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New York state assemblyman, assistant secretary of the Navy, New York City police commissioner, governor of New York, vice president, and, at 42, the youngest president ever: in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt "rose like a rocket". He was also a cowboy, a soldier, a historian, an intrepid explorer, and an unsurpassed environmentalist - all in all, perhaps the most accomplished chief executive in our nation's history.

Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st president and his family, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.

The first lady of the United States of America and the first African-American in that position. A huge advocate of women. One of the most iconic and fascinating people of our times. Michelle Obama talks about her life with honesty and humor, in the same way she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revealing, Becoming is an intimate account by a sensitive and strong woman who consistently rose above the expectations of others. Her story inspires to do the same.

An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change. For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America.

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" ( Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.

Der einzige Grund, warum die CDU/CSU sich immer noch eine "Volkspartei" nennen kann, ist und heißt: Angela Merkel. Doch die in großen Teilen der Bevölkerung noch immer beliebte "Mutti" verlässt unwiderruflich das politische Parkett. Damit wird erstmals sichtbar, was ihre größten Kritiker innerhalb der CDU/CSU und auch außerhalb niemals für möglich gehalten haben - "Mutti" Merkel war für viele deutsche Bürger der einzige Grund, die rückständige Männer- und Wirtschaftspartei CDU/CSU noch ein weiteres Mal zu wählen.

We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest. But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don’t know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person’s entire life, worth, and character are judged through the myopic lens of a single act. But no one, says Robin Steinberg, should be reduced to their worst moment. From the founder and CEO of The Bail Project, The Courage of Compassion unveils how we can reimagine justice through compassion.

A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than 30 years in government.

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness,” a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America’s racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion.

One of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid, Mandela: An Audio History tells the story of the struggle against apartheid. It weaves together more than 50 first-person interviews with an unprecedented collection of archival sound: a rare recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela’s life sentence; a visit between Mandela and his family secretly taped by a prison guard; and pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress.

Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country.

An American professor, lecturer and writer Dale Carnegie wrote: "If you want to have an excellent advice how to treat people, control yourself and improve your own qualities, you should read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, one of the most fascinating stories of the life." According to what Franklin wrote in The Autobiography, he developed and tried to implement into life a plan of moral perfection achievement and extermination of bad habits, based on developing skills in 13, described by him, goodnesses.

For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality in all its wild excess.

امتاز غورباتشوف منذ طفولته بمهاراته التنظيمية العالية وتفانيه الكبير أثناء العمل، وأبدى ميلًا للعمل في المجال السياسي، ومع تقدمه في السن ازداد شغفه بالعمل السياسي وأصبح عضوًا بارزًا في الحزب الشيوعي الأمر الذي يعني انخراطه في المجال السياسي في سنٍّ مبكرة جدًا وسرعان ما ترقى في المسؤوليات الحزبية ليصبح أصغر رؤساء حكومات الأقاليم في البلاد عام 1970.

وبينما يكافح العالم اليوم لمواجهة روسيا الأكثر جرأة، فإن أهمية فهم فلاديمير بوتين الهائلة والطموحة لم تكن أكبر من أي وقت مضى... فمن ناحية، ساعدت الإصلاحات المحلية الكثيرة التي قام بها بوتين - من التخفيضات الضريبية إلى توسيع حقوق الملكية - على إعادة تشكيل إمكانات الملايين من الروس الذين كانت تجربتهم الديمقراطية الوحيدة هي الجريمة والفقر وعدم الاستقرار بعد سقوط الاتحاد السوفييتي.

يحكي هذا الكتاب عن الثائر ومؤسس الحزب الشيوعي في فيتنام "هوتشي منه" الذي كان أبرز القادة الشيوعيين فقد قاتل القوات الاستعمارية من أجل تحرير الشعب الفيتنامي وكانت له المساهمة الكبيرة في النضال المشترك من أجل السلام والاستقلال..

في هذا الكتاب الذي أدلت فيه نخبةٌ من القادة الفلسطينيين بشهادات حول هذا القائد الشهيد ، أسهم فيصل الحوراني بكتابة الفصل من الكتاب الذي روى بالتفاصيل تَجربة تأسيس منظّمة عرب فلسطين ودور الشهيد هايل في تأسيسها. شهادات القادة بدأت بما كتبه الرئيس ياسر عرفات وخُتمت بما كتبه الرئيس محمود عباس. وتوالت فصول الكتاب الأخرى التي كتبها كل من مروان عبد الحميد، وفؤاد ياسين ، وهاني الحسن ، ومحمد صبيح ، وتسير قبعة ، ومعن بشور ، ومحسن إبراهيم ، د.جورج حبس ، وفاروق القدومي . وقد ركّز كلّ واحد من هؤلاء على موضوع بعينه وأدرج شهادة الشخصية حول هذا الموضوع.

يشرح هذا الكتاب عن حياة الملك الأفضل باستفاضة ويوثّق وقائع تاريخية لم تُذكر من قبل.

Laurence A. Johnson, a supermarket chain owner in Syracuse, New York, wasn't just passionate about fresh produce; he was equally fervent about purging communism from America's airwaves in the early 1950s. Teamed with like-minded anti-communists, Johnson targeted food giants like Borden and Kraft. He threatened to hurt sales of their products if they sponsored TV and radio shows employing anyone blacklisted for alleged communist ties. The Grocer Who Sold McCarthyism explores Johnson's ascent from small-time grocery operator to kingmaker wielding Red Scare hysteria.

محامٍ شاب آمن بالفكر الماركسي الثوري وسعى لجعله حقيقةً فقام بتأسيس المذهب اللينيني ووهب حياته للدفاع عن الطبقات الكادحة من العمال والثورة ضدّ استبداد الحكومات وتحالفها مع أصحاب رؤوس الأموال، إنّه صاحب الشخصية المثيرة للجدل "فلاديمير لينين" الذي عانى في حياته كثيرًا فقد عاش مُلاحقًا واتُّهم بالخيانة ونفيَ إلى سيبيريا ولم يسلم من محاولات الاغتيال المتكررة التي أودت آخرها بحياته عام 1924.