Global Cris

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

Farmers are always willing to do their civic duty. Sometimes with a plow, sometimes with a gun... An election has been called on Phaethon, and all three systems of government are vying for the chance to claim the frontier planet. The Lutian Alliance holds an edge with Lisa, Tom Savage’s portable farm AI that has now grown to envelop the entire planet. Ever since the revelation of her existence, most people have taken one of her sensors, and she is doing her best to influence the vote. But the other sides are not standing still. SSI and the Southsiders along with Acting Mayor Xu are ...

Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American’s gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on...

Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice - backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence - to the millions of "deplorable" Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar "climate change" complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.

All nations, including the United States, face systemic crises that are reinforcing each other at an explosive point in history. The status quo is now the problem rather than the solution. These novel crises demand an entirely new grand strategy. The global crisis offers an opportunity to redraw America’s grand strategy from the ground up. Should we fail to make full use of this opportunity, the United States will fail, along with all the other nation-states that are incapable of redefining the problems so that new solutions become possible.

Bestselling author Howard Green profiles former Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh and sketches an unprecedented and up-close picture of what it is like to run a global bank, often during financial chaos, while leading more than 80,000 employees in more than fifty countries. From navigating a violent...

In 2015, world leaders came together in Paris and signed an agreement to save the planet. Ten years later, we have made little progress on the ground, and the climate crisis is worse than ever. We've mostly figured out what we need to do, but not how to get it done—and time is running out. In this groundbreaking new book, World Resources Institute President and CEO Ani Dasgupta explores how to orchestrate change at speed and scale.

In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. This program is read by the author. This program includes a foreword written and read by Michael Lewis...

When a mysterious new virus appeared in late 2019, few imagined the world would shut down within months. Streets fell silent. Hospitals overflowed. Borders closed. For the first time in living memory, nearly everyone on Earth faced the same invisible threat at once. The Year the World Locked Down tells the story of how it happened — and what it did to us. From overwhelmed hospitals in Bergamo and New York, to desperate families in Guayaquil and Delhi, to leaders making impossible choices in Beijing, London, Brasília, and Washington, this book follows the pandemic as it spread, mutated, ...

History will judge this generation by whether it rose to meet the challenge of Chinese cyber operations or allowed short-term interests and bureaucratic inertia to prevail. The choice is not between security and prosperity, between privacy and protection, or between openness and defense. The choice is between deliberate action and willful blindness. The threat is real, it is accelerating, and it demands a response equal to its magnitude. The United States and its allies possess the technological capability, economic resources, and human talent to prevail—but only if we choose to deploy ...

For 200 years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its 19th-century roots to today’s fractured political moment.

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world. In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia...

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics.

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of...

Leading Binnizá and Maya Ch'orti' scientist Jessica Hernandez, PhD, weaves together Indigenous knowledge, environmental science, and personal family stories in her highly anticipated follow-up to the LA Times best-seller Fresh Banana Leaves. Not every environmental problem is a result of...

Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the hemisphere and world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

HOMO ECONOMICUS™: The Rise of GMO Crops, Agricultural Herbicides, and Chronic Disease By Benoit Tano, MD PhD 🌍 The Most Important Book on Human Health, Agriculture, and Global Disease You Will Read This Decade What if the chronic diseases devastating the modern world were not random? What if obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, hormonal imbalances, food allergies, depression, infertility, and immune dysfunction were not mysteries, but the predictable outcomes of a global agricultural and economic system engineered around profit rather than human biology? In Homo Economicus™, ...

An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography “Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s...

New York Times Bestseller Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book...