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The End of Reality

von Jonathan Taplin • 2023

Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?

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Immersiv

The End of Reality

Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?

von Jonathan Taplin 2023 336 Seiten

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Die Achse der Autokraten

von Anne Applebaum • 2024

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

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Die Achse der Autokraten

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

von Anne Applebaum 2024 224 Seiten

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The Winner-Take-All Society

von Robert H. Frank • 1995

Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.

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The Winner-Take-All Society

Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.

von Robert H. Frank 1995 288 Seiten

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The Post-American World

von Fareed Zakaria • 2008

American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.

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The Post-American World

American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.

von Fareed Zakaria 2008 336 Seiten

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The Great Taking

von David Rogers Webb • 2023

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

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The Great Taking

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

von David Rogers Webb 2023 133 Seiten

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

von Paul Craig Roberts • 2000

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

von Paul Craig Roberts 2000 186 Seiten

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Waste Land

von Robert D. Kaplan • 2025

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

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International

Waste Land

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

von Robert D. Kaplan 2025 224 Seiten

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Crisis Economics

von Nouriel Roubini • 2010

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

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Crisis Economics

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

von Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 Seiten

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The Dying Citizen

von Victor Davis Hanson • 2021

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

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The Dying Citizen

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

von Victor Davis Hanson 2021 448 Seiten

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How to Stop Fascism

von Paul Mason • 2021

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

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How to Stop Fascism

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

von Paul Mason 2021 320 Seiten

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How Tyrants Fall

von Marcel Dirsus • 2024

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

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Krieg

How Tyrants Fall

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

von Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 Seiten

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Krieg

The Assault on Truth

von Peter Oborne • 2021

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

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The Assault on Truth

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

von Peter Oborne 2021 251 Seiten

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National Populism

von Roger Eatwell • 2018

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

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National Populism

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

von Roger Eatwell 2018 374 Seiten

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Shattered Nation

von Danny Dorling • 2023

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

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Shattered Nation

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

von Danny Dorling 2023 288 Seiten

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The Invention of Russia

von Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

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The Invention of Russia

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

von Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 Seiten

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Heroic Failure

von Fintan O'Toole • 2018

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

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Heroic Failure

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

von Fintan O'Toole 2018 240 Seiten

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Wildland

von Evan Osnos • 2021

Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.

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Wildland

Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.

von Evan Osnos 2021 465 Seiten

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Winter Is Coming

von Garry Kasparov • 2015

Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.

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Winter Is Coming

Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.

von Garry Kasparov 2015 290 Seiten

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Eastward to Tartary

von Robert D. Kaplan • 2001

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

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Eastward to Tartary

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

von Robert D. Kaplan 2001 385 Seiten

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House of Trump, House of Putin

von Craig Unger • 2018

Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.

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House of Trump, House of Putin

Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.

von Craig Unger 2018 382 Seiten

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Russland

Un-Trumping America

von Dan Pfeiffer • 2020

The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.

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Un-Trumping America

The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.

von Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 Seiten

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The Fall of the House of Bush

von Craig Unger • 2007

An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.

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The Fall of the House of Bush

An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.

von Craig Unger 2007 448 Seiten

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How Britain Ends

von Gavin Esler • 2021

Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.

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How Britain Ends

Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.

von Gavin Esler 2021 320 Seiten

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The Silenced Majority

von Amy Goodman • 2012

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

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The Silenced Majority

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

von Amy Goodman 2012 380 Seiten

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When the Money Runs Out

von Stephen D. King • 2013

Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.

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When the Money Runs Out

Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.

von Stephen D. King 2013 304 Seiten

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Reckless Endangerment

von Gretchen Morgenson • 2011

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

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Reckless Endangerment

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

von Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 Seiten

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Business

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The Growth Map

von Jim O'Neill • 2011

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

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Business

Finanzen

The Growth Map

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

von Jim O'Neill 2011 256 Seiten

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Business

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Moveable Feasts

von Sarah Murray • 2007

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

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Moveable Feasts

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

von Sarah Murray 2007 272 Seiten

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Business

Facts and Other Lies

von Ed Coper • 2022

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

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Facts and Other Lies

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

von Ed Coper 2022 394 Seiten

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Giving Up Is Unforgivable

von Joyce Vance • 2025

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

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Giving Up Is Unforgivable

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

von Joyce Vance 2025 208 Seiten

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Rebellion

von Robert Kagan • 2024

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

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Ethnie

Rebellion

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

von Robert Kagan 2024 258 Seiten

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Londonistan

von Melanie Phillips • 2006

Islamist terror's nerve center was London, built with British law and left-wing alliances.

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Islam

Religion

Londonistan

Islamist terror's nerve center was London, built with British law and left-wing alliances.

von Melanie Phillips 2006 200 Seiten

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Religion

A Necessary Evil

von Garry Wills • 1999

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

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America

A Necessary Evil

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

von Garry Wills 1999 368 Seiten

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America

Winner-Take-All Politics

von Jacob S. Hacker • 2010

The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.

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Winner-Take-All Politics

The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.

von Jacob S. Hacker 2010 368 Seiten

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Laboratories of Autocracy

von David Pepper • 2021

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

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Laboratories of Autocracy

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

von David Pepper 2021 452 Seiten

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Iran's Grand Strategy

von Vali Nasr • 2025

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

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Iran

Iran's Grand Strategy

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

von Vali Nasr 2025 408 Seiten

4.21

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Iran

Ill Winds

von Larry Diamond • 2019

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

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Geschichte

China

Ill Winds

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

von Larry Diamond 2019 368 Seiten

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China

The Destructionists

von Dana Milbank • 2022

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

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The Destructionists

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

von Dana Milbank 2022 416 Seiten

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Beyond Outrage

von Robert B. Reich • 2012

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

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Beyond Outrage

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

von Robert B. Reich 2012 72 Seiten

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Dangerous Charisma

von Jerrold M. Post • 2019

A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.

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Dangerous Charisma

A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.

von Jerrold M. Post 2019 352 Seiten

3.56

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The New Rulers of the World

von John Pilger • 2002

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

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The New Rulers of the World

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

von John Pilger 2002 192 Seiten

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