Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love

Part revealing story, part political analysis, part intellectual journey, this work shows how a political system that has traditionally responded to the interests of the middle class has been taken over by the super-rich

Detailing the precise political calculations of distinct African leaders, Herbst isolates the basic dynamics of African state development. In analyzing how these leaders have attempted to consolidate power, he is able to evaluate a variety of policy alternatives for dealing with the fundamental political challenges facing African states today

The central theme of the book is state formation. Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s – a thousand-year time span

The book analyses the complex calculations of the various political and social forces that emerged from or surfed on the revolutionary fervor that gripped Egypt in 2011, from the Muslim Brotherhood to non-Islamist factions and civil society groups

The book, written by a group of philosophers, aims to exhibit some of the main problems in the various fields of philosophy a they stand at the present stage of philosophical history

A magnificent study of how the German army recovered from the First World War, succeeded in the interwar period, laid the tactical foundations of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, German military leaders created and nurtured the Reichswehr, a new military organization built on the wreckage of the old Imperial Army

The book explores in detail the discipline that studies storytelling in general, the author emphasizes that storytelling can be found not only in literature, cinema and theater, but also everywhere in people's daily lives. This widely used introduction, now thoroughly revised, is based on the latest developments in the field

Leadership in Organizations provides a balance of theory and practice as it surveys the major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organizations

Martin van Creveld has written a bold research paper on the nature of war and its radical transformation. The author argues that the overwhelming picture of conflicts in the post-1945 world is no longer amenable to rational analysis, postulates the inconsistency of our most basic ideas about who is waging wars and why, and raises the question of the inevitability of the human need to "play" war. It is one of the most important books about the war that we are likely to read in our lifetime