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Bloomsbury presents Big Data: Does Size Matter?, written and read by Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim...

Across occupied Europe, there existed a hidden world of false papers, whispered passwords, midnight train journeys, secret apartments, mountain guides, and ordinary civilians risking everything to help strangers escape the Nazi system. This is the story of the Comet Line. Across the Silent Frontier reveals one of the most extraordinary civilian rescue operations of the Second World War—the escape network that guided downed Allied airmen from occupied Belgium through France, across the Pyrenees, and into Spain using nothing but courage, secrecy, endurance, and trust.

In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited a debate about private citizens who reveal government secrets that should be exposed but may endanger the lives of others.

La segunda oración de la Declaración de Independencia de Estados Unidos, escrita por Thomas Jefferson y revisada por Benjamin Franklin y John Adams, se convirtió en un credo que unió a peregrinos e inmigrantes en una sola nación. Para personas de tan diferentes orígenes y creencias, la frase resultó la definición última del bien común y del Sueño Americano.

'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news...

The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's exposé of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady "private buyers."

As Pan American World Airways teetered on bankruptcy, could the shah of Iran provide the capital to restore it to solvency? Or would his financial bailout endanger the lives of Pan Am’s executives because a religious revolution is brewing? The Plum Thief is the turbulent story of activists who forged a new government in the 1970s by battling Western businessmen in their efforts to topple the shah of Iran.

From an award-winning journalist that Bob Woodward calls "one of the truly great reporters working today" comes the searing inside account of a legal team’s effort to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, the nineteen-year-old mass murderer. On Valentine’s Day 2018, Nikolas Cruz opened fire on his...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax Introduction to Political Science audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Political Science provides a strong foundation...

The larger-than-life exploits of Walter Patrick Lang—the Green Beret at the center of America’s covert conflicts from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Army Colonel Walter Patrick Lang led the life that many men would love to live. He faced firefights on three continents and led a band of...

If you're not writing the truth about crimes against humanity, you're culpable in them. Human rights activist and Middle East scholar Assal Rad is known online as the 'headline fixer' - with a special focus on exposing double standards in Western media, especially about Palestine. Israelis are...

From award-winning, starred-review author Heather B. Moore comes a powerful portrait of eight American women whose courage and conviction smashed stereotypes and built a nation. Her America recognizes eight remarkable women who refused to wait for permission to prove a woman’s worth in society...

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who, after being appointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), became the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935, where he remained until his death in May 1972—serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight presidents.

One of the most powerful defenses of conscience, courage, and moral conviction ever written. In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau delivers a passionate and uncompromising response to one of the most controversial events in American history. Written after John Brown's raid on...

Dr. Montgomery, in two lectures, looks at select legal issues raised in recent books and movies, analyzing and critiquing the efforts by Marxists and legal positivists to establish credible bases for human rights.

The spectacular rise and dramatic fall of super-assassin Carlos the Jackal-one of history's most infamous terrorist masterminds and the inspiration for numerous celebrated works of pop culture-told with new revelations from the Jackal himself, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags...

A powerful chronicle of the last year of Malcolm X’s life, and what we can learn today from the legendary activist as he envisioned and built a world-changing coalition in his final days—from the award-winning author of Freedom Season and The Sword and the Shield The last year of Malcolm X's...

A clear-eyed, haunting story of an ordinary woman struggling to survive captivity, and its aftermath, in the volatile world of 1970s Argentina “Infused with the intensity of a thriller and with such poetic force, The Call is a masterclass. A hundred years from now, we’ll still be talking...

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are...