Books similar like Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul

George F. Kennan: An American Life

Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War histor…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller.

This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on A…

Buy this book on Amazon

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern worl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia

For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie?

Writer an…

Buy this book on Amazon

Autocracy, Inc.

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, auto…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting,…

Buy this book on Amazon

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument …

Buy this book on Amazon

Song of Myself

One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world. Originally published as part of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, "Song of Myself" …

Buy this book on Amazon

El Aleph

Cuento "El Aleph", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949.

Buy this book on Amazon

Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

Buy this book on Amazon

Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Mi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first …

Buy this book on Amazon

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup …

Buy this book on Amazon

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran--a rivalry born out o…

Buy this book on Amazon

The History of White People

Buy this book on Amazon

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating path…

Buy this book on Amazon

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul similar books