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  • UNIT X
    UNIT X
    RAJ M. SHAH / CHRISTOPHER KIRCHHOFF
    Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year "An exceedingly important book!" —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA "Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare." —Chris Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War "Inspiring. A riveting reminder of how hard protecting our nati...
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    Q. 190

  • REVENGE
    REVENGE
    ALEX ISENSTADT
    From Politico journalist Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Trump's 2024 campaign, through his stunning reelection. According to his closest confidantes, even Donald Trump was taken aback by his decisive victory. The road to his reelection was much like everything else within Trump World; abrupt turns off the road of normalcy, head scratching comments & behavior, wit...
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  • GUERRILLA WARFARE
    GUERRILLA WARFARE
    ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA
    Che Guevara's classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedi...
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  • PUNISHING PUTIN
    PUNISHING PUTIN
    STEPHANIE BAKER
    A "masterful" (Foreign Policy), authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the United States and its European allies are waging against Russia after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine that "reads like a detective novel" (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)—written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources.Undeterred by eight year...
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    Q. 200

  • ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
    ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
    OMAR EL AKKAD
    From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental valuesOn October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold any...
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    Q. 195

  • ON DEMOCRACIES AND DEATH CULTS
    ON DEMOCRACIES AND DEATH CULTS
    DOUGLAS MURRAY
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a side.Murray is not Jewish and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the b...
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    Q. 310

  • THE PICNIC
    THE PICNIC
    MATTHEW LONGO
    In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian ...
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    Q. 210

  • HUBRIS
    HUBRIS
    HASLAM, JONATHAN
    On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began long before that historic date.After the fall of communism, politicians, professors and the public thought that democracy would spread to Eastern Europe and that these countries would share European values and beliefs. Th...
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    Q. 300

  • ERASING HISTORY
    ERASING HISTORY
    JASON STANLEY
    "I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." --Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, s...
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    Q. 300

  • THE TRUTH ABOUT IMMIGRATION
    THE TRUTH ABOUT IMMIGRATION
    ZEKE HERNANDEZ
    The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, and nonpartisan.Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict immigrants as either villains or victims. The villain narrative is that immigrants pose a threat—to our economy because they steal our jobs; our way of life bec...
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    Q. 310

  • THE PRINCE
    THE PRINCE
    STEPHEN MAHER
    The first comprehensive biography of Justin Trudeau as prime minister—an honest, compelling story of his government's triumphs and failures, based on interviews with over 200 insiders and Trudeau himself.As one of the longest-surviving prime ministers and son of the legendary Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is near royalty in Canada. But how did this forme...
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    Q. 310

  • THE RETURN OF GREAT POWERS
    THE RETURN OF GREAT POWERS
    JIM SCIUTTO
    The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as th...
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    Q. 310

  • EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE
    EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE
    JONATHAN BLITZER
    "Extraordinary... a profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life—and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit." —Patrick Radden Keefe "A searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account." —Jill LeporeAn epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through ...
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    Q. 330

  • WORLD ON THE BRINK
    WORLD ON THE BRINK
    DMITRI ALPEROVITCH / GARRETT GRAFF
    "Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Wherea...
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    Q. 210

  • THE STRUGGLE FOR TAIWAN
    THE STRUGGLE FOR TAIWAN
    SULMAAN WASIF KHAN
    A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chines...
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    Q. 330

  • ON FREEDOM
    ON FREEDOM
    TIMOTHY SNYDER
    "A brilliant exploration of freedom-what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival-by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny"-...
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    Q. 220

  • AUTOCRACY, INC.
    AUTOCRACY, INC.
    ANNE APPLEBAUM
    From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them "A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless... a masterclass in the marriage of dodgy government to international criminality... (both) deeply...
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    Q. 260

  • DIFFER WE MUST
    DIFFER WE MUST
    STEVE INSKEEP
    An Instant New York Times BestsellerA compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln's political acumen, illuminating a great politician's strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly presentIn 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyer Abraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a Kentucky slaveowner. Lincoln rebuke...
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    Q. 310

  • THE SISTER
    THE SISTER
    SUNG-YOON LEE
    This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty.The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, ...
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    Q. 310

  • ON DISINFORMATION
    ON DISINFORMATION
    LEE MCINTYRE
    A powerful, pocket-sized citizen's guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier.The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinfor...
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    Q. 160

  • HOW THINGS FALL APART
    HOW THINGS FALL APART
    ELIZABETH DORE
    Cuba is not the country it used to be. The regime is disintegrating, and unprecedented protest marches are challenging the gerontocratic Communist Party leadership.How Things Fall Apart reveals the decay of this political system through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. Born in the 1970s and 80s, these men and women recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous str...
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    Q. 150

  • THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE
    THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE
    NEIL HOWE
    Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras—or "turnings"—that ...
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    Q. 340

  • STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
    STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
    KENDI, IBRAM X.
    u003cbu003eThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian...
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    Q. 240

  • POVERTY, BY AMERICA
    POVERTY, BY AMERICA
    MATTHEW DESMOND
    u003cbu003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of u003ciu003eEvictedu003c/iu003e reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eThe United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why ...
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    Q. 290

  • MY FOURTH TIME, WE DROWNED
    MY FOURTH TIME, WE DROWNED
    SALLY HAYDEN
    The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in...
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    Q. 210

  • GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE
    GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE
    GRZEGORZ W. KOLODKO
    This book highlights the geopolitical and economic consequences of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The author, a key architect of Polish eco-nomic reforms and the most frequently cited economist from post-Com-munist countries, shares new insights into the causes and mechanisms of the Second Cold War. Written in an unorthodox, bold and lucid style, the book raises provocative ...
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    Q. 340

  • IT'S OK TO BE ANGRY ABOUT CAPITALISM
    IT'S OK TO BE ANGRY ABOUT CAPITALISM
    SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS
    u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eBESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look likeu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent t...
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    Q. 290

  • TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY
    TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY
    LEVITSKY, STEVEN / DANIEL, ZIBLATT
    "A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the v...
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    Q. 210

  • HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    MARIA RESSA
    Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account.Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to ...
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    Q. 190

  • THE BREACH
    THE BREACH
    DENVER RIGGLEMAN
    Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead.In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first member of Congress to sound the alarm ...
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