Global America

From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world's oceans from the admiral's chair, showing us how the geography of the oceans has shaped the destinies of nations and how naval power has in a real sense made the world we live in today and will shape the world we live in tomorrow.

The technology of fracking in shale rock - particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas - has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The US is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American power again. Or will it? Investigative journalist and bestselling author Bethany McLean digs deep into the cycles of boom and bust that has plagued the American oil industry for the past decade....

America 2025 to 2028 is a short book. It is based on my understanding of the written word of God. Having been a student of the Holy Bible, I can foretell some eminent events based on past or current inputs with a good degree of accuracy. Now as a teacher of the Holy Bible based on my understanding of the Bible, I can tell who will fail or succeed. There are times when I directly hear from God. This book is based on my analysis using the written word of God. Herein you get to know some biblical admonitions that seems will be violated in America, and the consequences that will follow. The ...

What does the world really think about America? For decades, the United States has been admired, criticized, imitated, and debated. It’s the birthplace of Hollywood, fast food, and global pop culture. But beyond the stereotypes, how do people across the globe actually see America—and Americans? Award-winning journalist René Zografos spent seven years interviewing thousands of people from all seven continentsto uncover the truth about America’s global reputation. In this fascinating book, you’ll hear perspectives from everyday citizens, world travelers, and even celebrities like ...

The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. Chief among them was the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called "the arbiter of the world". Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father but felt himself unworthy to wield it. His 42-year reign changed the face of the globe forever.

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. His sweeping study will be essential material for all students of military history.

Charles Bowden writes, “this book is not about how the world ends but how a new world is being born.” Murder City explores this new world, focusing on the idea that Mexico is collapsing into a permanent culture of violence. Bowden focuses on Ciudad Juarez, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, last year alone 1,607 people were murdered, a number that is set to accelerate in 2009.

In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st century - the end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with a book that takes an up-close-and-personal approach to how real people are living now - surviving The Long Emergency as it happens.

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths: Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance.

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.

Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble - right now. This Is the Way the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth’s systems unfolding across each continent.

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire.

CEOs often say "People are our most important asset," yet companies frequently hesitate to invest in professional education, in-house consulting or internal entrepreneurism. Leadership training is often overlooked as well as change management and teambuilding. This book, based on a dissertation, suggests that without career guidance and personal growth opportunities the best and the brightest will simply leave the company, engage in "quiet quitting" or start their own business. The paradox remains: We know how to maintain talent. So why isn't that happening?

Many of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the United States as the most entrepreneurial, technologically advanced society on earth.

Featuring biographies of Thomas Jennings, Elizabeth Jennings & Elizabeth Jennings (who sat down centuries before Rosa Parks did), Alice Ball, Patricia Bath, George Robert Carruthers, George Grant, Lonnie Johnson (nuclear physicist and inventor of the Super Soaker & Nerf Gun), Charles Turner, Anton Wilhelm Amo, the Russian Noble Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Ivan Abramovich Gannibal, Judith Gideon the Queen of Gonder, Kandake (Candace) the Queens of Meroe, and Princess Adoniah of Kush - Black History is so much more than Rosa Parks! A sequel to Black History is More than Martin Luther King and ...

From New York Times bestselling author and former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a clear-eyed look at how the rise of autocratic China and Russia are compelling some to think that we have entered a new Cold War—and why we must reject that thinking in order to prevail.

Moving beyond Fareed Zakaria's best-selling The Post-American World, veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower.

"The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency....[I]nconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish; it grows." -Al Gore

"A must-read political thriller with a bad-ass heroine at the helm." –Best Thrillers In the confusion following a mass shooting, self-destructive Lori Young is kidnapped and told she's the key to stopping a terrorist plot aimed at reunifying the former United States and restoring its status as a global superpower. The group of former CIA officers wants Lori to leverage her ex-husband and his team of former Tier One military operators into hijacking a nuclear weapon, which will be used to destroy the flow of the continent's most valuable resource and ruin global markets. But the terrorists...

American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.