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The End of Reality

av Jonathan Taplin • 2023

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

3.92

500+

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Teknologi

Business

Oppslukende

The End of Reality

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

av Jonathan Taplin 2023 336 sider

3.92

500+ vurderinger

Politikk

Teknologi

Business

Autocracy, Inc.

av Anne Applebaum • 2024

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

4.16

18 000+

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

Autocracy, Inc.

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

av Anne Applebaum 2024 224 sider

4.16

18 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

The Winner-Take-All Society

av Robert H. Frank • 1995

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

3.70

257

Økonomi

Sosiologi

Business

The Winner-Take-All Society

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

av Robert H. Frank 1995 288 sider

3.70

257 vurderinger

Økonomi

Sosiologi

Business

The Post-American World

av Fareed Zakaria • 2008

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

3.86

12 000+

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

The Post-American World

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

av Fareed Zakaria 2008 336 sider

3.86

12 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

The Great Taking

av David Rogers Webb • 2023

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

4.13

157

Økonomi

Finans

Penger

The Great Taking

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

av David Rogers Webb 2023 133 sider

4.13

157 vurderinger

Økonomi

Finans

Penger

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

av Paul Craig Roberts • 2000

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

4.06

127

Politikk

Juss

Historie

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

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

av Paul Craig Roberts 2000 186 sider

4.06

127 vurderinger

Politikk

Juss

Historie

Waste Land

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2025

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

3.60

500+

Historie

Politikk

International

Waste Land

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

av Robert D. Kaplan 2025 224 sider

3.60

500+ vurderinger

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International

Crisis Economics

av Nouriel Roubini • 2010

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

3.84

2 000+

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Finans

Business

Crisis Economics

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

av Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 sider

3.84

2 000+ vurderinger

Økonomi

Finans

Business

The Dying Citizen

av Victor Davis Hanson • 2021

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

4.35

1 000+

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Amerikansk

The Dying Citizen

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

av Victor Davis Hanson 2021 448 sider

4.35

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

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Amerikansk

How to Stop Fascism

av Paul Mason • 2021

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

4.05

390

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

How to Stop Fascism

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

av Paul Mason 2021 320 sider

4.05

390 vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

How Tyrants Fall

av Marcel Dirsus • 2024

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

3.92

500+

Politikk

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Krig

How Tyrants Fall

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

av Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 sider

3.92

500+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Krig

The Assault on Truth

av Peter Oborne • 2021

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

3.98

1 000+

Politikk

Historie

Democracy

The Assault on Truth

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

av Peter Oborne 2021 251 sider

3.98

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

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Democracy

National Populism

av Roger Eatwell • 2018

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

3.80

1 000+

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

National Populism

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

av Roger Eatwell 2018 374 sider

3.80

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

Shattered Nation

av Danny Dorling • 2023

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

3.97

119

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Sosiologi

Økonomi

Shattered Nation

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

av Danny Dorling 2023 288 sider

3.97

119 vurderinger

Politikk

Sosiologi

Økonomi

The Invention of Russia

av Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

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

4.01

1 000+

Historie

Russland

Politikk

The Invention of Russia

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

av Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 sider

4.01

1 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Russland

Politikk

Heroic Failure

av Fintan O'Toole • 2018

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

4.11

2 000+

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

Heroic Failure

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

av Fintan O'Toole 2018 240 sider

4.11

2 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Sosiologi

Wildland

av Evan Osnos • 2021

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

4.22

2 000+

Business

Finans

Penger

Wildland

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

av Evan Osnos 2021 465 sider

4.22

2 000+ vurderinger

Business

Finans

Penger

Winter Is Coming

av Garry Kasparov • 2015

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

4.04

3 000+

Politikk

Russland

Historie

Winter Is Coming

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

av Garry Kasparov 2015 290 sider

4.04

3 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Russland

Historie

Eastward to Tartary

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2001

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

4.05

1 000+

Reise

Historie

Politikk

Eastward to Tartary

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

av Robert D. Kaplan 2001 385 sider

4.05

1 000+ vurderinger

Reise

Historie

Politikk

House of Trump, House of Putin

av Craig Unger • 2018

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

4.02

1 000+

Politikk

Historie

Russland

House of Trump, House of Putin

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

av Craig Unger 2018 382 sider

4.02

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Russland

Un-Trumping America

av Dan Pfeiffer • 2020

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

4.20

2 000+

Politikk

Historie

Amerikansk

Un-Trumping America

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

av Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 sider

4.20

2 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Amerikansk

The Fall of the House of Bush

av Craig Unger • 2007

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

204

Politikk

Historie

Biografi

The Fall of the House of Bush

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

av Craig Unger 2007 448 sider

204 vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Biografi

How Britain Ends

av Gavin Esler • 2021

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

4.09

500+

Politikk

Historie

How Britain Ends

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

av Gavin Esler 2021 320 sider

4.09

500+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

The Silenced Majority

av Amy Goodman • 2012

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

4.06

251

Politikk

Journalistikk

Aktivisme

The Silenced Majority

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

av Amy Goodman 2012 380 sider

4.06

251 vurderinger

Politikk

Journalistikk

Aktivisme

When the Money Runs Out

av Stephen D. King • 2013

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

3.63

206

Økonomi

Finans

Politikk

When the Money Runs Out

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

av Stephen D. King 2013 304 sider

3.63

206 vurderinger

Økonomi

Finans

Politikk

Reckless Endangerment

av Gretchen Morgenson • 2011

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

3.96

1 000+

Økonomi

Business

Finans

Reckless Endangerment

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

av Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 sider

3.96

1 000+ vurderinger

Økonomi

Business

Finans

The Growth Map

av Jim O'Neill • 2011

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

3.59

288

Økonomi

Business

Finans

The Growth Map

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

av Jim O'Neill 2011 256 sider

3.59

288 vurderinger

Økonomi

Business

Finans

Moveable Feasts

av Sarah Murray • 2007

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

3.55

205

Mat

Historie

Business

Moveable Feasts

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

av Sarah Murray 2007 272 sider

3.55

205 vurderinger

Mat

Historie

Business

Facts and Other Lies

av Ed Coper • 2022

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

4.16

242

Politikk

Sosiologi

Psykologi

Facts and Other Lies

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

av Ed Coper 2022 394 sider

4.16

242 vurderinger

Politikk

Sosiologi

Psykologi

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

av Joyce Vance • 2025

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

4.28

1 000+

Politikk

Historie

Myndigheter

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

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

av Joyce Vance 2025 208 sider

4.28

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Myndigheter

Rebellion

av Robert Kagan • 2024

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

4.39

500+

Politikk

Historie

Rase

Rebellion

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

av Robert Kagan 2024 258 sider

4.39

500+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Rase

Londonistan

av Melanie Phillips • 2006

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

3.60

500+

Politikk

Islam

Religion

Londonistan

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

av Melanie Phillips 2006 200 sider

3.60

500+ vurderinger

Politikk

Islam

Religion

A Necessary Evil

av Garry Wills • 1999

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

3.78

196

Historie

Politikk

America

A Necessary Evil

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

av Garry Wills 1999 368 sider

3.78

196 vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

America

Winner-Take-All Politics

av Jacob S. Hacker • 2010

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

4.04

2 000+

Politikk

Økonomi

Historie

Winner-Take-All Politics

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

av Jacob S. Hacker 2010 368 sider

4.04

2 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Økonomi

Historie

Laboratories of Autocracy

av David Pepper • 2021

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

4.48

338

Politikk

Historie

Amerikansk

Laboratories of Autocracy

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

av David Pepper 2021 452 sider

4.48

338 vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Amerikansk

Iran's Grand Strategy

av Vali Nasr • 2025

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

4.21

500+

Historie

Politikk

Iran

Iran's Grand Strategy

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

av Vali Nasr 2025 408 sider

4.21

500+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Iran

Ill Winds

av Larry Diamond • 2019

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

3.99

274

Politikk

Historie

Kina

Ill Winds

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

av Larry Diamond 2019 368 sider

3.99

274 vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Kina

The Destructionists

av Dana Milbank • 2022

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

4.21

1 000+

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Historie

Journalistikk

The Destructionists

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

av Dana Milbank 2022 416 sider

4.21

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Journalistikk

Beyond Outrage

av Robert B. Reich • 2012

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

4.06

2 000+

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Økonomi

Sosial rettferdighet

Beyond Outrage

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

av Robert B. Reich 2012 72 sider

4.06

2 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Økonomi

Sosial rettferdighet

Dangerous Charisma

av Jerrold M. Post • 2019

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

3.56

186

Psykologi

Politikk

Biografi

Dangerous Charisma

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

av Jerrold M. Post 2019 352 sider

3.56

186 vurderinger

Psykologi

Politikk

Biografi

The New Rulers of the World

av John Pilger • 2002

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

4.14

1 000+

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

The New Rulers of the World

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

av John Pilger 2002 192 sider

4.14

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Historie

Økonomi

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