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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood & Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here
The Story of America: Essays on Origins In 'The Story of America', Harvard historian and 'New Yorker' staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.
The Art of War Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life.
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs Throughout, Chomsky reveals the United States's increasingly open dismissal of United Nations resolutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and international legal precedent in justifying its motives and actions. As his analysis of US statecraft and warmongering amply reveals, the rule of law has been reduced to a mere nuisance in the United States's brazen bid for the title of rogue state.
The politics of vaccination: A global history Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime.

Categories → #politics

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.