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Los cárteles no existen no es un libro sobre traficantes, sino sobre el poder, el lenguaje y la violencia que se ejerce en nombre de nuestra seguridad. Un ensayo imprescindible para comprender por qué seguimos hablando de los «cárteles» y qué se oculta detrás de esa palabra.

What is intelligence-led policing? Who came up with the idea? Where did it come from? How does it relate to other policing paradigms? What distinguishes an intelligence-led approach to crime reduction? How is it designed to have an impact on crime? Does it prevent crime? These are just a few of...

In Der Frauen Natur und Recht (1876) widerlegt Hedwig Dohm, Vordenkerin der frühen Frauenbewegung, die angeblich naturgegebenen Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern – scharfsinnig, humorvoll und mutig. Mit beeindruckender Klarheit analysiert sie psychologische, gesellschaftliche und politische Argumente gegen die Gleichberechtigung – und entlarvt deren ideologische Grundlagen. Ein prägender Text der feministischen Literaturgeschichte. Ein kraftvoller Appell für Gleichberechtigung – unbequem, scharfsinnig und erstaunlich zeitgemäß.

Lions in the Shadows: The Rise and Legacy of South Africa’s Special Forces from Apartheid to Peacekeeping is a powerful journey through five decades of courage, secrecy, and transformation. From the bitter bush wars of the 1970s to modern peacekeeping missions across Africa, it tells the untold story of the men who operated beyond the headlines—the Recces, the Maritime Reaction Squadron, and the Special Task Force.

In the updated edition of this “tour de force” (National Review), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump’s “America First” politics to...

How do you stay upright when the very system you swore to uphold begins to shake beneath your feet? In Tightrope, retired Deputy Chief Constable Jennifer Hyland offers a rare and unflinching look behind the badge. Through raw honesty and hard-won wisdom, she charts her twenty-six-year journey through Canadian policing—rising from a young recruit to one of the highest-ranking women in the profession—all while walking the fragile line between duty and despair, strength and vulnerability, silence and truth. But this is more than a story about crime scenes and crisis calls.

In November 1983, the Cold War reached one of its most dangerous and least remembered turning points. Able Archer 83 was not a battle, not an invasion, and not a declared crisis. It was a NATO command-post exercise, a controlled rehearsal designed to test communications, procedures, and decision-making in the event of war. Yet behind the closed doors of bunkers and command centres, it unfolded in a climate so tense, so brittle, and so saturated with fear that the Soviet Union reportedly interpreted elements of the exercise as preparation for a real nuclear first strike.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is the leader of Venezuela’s democratic movement and a key advocate for freedom in Latin America. Having won the opposition primaries in 2023 with an overwhelming 92 percent of the vote, she was arbitrarily disqualified by the Nicolás Maduro regime from participating in the 2024 presidential elections. Machado proceeded to unite the country around the call for dignity and freedom, leading the national campaign for Edmundo González that finally obtained 67 percent of the vote.

What happens when one of the most influential men in American history sets his sights on the picture-perfect town of Palm Beach, Florida? Life-changing events ensue. It all began with Donald Trump's purchase of Mar-a-Lago in the 1980s. A series of shocking events would follow, ultimately transforming Palm Beach forever. Experience these incidents firsthand through the eyes of Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina, an Italian-American commissioner who has crossed paths with Donald Trump multiple times and has come to know the man behind the controversies.

Port Talbot, 1958. A town of smoke and steel, sea air and shift work, terraced streets and quiet watchfulness. It is the kind of place where people do not simply live alongside one another, they notice one another. They notice who is tired, who is drinking more than usual, who has started keeping strange hours, and who is carrying the kind of tension that does not belong to ordinary life. In a town like this, privacy is never absolute. The streets are close, the routines are known, and the town itself behaves like a witness—silent, patient, and rarely fooled for long.

¿Cómo suenan los derechos fundamentales cuando es un niño quien los reclama? Esta edición especial de la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño de 1959 cobra vida en la voz de una niña de 9 años, recordándonos que la protección, la salud y la educación no son solo leyes, sino promesas de futuro.

In 1954, a small Central American nation became the testing ground for a new kind of power. Guatemala was not invaded by armies in the traditional sense. There was no formal declaration of war, no clear front line, no obvious foreign takeover. Instead, a democratically elected government was dismantled through pressure, propaganda, proxies, and fear. The operation had a name that sounded clinical and harmless. Its effects were anything but. Operation PBSUCCESS reveals how a country can be brought to its knees without tanks rolling down the capital’s streets.

Spycraft for Self-Defense: Shadow Routes is built for the quiet reality intelligence officers live with, the knowledge that surveillance rarely looks like a threat, it looks like routine. The same turns, the same exits, the same parking spot, the same “safe” shortcut through the day, until a watcher doesn’t need to chase you, they just need to wait where you always appear. That’s how sources get burned, not by gunfire, by predictability.

The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin’s Russia for more than a year – a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country in the midst of autocracy In March 2023, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Evan...

The inspiring memoir of Evie Rich, a fearless African-American activist whose lifelong fight for justice, equality, and workers’ rights shaped pivotal moments in American civil rights history.

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists...

In high-stakes domains like frontline professions, we have to be intensely driven about what we do. Yet, sometimes, the demands and our passion burn so brightly that it leaves us feeling drained, agitated, and distracted.

This engaging work by legal scholar Arnold Rochvarg presents a narrative history of the mid-1960s civil rights movement centered around the experiences of a white woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who quit college to join the movement and became involved with many of the important events and persons of the day.

In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect.

In Hands Off My Food!, Dr. Sina McCullough exposes the hidden forces manipulating what ends up on your plate—from unelected bureaucrats making top-down decisions about your food, to multinational biotech corporations pushing untested technologies into the food supply, to regulatory frameworks that prioritize industry profits over public health. With clarity, urgency, and meticulously sourced research, this book reveals how the basic right to choose what we eat is being undermined—often without our knowledge or consent.

Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. Since the 1990s, the aid sector has ballooned in size and is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. In this book, historian Julia F. Irwin traces the events and trends that defined modern humanitarianism, from the eighteenth century up to the present day.

In April 1975, the Vietnam War ended not with a treaty or a victory parade, but with helicopters lifting from a collapsing city. Operation Frequent Wind was the final evacuation of Saigon, carried out as South Vietnam disintegrated and the last American personnel prepared to leave a war that had exhausted political will, trust, and time. In Operation Frequent Wind, Miles Dunsford delivers a clear, human account of those final days. Moving from Washington’s political paralysis to the pressure inside the U.S.

Operation Gold is one of the most extraordinary—and least believed—Cold War operations ever attempted: a secret tunnel dug beneath divided Berlin so Britain and America could listen directly to Soviet communications. It sounds like the plot of a spy thriller, yet it happened in real life, in a city where every street corner had eyes, every building had informants, and every shadow seemed to belong to someone else. This book takes you into that world, where engineering became espionage, and where the ground itself became a battleground.

In Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It, leading heterodox thinkers tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: how to keep open inquiry and constructive disagreement alive amid rising conformity on both left and right. Spanning essays on higher education, politics, culture, and the arts, this bold collection offers both sharp diagnosis and practical solutions for cultivating genuine pluralism.

When Randy Liberty was seven years old, he traveled to the Maine State Prison to visit his incarcerated father. Forty years later, he returned to the prison as its Warden. A trailblazer in the field of corrections, Randy introduced innovative programs and dramatically reduced the use of restrictive housing during his tenure as warden. In 2019, Randy was appointed commissioner of corrections, implementing an operating philosophy known as the Maine Model of Corrections.

From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff, America in 25 Revolutions follows America’s 250-year quest to fulfill the founders’ promise of a nation where all are created equal, introducing us to the ordinary champions who moved progress forward. When Thomas Jefferson penned...

El escritor Julio Valdeón, que vivía en Nueva York en los años en que el movimiento woke empezó su imparable recorrido, analiza su historia y las persecuciones más implacables de los últimos años, en un intento de dar voz a los silenciados y calumniados. Hoy en día la polarización ha alcanzado cotas inusitadas. La sociedad se divide entre amigos y enemigos.

En torno al 1 de octubre de 2017, Barcelona se convirtió en un nido de espías, de desinformación y de traición. Carles Puigdemont en persona y varios socios se vieron con emisarios rusos que les ofrecieron dinero y miles de soldados para llevar la declaración de independencia a sus últimas consecuencias. A cambio, querían que una Cataluña independiente fuera un paraíso mundial de las criptomonedas.

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly...

In this book, Dr. Boyce Watkins breaks down how black power can thrive in a capitalist society. In his standard down-to-earth style, Dr. Watkins explains how capitalism works in America and why money stands in the way of true racial equality. This is a must-listen for those seeking to understand the next generation in the pursuit of Civil Rights.