There is a history of humanity that has never been told - the story of how we are born.

*The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix!*

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America.

Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in le...

The beginning story of the communism was like this:

A ghost walks in Europe - the ghost of communism. All the forces of old Europe entered into a sacred alliance to defeat this ghost: the Pope and the Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police agents.

Where is the opposition party not being accused of being communist by its opponents? Where is the opposition, which has not thrown this blightful communism accusation back to its reactionary adversaries as well as to the more...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, die vaak 'de vader van de atoombom' wordt genoemd, heeft ons een grimmige erfenis nagelaten. De nucleaire vooruitgang die hij hielp creëren werd cruciaal in de 20e eeuw en hielp de moderne oorlogvoering te transformeren. Hij was een briljante maar controversiëel natuurkundige; later in zijn leven werd hij gezien als een vijand van de Amerikaanse regering vanwege zijn vermeende communistische sympathieën. Het leidde tot zijn gedwongen ontslag als nucleair adviseur van...

The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet there is no comprehensive history of the tournament: based on fresh interviews and meticulously researched this book will change that.

By 1930, football had outgrown the Olympic Games. A new competition, run by Fifa, would take international football to the next level. After a shambolic...