How To Lose a Country

A. C. Grayling

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common InterestsAs the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's ...

Carlo Masala

A #1 international bestseller from a NATO expert, this deeply researched and chillingly plausible scenario imagines what might happen should Putin defeat Ukraine and not stop there March 2028. Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After a victorious peace deal in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Ba...

Michael Mcfaul

"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." --Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc. "A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"--Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its Discontents The rise of China, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and th...

O'brien, Phillips Payson

A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social power--"vital reading for anyone grappling with America's uncertain place in today's global order" (Alexander Vindman, New York Times-bestselling author of The Folly of Realism) For nearly two...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,"* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1929 unravels the greed, blind optimism, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse—one with ripple effects that still s...

Dan Wang

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award An August 2025 Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book A riveting, firsthand investigation of China's seismic progress, its human costs, and what it means for America. For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang--"a gifted observer of contemporary China" (Ross Douthat)...

Temelkuran, Ece

Diez propuestas factibles para superar las crisis que amenazan la ecología, la economía y la democracia. Diez propuestas para el ahora. Diez propuestas que pretenden responder a varias crisis que urge abordar, no desde el utopismo, sino desde las posibilidades reales de cambiar el mundo hoy. Diez propuestas de un activismo de veras comprometido con la realidad.Vivimos bajo seri...

Temelkuran, Ece

Este libro arranca con aviones de combate sobrevolando Estambul, con bombas y disparos. Es el 15 de julio de 2016, y la autora contempla a través de la ventana el desarrollo del chapucero golpe de Estado que Erdogan sofocará en pocas horas, y que le proporcionará la excusa para activar un engranaje de detenciones y purgas. ¿Cómo llegó Turquía, que aspiraba a ser europea y mode...