Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philosophy.
This revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives today
Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique graphic guide.
Meet the people who really run the world and learn the low down about people, politics, power and expense scandals! How are governments elected, why are different countries ruled in different ways and where does all that tax money actually go? Let your child join this lively debate on politics around the world. They'll find out how different systems and beliefs have developed, the ways in…
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medi…
Keberadaan geng, preman, dan milisi telah menjadi ciri yang melekat dalam kehidupan sosial-politik di Indonesia. Selama masa Orde Baru, mereka digunakan sebagai alat untuk menegakkan tertib sosial versi negara dan melanggengkan kekuasaan rezim, misalnya “kewenangan” yang dimiliki organisasi pemuda untuk menggebuk para pengkritik rezim dengan mengatasnamakan Pancasila. Demokratisasi pasca…
In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the largest Communist Party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring other copycat terror programs. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins draws from recently declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony to reveal a shoc…
Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything…