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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,202 ratings — published 2012
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 122,912 ratings — published 2015
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,870 ratings — published 2025
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,424 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,523 ratings — published 2012
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,760 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,614 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,080 ratings — published 1997
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,921 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,670 ratings — published 2009
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,887 ratings — published 2000
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,693 ratings — published 2021
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 26,714 ratings — published 2021
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,098 ratings — published 2021
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,896 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,219 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,311,429 ratings — published 2011
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,976 ratings — published 2008
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,270 ratings — published 2012
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,509 ratings — published 2004
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,932 ratings — published 2006
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,749 ratings — published 2007
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,464 ratings — published 2004
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,412 ratings — published 2006
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,117 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,293 ratings — published 2005
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,902 ratings — published 2008
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,300 ratings — published 2023
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,541 ratings — published 2017
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 38,494 ratings — published 2020
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,165 ratings — published 2024
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 45,572 ratings — published 2022
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,893 ratings — published 2022
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,588 ratings — published 2023
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,380 ratings — published 2018
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,978 ratings — published 2006
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,142 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,643 ratings — published 2020
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 112,161 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,377 ratings — published 2019
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 94,446 ratings — published 2018
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,018 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,720 ratings — published 2018
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,460 ratings — published 2012
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,602 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 836,628 ratings — published 2016
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,997 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,296,403 ratings — published 1947
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,626 ratings — published 2014
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,841 ratings — published 2004
“Whatever affects one affects all indirectly.”
― The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force
― The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.”
― Second Treatise of Government
― Second Treatise of Government