · 318pp · 85,824 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
Stealth
by Peter Westwick · 22 Nov 2019 · 474pp · 87,687 words
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Accelerando
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game
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