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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,195 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 — 115,466 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,829 ratings — published 2018
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,915 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 — 620,065 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 — 102,482 ratings — published
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 4.29 — 11,385 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,975 ratings — published 2009
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,794 ratings — published 2000
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 4.33 — 12,363 ratings — published 2021
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,600 ratings — published 2018
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 — 1,955 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,588 ratings — published 1997
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 — 71,793 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 4.31 — 18,744 ratings — published 2004
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,996 ratings — published 1996
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,273 ratings — published 2006
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,425 ratings — published 2007
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,521 ratings — published 2004
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,479 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,474 ratings — published
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,847 ratings — published 2008
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 40,128 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 4.16 — 13,155 ratings — published 2022
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,883 ratings — published 2023
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,086 ratings — published 2021
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,335 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,439 ratings — published 2021
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,275 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,187 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 — 107,267 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,735 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 — 87,245 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,863 ratings — published 2011
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,608 ratings — published 2018
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,247 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,488 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 — 3,988 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,159,027 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 — 5,562 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 — 83,248 ratings — published 2004
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,362 ratings — published 2007
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,993 ratings — published 2002
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.53 — 680 ratings — published 2004
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,082 ratings — published 2010
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,167 ratings — published 2009
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,823 ratings — published 2004
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,332 ratings — published 2005
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,069 ratings — published 2012
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-affairs)
avg rating 4.10 — 479 ratings — published 2002
“Mercy will we overcome this
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I try to give you what you need”
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Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I try to give you what you need”
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“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”
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