Rise Fall of the Great Powers,Factfulness,Secret Political Adviser (HB) 3 Books Set
by Paul Kennedy, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Michael Spicer Publisher: Sceptre / William Collins / Canongate Books
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, through competition, economic growth and better military organisation, came to dominate the globe – until challenged later by Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Now China, boosted by its own economic prowess, rises to the fore. Throughout this brilliant work, Kennedy persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic and military power, showing how an imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster....
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think....
The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world, and make you realise things are better than you thought....
The Secret Political Adviser: The Unredacted Files of the Man in the Room Next Door...
Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don't even know his name.But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world's most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with letters, memos, texts, tweets, emails, journal entries, leaked documents and crude doodles, these pages will reveal who The Man in the Room Next Door is and, more importantly, his thoughts on those who employ his services, including Donald 'dangerous puffin' Trump, Boris 'posh motorboat' Johnson and some of their least competent colleagues....
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