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How the World Works
Pulling back the curtain on empire, propaganda, and profit, How the World Works is a bracing excavation of the hidden engines driving global power. With scalpel-sharp clarity, it exposes the elegant lies and quiet violence beneath foreign policy, media narratives, and the illusion of democratic choice. This is a world where the loudest ideals mask the deepest betrayals—and where truth itself is a casualty of convenience. Can justice survive in a system built to obscure it?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 336
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780241145388
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
How to Be a Dictator is a chilling descent into the architecture of absolute power—where fear is sculpted into law, truth is strangled by spectacle, and the cult of personality drowns all dissent. Through eight harrowing portraits, it reveals how tyrants rise not solely by force, but by mastering the dark alchemy of propaganda, surveillance, and manufactured devotion. What kind of world emerges when one man becomes the nation, the voice of the people silenced beneath a single echo? At once gripping and unsettling, this book asks readers to confront the fragile boundary between order and oppression, and to see in history’s monsters the reflection of our collective vulnerability. It is not merely a study of despots—it is a warning whispered through time.
- Originally Published: 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Genre: Politics, History
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1408891612
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Leviathan
KSh 0.00In Leviathan, the raw, unruly passions of human nature clash with the need for peace, order, and survival. From the shadow of perpetual conflict emerges Hobbes’s chilling vision: a towering, artificial sovereign—crafted not from iron or stone, but from the collective will of humankind. Is the surrender of freedom the price of civilization, or the beginning of tyranny cloaked in security? This is not merely a treatise on power, but a mirror held to the soul of society, asking what we are willing to trade to escape the war of all against all. With austere eloquence, it dares to confront the chaos beneath the crown.
- Originally Published: 1651
- Genre: Political Philosophy
- Release Date: March 2021
- Pages: 623
- Book Type: ebook (pdf)
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