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Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (33)
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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.
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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.
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Flash Boys
Cracking the money code
2024 || Paperback || Michael Lewis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Tells the story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistle blowers who tried to stop them.
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World Order
2024 || Paperback || Henry Kissinger || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter Isaacson, Time
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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End Times
Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration
2024 || Paperback || Peter Turchin || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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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...
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National Populism
The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy
2024 || Paperback || Roger Eatwell e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism
Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western liberal democracy, from the United States to France, Austria to the UK.