This book investigates the consequences of maritime strategy for the developing nature, composition and functions of all the world's significant navies, and provides a guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the 21st century.

Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory-and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Weste...

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...

Mei 1940. Nog voor het Nederlandse leger zich overgeeft aan de Duitsers, stappen alle ministers op een torpedobootjager richting Engeland. Op de valreep overhandigen ze de sleutels van het land aan de hoogste ambtenaren van de tien departementen: de secretarissen-generaal. ‘Pas goed op het land en als het te gortig wordt moet je aftreden,’ luidt hun laatste instructie.

Wat doen de tien topambtenaren vervolgens? Hoe reageren ze op de eerste fases van de Jodenvervolging, op het inpe...