Titoli in Libertà e sicurezza

A moving and harrowing portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy, and a people’s undying spirit of resistance "One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years." —The New York Times...

From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relics In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan...

As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War. Facing the global threat of a rising Communist...

In this irreverent ode to gonzo journalism, one writer travels the globe to explore the use of recreational drugs in cultures around the world. After I got out of jail, I was determined to find out more about how the issue of drugs not only landed me there, but has shaped the entire world: wars...

Bloomsbury presents The Second by Carol Anderson, Ph.D., read by Karen Chilton. From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The...

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except …When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he...

Folkmordet i Rwanda 1994 skördade 950 000 offer. På tre månader. Barn, kvinnor och män från tutsibefolkningen höggs skoningslöst ner med machete eller brändes inne i regelrätta massakrer, pådrivna av hutustyret. I Lejonmyran skildrar Lars Arrhenius, som tillbringade sin barndom i...

«Los cuerpos desnudos no le temen al agua es una mirada fascinante y desgarradora al mundo oculto de los refugiados que desafió todo cuanto pensaba que sabía sobre las consecuencias de la guerra y la globalización. Es el trabajo más importante que se ha realizado hasta la fecha sobre la...

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale attempts to build partner militaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam cost the United States billions of dollars and ended ignominiously, with the...

What if racial inequality is not an accident of history—but the predictable outcome of systems built over centuries? From colonial law to modern algorithms, inequality has not simply persisted. It has been structured, reinforced, and reproduced across generations. The Architecture of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Scams are no longer obvious. They do not always arrive as broken emails, strange links, or suspicious strangers. Today, they can look like a message from your bank, a call from someone you love, a fake emergency, a familiar face, or a perfectly normal...

Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp—a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime.

Терроризм—не просто ужасное зло, это одна из самых сложных проб­лем современности, решение которой человечеству еще предстоит найти. Джон Хорган, признанный эксперт в области психологии терроризма, в своей книге описывает механизмы, приводящие обычных людей на путь насильственного экстремизма. Их действия зачастую продиктованы разрушительной идеологией, которая оправдывает применение насилия во имя больших целей, однако мотивация террористов может казаться рациональными только им самим.

Жизнь секретного агента в кино—это шикарные автомобили, смокинги и блестящие остроты, которые он отпускает, расправляясь с очередным врагом при помощи крутых наручных часов. Забудьте обо всем, что видели на экране! Рэд Райли, бывший сотрудник британской секретной службы МИ-6, расскажет как это на самом деле. Приведенные методы проверены на практике, а все жизненно важные шпионские приемы испытаны в полевых условиях.

Un essai courageux au service d'un combat désormais inévitable contre l'intolérance, le fanatisme et l'oppression. Dans L'Islam contre la modernité , Ferghane Azihari, issu d'une famille musulmane comorienne, mais d'abord libre penseur, mène un combat intellectuel à la manière de Voltaire. À la lumière des textes fondateurs et de la géopolitique, il montre comment l'Islam a rejeté l'héritage des grandes civilisations antiques, colonisé les esprits et les peuples, et bâti un système de surveillance morale étouffant.

A Reminder of the Rights We Can't Afford to Forget- Reflections on Freedom, Responsibility and What It Means to Be Human What holds us together when the world feels fractured? In The Future and You, Emma Gilligan offers a quiet but powerful meditation on the enduring role of human rights and how...

La vida de la implacable y legendaria espía soviética África de Las Heras, un fresco de la historia social, política y cultural del siglo XX, a través de los ojos de la niña para la cual fungía de ocasional niñera que, cincuenta años después, ya consagrada escritora, descubre la verdadera identidad de su nana y emprende un viaje alucinante de reconstrucción de su biografía y de la propia.

Bloomsbury presents Dresden by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin The definitive story of the shocking and controversial Allied bombing of Dresden ‘In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad' Independent on Sunday...

Anfang 2020 zog Jabarine nach Ramallah, um zu verstehen, was »Palästina« bedeutet: für die Menschen auf der einen Seite der Mauer und für die auf der anderen. In ihrem Hörbuch erzählt sie Geschichten von Menschlichkeit und Lebensfreude, aber auch von Widerstand. Geschichten, die dabei helfen, die Realität in Israel und Palästina zu verstehen.

Vivimos en una época de engaños. Las agencias de espionaje de todo el mundo dedican una gran cantidad de recursos a hackear, filtrar y falsificar datos, a menudo con el objetivo de minar nuestra confianza en la información y debilitar la base misma de la democracia. Thomas Rid, reconocido...