„No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos“ von Charles Ferguson ist eine umfassende Analyse der Ereignisse und Entscheidungen, die zum Irakkrieg führten und dessen Folgen. Das Buch untersucht die politischen, militärischen und...

"We in the West routinely ask: 'What does China want?' The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost. In this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating characters, epic battles, influential...

After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends...

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic miracle&rdquo was built on good old-fashioned subsidies...

This book tells the story of the clash of Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over Herbalife, a nutritional supplement company whose business model Ackman questioned. Icahn decided to vouch for them, and the dispute became a years-long feud,...

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye...

In "OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder", untersucht Lucas Conley die moderne Geschäftswelt und ihre Besessenheit von Markenbildung. Conley argumentiert, dass Unternehmen zunehmend auf das Image ihrer Marke fokussieren, anstatt auf die...

"Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds" von Eleanor Gordon-Smith ist ein faszinierendes Buch, das die Prozesse untersucht, durch die Menschen ihre Überzeugungen und Meinungen ändern. Es stellt die traditionelle...

In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his...

"High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV" von Keith Bradsher ist eine eingehende Untersuchung der steigenden Beliebtheit und des zunehmenden Verkaufs von Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in den USA. Bradsher argumentiert, dass SUVs...

The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away...

"The Politics of Truth" von Joseph Wilson ist ein politisches Memoir, das die Kontroverse um die Enttarnung seiner Frau Valerie Plame als CIA-Agentin und die Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen das Weiße Haus während der Bush-Administration...