How to Lose a Country - The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it's too late. 'It couldn't happen he ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
4.90 USD
15.39 (68% off)
Category: History & Politics | Reading Level: very good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
4.90 USD
15.39 (68% off)
Category: History & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Women of the Somali Diaspora - Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding after Conflict by Joanna Lewis
14.18 USD
42.02 (66% off)
Category: History & Politics
This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never left Somalia before, followed nomadic traditions, did not speak English, were bereaved and were suffering from PTSD.Their stories begin with war and genocide in the north, followed by har ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
7.96 USD
18.19 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
14.88 USD
35.01 (57% off)
Category: History & Politics
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
6.13 USD
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Category: History & Politics
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred re ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
6.74 USD
22.00 (69% off)
Category: History & Politics | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
11.54 USD
15.39 (25% off)
Category: History & Politics
Before he was president, he was senator. Written two years prior to the election that would change the face of the United States, The Audacity of Hope discusses the importance of empathy in politics, Obama's hopes for a different America and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed. With intimacy ...Show more
The Nile: History's Greatest River by Terje Tvedt
17.34 USD
42.02 (58% off)
Category: History & Politics
The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Ce ...Show more
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and bestselling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can make things bett ...Show more