NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopo...

Guarding Lily is a heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and the quiet, enduring connection that proves "until death do us part" is not quite enough.Were you ever in a situation on Earth when you suddenly, and without reason, felt peaceful? There's a better-than-likely chance that was your Guardian Angel.When Bob wakes up in Heaven, he's given a new purpose: to become his wife Lily's Guardian Angel.Bob quickly learns that Guardian A...

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.**Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natur...

Great careers don't happen by accident. Take charge of yours.If you read nothing else on managing your career, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you create opportunities, navigate transitions, and achieve your most ambitious goals.This book will inspire you to:Discover what you’re passionate about, and do more of itUse strategic thinking to cra...

We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, with the world facing a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of empire, and countless other dangers. In*Waste Land,*Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of over twenty books on world affairs, explains incisively how we got here and where we are going.As in much of his work, Kaplan looks to history, literature, politics and philosophy to interpret our world, drawing...

In master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's action-packed thriller, the CIA sends its top agent to Southeast Asia to stop a war that threatens to be even bloodier than the conflict in VietnamThe photograph in the CIA vault shows four men relaxing in the jungle, green berets draped over their rifles, enjoying a break from combat. On the day after the picture was taken, their friendship was torn apart forever. Now, ten years after the United States pulled out of Vietnam, th...

To prevent the rebirth of the Nazi regime, an ex-CIA agent turns SS hunter in this thriller of deception, buried history, and a far-reaching conspiracy.In the hell of Auschwitz, the devil was named Mengele. His atrocities were unspeakable, and among his victims were the wife and child of a man named Wasserman, who was forced to watch them die. Mengele survived the war, disappearing into hiding in South America, and Wasserman ran too—fleeing to the United States to ...

**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John Bolton, The Wall Street Journal**One of Fina...

She's in the Advertising Hall of Fame. Her ad agency taught a duck to yell "Aflac!" She composed the Toys 'R' Us jingle that most Americans can sing by heart. In My Life in 30 Seconds, Linda Kaplan Thaler pulls back the curtain on forty years of creating advertising magic: writing a song with Stevie Wonder, interviewing Warren Buffett over a Cherry Coke, and getting millions of women to moan "Yes! Yes! Yes!" just from washing their hair. Funny, warm, and packed with bite-sized wis...

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted—from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He’s seen breakthroughs often occur in spite of, rather than because of, the behavior of the research community, and how support can be withheld for those who don’t conform or have the right connect...

A funny, fiercely feminist YA epic fantasy—following the adventures of a tavern wenchTanya has worked at her tavern since she was able to see over the bar. She broke up her first fight at 11. By the time she was a teenager she knew everything about the place, and she could run it with her eyes closed. She’d never let anyone—whether it be a drunkard or a captain of the queen’s guard—take advantage of her. But when her guardian dies, she might lose it all: the bar, h...

**Succession meets John Wick…with immortal Vikings.Zack Kaplan and Fico Ossio return with part two of their high-action, high-fashion Viking saga, collected in this sleek graphic novel!**The Asvalds were once a powerful billionaire Viking family with a source of secret immortality, until the family’s only daughter, Frey Asvald, led her brothers in a principled rebellion to overthrow their barbaric father and end their eternal powers.But when an anc...