Lisa L. Martin is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (Princeton). From the refusal of the U.S. Congress to approve fast-track trade authority and certain foreign aid packages to the obstacles placed by Western European parliaments in the path of economic integration, legislatures often interfere with national leaders' efforts to reach and implement...

What's longer than a football field, weighs more than 450 cars, yet flies miles above Earth's surface? It's the International Space Station. In this book, you'll learn how the station was built and how crew members live and work there. Looks at the International Space Station, the work astronauts do on board, getting supplies, daily life on the space station, and possible future developments.

"Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years -- including the pandemic -- to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises -- global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution....

"Graziella Almendral, periodista científica y conocida analista sobre la covid-19, nos brinda una visión trepidante de las grandes atástrofes de salud pública de nuestra historia reciente, incluida la más cercana, la provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2. ¿Por qué, cuando la covid-19 aún parecía algo remoto, la comunidad científica lo dejó todo para ponerse a buscar una vacuna? ¿Cómo se las ingenian los virus para provocar auténticos cataclismos?...

"[The authors] use a blend of humor, storytelling, and detailed analysis to reveal for the first time the unbelievable truth about the Great Reset, tying together nearly two decades of groundbreaking research about authoritarian movements and their efforts to fundamentally transform the United States"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket. Glenn Beck argues that the American way of life will not survive the Great Reset and warns us to stop it before it's too...

Beck and Haskins reveal the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations. Elite radicals are plotting to seize increasingly more power for themselves and the institutions they control using emerging technologies: artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies, brain implants, and even gene editing and bioengineering....

"The definitive account of America's historic nuclear deal with Iran. This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations. The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with Iran, and it prevented the possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign...