2000-talets historia: från 2000

As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the worlds oldest and most civilized peoples, as older brothers to the younger Russian culture.Yet...

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Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all p...

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If human rights are considered the most essential quality of human existence, then this book represents a lifetime devoted to the fight for those rights Ai Weiwei In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch conducted ...

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*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature* A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a persons soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist D...

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The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessens understanding of ...

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'A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history' Barack Obama Timely, intimate and important, the long-awaited memoirs from one of the most influential leaders of our times For 16 years, Angela M...

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'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati Roy From one of the worlds most prominent thinkers comes a...

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From the bestselling author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever-changing music game. May be his best yetrecommended to anyone for whom pop music means ...

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A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present daypublished for the alliances seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATOs stated aim has been the achievement of world peacebut playing great power politics always involve...

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**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER - AVAILABLE NOW** WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020 A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Quietly frightening.' Guardian 'Essential reading.' Irish Time...

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**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks li...

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have...

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A fascinating and very moving (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the worldIsrael. I...

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From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's re...

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Volume 7 of War in Ukraine provides a detailed account of the air war as it developed during 2023, a period in which Russia made extensive use of Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers and their missiles to bring about the collapse of the power supply system in ...

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A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclus...

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A groundbreaking book that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other. The Wall Between is a book about the wall that exists between Jewish and Palestinian communities in the Diaspora. Distrust, ...

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Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The World: A Family History Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and ...

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THE HISTORIC , CRUCIAL REPORT - FINALLY REVEALED Reading like a taut political thriller , the Mueller Report is without a doubt the most pivotal document of recent times . This unique large-format , remastered , indexed edition - including 40+ pag...

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Picture-book beautiful, Amsterdam is one of the great cities of Europe and a feature on every travellers bucket list for its unique concentric canal system dating from the 17th century, its vibrant nightlife, fascinating museums, and cosmopolitan,...

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The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a ...

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**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024** To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is. 'Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand' TIMOTHY SNYDER 'A haunting book of rare courage' ...

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