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A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the s...

Discover what the musical mind has to teach us about innovation in this fascinating book, featuring interviews with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Wil...

Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom,...

Forget Type As and Bs. The future lies with Type Rs-the resilient individuals, leaders, businesses, families, and communities who turn challenges i...

A “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals When Russia invaded Ukraine in ...

Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. ...

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be d...

What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the hud...

George Soros has done more for open societies than any other private citizen in the world. In Underwriting Democracy he describes his experiences h...

The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the hal...

Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis . . . structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap...

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA Slate Best Book of 2011A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most ex...

Foreword by Randy E. Barnett In 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 5-4 de...

Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economi...

A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters. Let's f...

From the Prime Minister of Canada, a bold and urgent argument for the foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and societ...

There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, ...

As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man’s post-luncheon s...

When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But...

A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the confli...

New Hampshire-a small state with a small, distinct population-is nevertheless the beacon of American democracy. Since 1920, its residents have been...

In Waging Modern War, General Wesley K. Clark recounts his experience leading NATO's forces to a hard-fought and ultimately successful victory in K...

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval o...