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World Order
2024 || Paperback || Henry Kissinger || Penguin
"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter Isaacson, Time
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to...
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Into the Clear Blue Sky
The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere
2024 || Hardcover || Rob Jackson || Penguin
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On the Road
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2024 || Paperback || Jack Kerouac || Penguin
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
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Unruly (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || David Mitchell || Penguin
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp.
Mitchell – a funny man and skilled historian – tells stories that are interesting and fun. Here is Horrible Histories for grownups’ GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES 'Just fantastic. Delightfully contrary and hilariously cantankerous.
Very, very funny’ JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SUCCESSIO...
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Regarding the Pain of Others
2024 || Paperback || Susan Sontag || Penguin
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
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Animals, Robots, Gods
Adventures in the Moral Imagination
2024 || Hardcover || Webb Keane || Penguin
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The Death of Money
The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
2024 || Paperback || James Rickards || Penguin
The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years. Each collapse was followed by a period of war, civil unrest, or damage to the stability of the global economy. The author explains why another collapse is rapidly approaching. It explores the future of the international monetary system.
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The House of Dudley
A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022
2024 || Paperback || Dr Joanne Paul || Penguin
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Frank Trentmann || Penguin
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital que...