Leadership books for entrepreneurs often focus on growth tactics. This business strategy book examines a different question: why are profitable ecommerce companies separating from the rest despite using similar tools, channels, and advertising platforms. As AI becomes embedded into commerce infrastructure, advantage increasingly comes from decision quality rather than scale alone. The book analyzes emerging business models expected to dominate 2026 across ecommerce, D2C, and AI-enabled ope...

The Crusades reshaped medieval warfare through the demands of defending and conquering fortified cities across the eastern Mediterranean. Castles, siege engines, and supply systems became decisive instruments in a conflict where territorial control depended on endurance as much as battlefield victory. This account explores the military architecture and strategic evolution of the Crusading era. Crusader and Muslim forces developed increasingly sophisticated fortifications capable of control...

This book investigates how a nation built on democratic principles systematically dismantled its own ethical frameworks when confronted with geopolitical urgency, examining the institutional mechanisms that allowed former Nazi scientists to be absorbed into the American state apparatus not despite their histories, but in many cases because of their specialized capabilities. At its core, Operation Paperclip reveals three interlocking systemic tensions: the deliberate distortion of security ...

False peace before the storm examines how concealed appeasement emboldens an aggressor, using the Munich Agreement to show how clandestine concessions shifted power balances and paved the way for broader conflict. The Munich Conference convened Britain, France, Italy, and Germany while excluding Czechoslovakia, thereby removing the affected state from the decision-making process. Neville Chamberlain returned to London claiming he had secured "peace for our time," interpreting the agreement...

A first of its kind, accessible, in-depth resource for leading effective white racial affinity groups—an essential tool in anti-racism for building the skills and perspectives needed for white people to challenge racism.While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed handbook exclusively for white racial affinity group facilitators.There are many challenges ...

A ground-breaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also persevere, in order to advance technology and innovationFrom self-driving cars to smart grids, governments are experimenting with new technologies to significantly change the way we live. Innovation has become vitally important to states across the world.Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo explore how public bodies pursue innovation, looking at how new policies are...

The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir.Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party did to modernize Russia. While he argues that the Sovi...

The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command...

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new international order while others sought to manage America's existing position. Taking readers fro...

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Par...

You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly. Anarchism is a theory of organizing, and in times when global capitalism is in question, we need new ideas more than ever.The reader of this book will learn how anarchist ideas are relevant to today’s management problems. In a series of student-friendly short chapters o...