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Das neue Abenteuer des "deutschen Forrest Gump". Bei 45 Grad durch die Mojave-Wüste. Über fast 4000 Meter hohe Gebirgspässe in den Rocky Mountains. Mitten durch die Häuserschluchten von Millionenmetropolen. Und hunderte Kilometer entlang endloser Maisfelder in Nebraska. Dieser Herausforderung stellt sich Extremsportler Jonas Deichmann.

In the middle of the holidays, a biological attack wreaks havoc on the U.S. The virus is quick. Deadly. Unstoppable. The country is left in tatters. For Isaac Race, it’s especially bitter. After the death of his parents and sister, he was just getting his life back on track - the weaponized virus changes all that. Battered by the fresh deaths of his foster parents, but hardened by the year he’s endured, he emerges from the temporary safety of his home to seek out other survivors during the worst winter in years.

Wenn Cándido und Delaney sich begegnen, nehmen sie einander nie als wirkliche Menschen wahr, immer nur als Typus der anderen Klasse und Rasse. Delaney ist der liberale Weiße, Kolumnist eines Naturfreunde-Magazins, verheiratet mit einer Immobilienmaklerin, gut situiert und politisch eher unbedarft. Mit wachsendem Unmut sieht er die Anzeichen einer Bedrohung seiner heilen Lebenswelt.

In Grandpa times, we continue to struggle to find a good place to live, to become a real Cultivator again, and the clock on the Heavenlies is running out. Then there's the whole prospect of the Chains of Chaos completely unraveling at great cost to local reality. I'm going to need yet another pillow for the pile.

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had this book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject.

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Mosab Hassan Yousef has worn many labels: Hamas terrorist, Green Prince, spy, traitor, hero, Hollywood player, Muslim, Christian, yogi, stateless, refugee, deportee, citizen. But all these labels have one thing in common: they serve someone else’s agenda. Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling author of Son of Hamas tells the full truth of his story.

Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

In The Project, award-winning journalist David A. Graham offers much-needed context and distills the essential elements of this sprawling document. Breaking down the Project’s strategy for transforming—and radically empowering—the executive branch, Graham then explains what the architects behind Project 2025 would do with that power: restoring traditional gender norms and the supremacy of the nuclear family, decimating the civil service, performing mass deportations, reducing corporate regulation and worker protections, and more.

When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations. Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread.

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River.

Dies ist die Lebensgeschichte von Barry Seal. Er war der wohl größte Drogenschmuggler der US-Geschichte. Er hatte Freunde ganz oben in Washington. Ende der 70er Jahre flog er wöchentlich bis zu 1,5 Tonnen Kokain in die USA - über Mena, Arkansas. Als Seal dabei "versehentlich" verhaftet wurde, kam er dank eines Freibriefs des jungen Oberstaatsanwalts von Arkansas und späteren US-Präsidenten, Bill Clinton, prompt aus der Untersuchungshaft wieder frei.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury delivers a breathtaking insider account of the 2024 Trump campaign—undoubtedly the wildest, most unpredictable campaign in U.S. history, including multiple criminal trials, two assassination attempts, and a sudden switch of opponents.

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.

Hundreds of people have gathered to watch the launching of the USS America - our newest and most sophisticated nuclear submarine. Then, the unthinkable happens. The experimental nuclear submarine is hijacked in broad daylight, and only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: Washington D.C.

Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA", Stratfor, George Friedman's global intelligence company, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover, the startling truth behind America's foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.

America "impero del male" o "patria delle libertà"? Una nazione creatrice di miti e valori o un Paese in declino e diviso al suo interno? Come si misura la "vera distanza" tra San Francisco e Miami? Perché è impossibile avere una conversazione in inglese con un tassista di New York? Come si spiegano la tragica sequenza delle sparatorie e nel contempo il record delle start-up, la scarsa disoccupazione giovanile e la migrazione interna dalla California verso la Florida?

Immer wieder versucht der junge Steve Rogers, Soldat zu werden, um seinem Land im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu dienen und immer wieder wird er abgelehnt. Schließlich wird der Wissenschaftler Dr. Erskine auf ihn aufmerksam und erkennt seine wahre Stärke, seinen Mut und seinen Charakter. Mit Hilfe eines revolutionären Serums wird Steve zu einem großen, starken Supersoldaten. Anfangs wird er durch das Land geschickt, um den Verkauf von Kriegsanleihen zu bewerben, doch als sein bester Freund Bucky von der Organisation Hydra gefangen genommen wird, startet er auf eigene Faust eine Rettungsmission.