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Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

10 best books like Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest (Angela Stent): Losing Earth: A Recent History, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Losing Earth: A Recent History
AuthorNathaniel Rich
ISBN0374191336
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
AuthorDavid Wallace-Wells
ISBN0525576703
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
AuthorTimothy C. Winegard
ISBN0735235791
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate

Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice...
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
AuthorPatrick Radden Keefe
ISBN0385521316
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast...
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0316409138
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
AuthorTim Alberta
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
AuthorKaren Abbott
ISBN0451498623
The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
AuthorJim Mattis
ISBN0812996836
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.

Call...
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
AuthorMatt Richtel
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Siege: Trump Under Fire
AuthorMichael Wolff
ISBN1250253829
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and...
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
AuthorDan Abrams
ISBN1335016449
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019

"Gripping.... Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read." --NPR

A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.

ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story...
The Shadow War: Inside the Modern-Day Undeclared Battles Waged Against America
AuthorJim Sciutto
ISBN0062853651
CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.

The United...
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
AuthorAnna Fifield
ISBN1541742486
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...
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