The History Of Ideas

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)...

David Runciman

An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations?"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power?to predict how AI will remake society. Much has been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but according to political philosopher David Runciman, we've been living with AI for 300 years?because states and corporations are robots, ...

David Runciman

Starting with Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in 1651, David Runciman examines how twelve political philosophers explain the relationship between citizens and those who rule them. From Wollstonecraft to MacKinnon and Marx to Fukuyama, Runciman reveals how Leviathan underpins seismic events such as the American Revolution, radical movements like second-wave feminism and seminal texts i...

David Runciman

Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to look after their own affairs again. However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date. Until very recently, most citizens of Western democracies would have imagined that the end wa...

David Runciman

Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... Runciman's flair for turning a pithy and pungent phrase is one of the things to admire about his writing. The cogency, subtlety and style with which he teases out the paradoxes and perils faced by democracy makes this one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' - ObserverDemocracy has died hundreds of times, al...