Explore Top Politics & Current Affairs Indie Books
Discover a curated collection of indie Politics & Current Affairs books written by self-published authors from around the world. Whether you're looking for fresh plots, bold voices, or hidden gems, this is your go-to shelf for immersive Politics & Current Affairs storytelling.
Doomed To Fail - Why Government Is Incapable Of Living Up To Our Hopes
By: Paul Shotton
In Doomed To Fail the author explains why, because people have individual agency, human society is a complex adaptive system (CAS). CAS have several important properties: they are highly non-linear, tending to obey power laws, and are deeply interconnected, rendering invalid classic techniques such as breaking a system down into individual components, having experts solve each component separately, and then reconstituting the whole. This method will work for systems which are complicated, but not for systems which are mathematically complex. As in the world of quantum mechanics, there is no independence between the system under observation and the people doing the observing, resulting in the...
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The Rise and Fall of a Republic: Gone are the Days of a Constitutional Republic
By: RJ Salerno
What if the Republic you thought you lived in… no longer exists?In The Rise and Fall of a Republic, RJ delivers a piercing indictment of America’s slow but deliberate descent into authoritarianism. From warrantless surveillance and militarized policing to technocratic governance and the silencing of dissent, this provocative work traces how the foundational principles of liberty, justice, and self-rule have been eroded—not by invasion, but by institutional betrayal.Drawing on history, legislation, Supreme Court rulings, and real-world examples, this book exposes:The hidden architecture of the modern police stateThe transformation of citizens into data pointsThe collapse of equal justic...
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Macht und Wahn: Der politische Krieg zwischen den USA und Russland seit 1945 (German Edition)
By: Tim Weiner
Wieder liefert Tim Weiner, der Geheimdienstexperte und Pulitzer-Preisträger, eine packende und eindringliche Darstellung politischer Machtspiele. In »Macht und Wahn« beleuchtet er die bilaterale Beziehung zwischen den Großmächten Russland und USA.Gespickt mit Insiderberichten zeichnet Weiner fesselnd und anschaulich die Wurzeln dieses inzwischen über 75 Jahre andauernden Kampfes nach, den Amerika und Russland von 1945 bis 2020 mit Spionage, Diplomatie, Sabotage und Desinformation miteinander ausfechten. Weiner führt hinter verschlossene Türen und lässt die Protagonisten – Präsidenten, Politiker, Hintermänner – beider Seiten des Ost-West-Konflikts zu Wort kommen. Er beleuchtet ...
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