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Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America's favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on zero-sum, decisive victory in these conflicts is a key reason why these operations failed to achieve favorable and durable outcomes.

In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the...

America feels divided beyond repair. Families stop talking, friends walk on eggshells, politics has become tribal, angry, and hopeless. But what if the story we’ve been told about our national divide is wrong?

What if Thomas Paine could weigh in on today’s headlines? Thomas Paine Returns with Common Sense shows how the wisdom of America’s founders speaks directly to the crises of modern life. Consider today's headlines: Fentanyl takes thousands of young American livesThe U.S.

Why do some people get exactly what they want, while you do everything right and still end up overlooked, outmanoeuvred, and left behind? It was never luck. It was never talent. Beneath every room you walk into runs a hidden game of power, and most people never even see the board. They are influenced, manipulated, and held back by forces they cannot name, then blame themselves for losing a game nobody ever taught them to play. Power Decoded ends that.

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning returns with an urgent survival guide to help us prepare for the national emergencies the next ten to fifteen years will bring. What will you do when the AI bubble pops? If the power grid goes down across the country? If America...

In a free society, power must exist, but it must also be restrained. As institutions grow more complex, understanding how authority operates becomes increasingly important. In Our Next 250 Years: Power and Control, Charles Patton examines how modern systems translate power into control. Beyond elections and formal institutions, authority now operates through technology platforms, financial systems, administrative agencies, and regulatory structures that shape decisions and influence outcomes.

Dr. Christopher Garrow traces America’s moral story from its founding assumptions to its present secular crisis. He argues that the Christian ethic embedded in America’s founding documents helped create the moral framework that later fueled abolition, religious liberty, women’s suffrage, care for the poor, protection of the family, and the defense of human dignity. But as the nation abandoned Christianity for secularism, naturalism, and moral relativism, its laws and institutions began to reflect a different gospel.

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she...

A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming...

"Athletes first" is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as preeminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes are increasingly voicing concerns over physical, mental and sexual abuse, and they are collectively expressing grievances around equity and human rights.

Brought to you by Penguin. We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most...

Right of Return tells the poignant story of Hassan, a Palestinian boy who grows up hearing the stories of his grandfather`s lost homeland. Through vivid recollections, we see how Hassan`s early years in the West Bank are shaped by war, occupation, and political upheaval. The book chronicles key moments in Palestinian history, such as the impact of the Balfour Declaration, the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day War of 1967, and the Palestinian resistance movement.

Our Next 250 Years: Representation and Influence by Charles Patton is a broad non-partisan examination of American democracy centered on a simple question: Do political structures created in the eighteenth century still provide meaningful influence for ordinary citizens in a nation of more than 300 million people? Patton explores representation, lobbying, campaign finance, constitutional history, rights, privacy, political parties, media influence, the courts, and concentrated wealth.

Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from America to France. Here historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of modern republics in...

In the tradition of The Lonely Crowd, an ambitious sociological, psychological, philosophical, and economic analysis of the rise since the 1960s of a new American elite whose narcissism and moral corruption threaten to destroy the fabric of the nation.

The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War II's bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and mounting casualties slowed the US advance toward Japan. The terrible death toll of doctors, medics...

Este breve y olvidado ensayo de George Orwell, ofrecido aquí en la traducción y lectura de Valerio Di Stefano, fue publicado por primera vez en inglés en el New English Weekly, el 21 de marzo de 1940 y sigue teniendo, en nuestros días, toda su escalofriante actualidad de análisis crítica.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What power can hold humanity together when fear, ambition, and violence threaten to tear it apart? In *Leviathan*, Thomas Hobbes builds one of the most formidable visions in political philosophy: a world where human beings, left without authority, fall...

War is not an aberration of civilization. It is civilization's shadow—cast in every direction, at every hour, by the very light that humanity imagines will guide it to peace.