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The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.

A revised and expanded new edition of the beloved work of political science that shows how the rules of politics almost always favor leaders who ignore the national interest and focus on serving their own supporters.

Renowned financier and philanthropist George Soros reveals the roots of Europe's current financial crisis and comprehensively assesses the consequences of that crisis for the global economy and on the political ideals embodied by the European Union.

A New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus.

A dramatic narrative history of the people and opinions that gave rise to hysteria in Charleston, South Carolina's secession and sparked the Civil War. Paul Starobin brings to life the South Carolina's propagandists, politicians, populists, and pro-slavery pastor to chart the relentless progress of the contagion. The result is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War-with echoes in our raucous politics today.

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging.

A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.

A timely, essential guide to how America feeds itself and companion book to the new documentary