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Treasure Islands
Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
2024 || Paperback || Nicholas Shaxson || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist. Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor. The author shows how this happened, and what this means for you.
Capital
Volume I
2024 || Paperback || Karl Marx || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Presents a critique of private property and the social relations it generates. This book argues that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, predicting its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production.
The Two-State Delusion
Isreal and Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives
2024 || Paperback || Padraig O'Malley || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Author Padraig O'Malley is the subject of the new acclaimed documentary The Peacemaker.
"Impressive . . . [O'Malley] has done a tremendous amount of research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -The New York Times Book Review
Disputes over settlements, the right of return, the rise of Hamas, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and other intractable issues have repeatedly derailed peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
Now, in a book that is sure to spark controversy, ren...
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
The Fight for Our Future
2024 || Hardcover || Maria Ressa || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a ...
How Politics Works
The Concepts Visually Explained
2024 || Hardcover || DK || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Directorate S
The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2024 || Paperback || Steve Coll || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11
Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperat...
The New Spymasters
Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
2024 || Paperback || Stephen Grey || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. This book gives an account of how modern espionage works.
PostCapitalism
A Guide to Our Future
2024 || Paperback || Paul Mason || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh
From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Pa...
Perfect kill
2024 || Paperback || robert baer || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Who Rules the World?
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017
Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump
Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers, how they work, an...