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Jeremie Gallon paints an intriguing portrait of the 'master of Realpolitik', drawing lessons from Henry Kissinger's life and actions to explore the creation of a more coherent and resilient foreign policy, particularly in Europe. Chapters address themes, moments, and characters that shaped Kissinger's career, such as the Harvard years, the centrality of Realpolitik, Jewishness, even football, and his relationships with figures such as Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, and Zhou Enlai - not to mention his mother Paula. This new English edition includes an additional chapter detailing the author's meeting with Kissinger in Connecticut ten days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Gallon is as interested in the statesman as he is in the man himself, delving into the more glamorous and intimate aspects of his life, yet making no secret of Kissinger's contradictions and the moral accusations levelled against him.

<b>The first book to explore from an archaeological perspective the incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats, from fearsome foe to purring pet.</b><br/><br/> Feared, revered and respected, cats have left an indelible pawprint on the histories and civilizations of humankind. In Britain a third of all households have a cat, as of 2021, some 45 million American households owned one or more cats, making them one of the most popular pets in the world. Over the last two million years, cats and people have interacted in diverse and unexpected ways, but the predecessors of your furry friend were predators, not pets.<br/><br/> Here, for the first time, the path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate is set out through an archaeological lens by Professor of Anthropology Jerry Moore. Starting with the terrifying prehistorical scimitar-toothed cat of the Pliocene and the lion drawings of the Palaeolithic Chauvet caves, Moore journeys through our complicated history with these charismatic creatures. He travels along the Nile and across the Mediterranean, sailing on to South America, exploring pet cemeteries, cat mummies and exquisite statuary across continents and centuries.<br/><br/> However, our attempts to bring cats in from the cold have not always had happy endings, as Moore explores through such famous feline fanciers as Joe Exotic, Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn. Combining incredible archaeological finds with contemporary media, <i>Cat Tales</i> surveys ancient and modern interactions between humans and cats, wild and domestic, to ask a simple but profound question: who domesticated whom?

<b>THE INSTANT NO. 1 <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br/><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br/><br/><b>'<i>Want </i>makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' <i>Guardian</i></b><br/><b>'I just loved reading it. It's exceptional' Fearne Cotton, <i>Happy Place</i></b><br/><b>'An empowering project' <i>Stylist</i></b><br/><b>'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' <i>Cosmopolitan</i></b><br/><br/><i>What do you want when no one is watching?<br/>What do you want, when the lights are off?<br/>What do you want, when you are anonymous?</i><br/><br/>When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.<br/><br/>In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds.<br/><br/><b><i>Want </i>reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.</b>

The AI paradox is that we humans are the greatest AI threat, not AI itself. For half a century, humanity has been exhausting our planet's health in an accelerating way. Our self-destructive nature is aligned with and amplified by our technological tools. AI, as the ultimate tool, will be humanity's ultimate test. <br/><br/>The coming years will be the most dangerous in human history. Powerful enterprises are investing astronomical sums to win global dominance in artificial intelligence. Market forces unfortunately reward AI companies that prioritize speed over security. A wall of AI transformation is rushing closer. <br/><br/>In the short term, AI will help us become more productive. After that, jobs will start disappearing at an exponential rate, especially when AI takes robotic form and starts reprogramming itself recursively. We humans will eventually lose our relevance and economic value. <br/><br/>What happens when people who have lost their jobs to AI realize that their only way to make money is by tasking their AI to commit automated fraud and hacker attacks? What happens when one angry person asks their AI to design a pandemic or a self learning computer virus for banks and infrastructure? <br/><br/>There is still time to discuss a safe road forward. What should an AI-governed world look like? What should the balance between safety and freedom be? Can the collective existential AI threat be a uniting force? This book is a sobering, solution-oriented guide to understand the coming wave and to save humanity from ourselves.

<b><i>Trust.</i> It's something every community on earth depends on. Businesses need it. Schools need it. Families need it. Societies need it. And it seems to be disappearing - everywhere, and at an alarming rate.</b><br/><br/><b>If we can't trust anyone, what can we believe? What can we feel certain about?</b><br/><br/>When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia more than two decades ago, he changed the landscape of knowledge forever - although almost no one realised it at the time. Today, people view Wikipedia 11 billion times every month in the English language alone. But in our 'post-truth' era, where the internet is a sea of disinformation and facts are increasingly malleable, Wales reminds us that it's more important than ever to return to the problem at the heart of it all: that without trust, we have no knowledge. And without knowledge, we can't fight back.<br/><br/>Derived from decades of observation, participation and discussion with leaders across the world, <i>The Seven Rules of Trust </i>reveals the fundamental principles that transformed a website from which information was once spurned into a universally trusted source for facts.<br/><br/> This book will help you become a trust-maker - not just someone subject to trends. Someone who can turn back the tide, and inspire other people to follow you. If you want to build something, start something, or just get back to work in the most resilient way possible, this is how to begin.