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In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. Scott Carney and Jason Miklian tell the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution.

In recent years, China has rounded up three million Uyghurs, placing them in concentration camps. As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist, Nury Turkel tells his personal story of this historic injustice.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration, with events and moments never before told.

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx provides an inside account of the Trump Administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. Here, A. N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man behind the mythic figure.

Chris Armstrong reveals how existing governing institutions are failing to respond to ocean crisis, arguing that we must do better to put equality, democracy, and sustainability at the heart of ocean politics.

Veteran diplomat and former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd confronts the growing sense that the US-China relationship is beginning to hurtle out of control. The purpose of this book is to challenge politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and war.

This book exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get.

For a century, US activists have tried to reform the police. Lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell details what pushed her and a generation of activists to the idea of abolishing the police. She argues that police cannot be reformed and invites readers to envision new systems that address the root causes of violence. Abolition is not solely about getting rid of police, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society and, ideally, eliminate harm in the first place.

Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life, as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.