The Classic of Modern War, now with a new introduction from the author‘There are few better guides to the new geopolitics and the incongruous, elusive, demanding realities on the ground’ Rory Stewart‘A resourceful, intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity’ Washington Post_______Passionate, idealistic, defiant, g...

Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally famed icon, as revered as he is controversial. A Marxist ideologue, he sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare - and has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of change.In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the h...

An in-depth look at Brazilian culture in the series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.In the second half of the twentieth century Brazil made extraordinary contributions to music, sport, architecture. From bossa nova to acrobatic soccer to the daring architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, the country seemed to embody a new, original vision of modernity, at once fluid, agile, and complex.Seen fro...

**“A remarkable accomplishment, one that belongs next to such works of graphical history as the March series and Shigeru Mizuki's Showa books. By foregrounding the tension between myth and truth, Che illuminates the present state of our politics as well as the past.” —NPRThe graphic adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara**Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of t...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker“A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era, combining previously pu...

“A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World“A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington MonthlyPrior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, J...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker“A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era, combining previously pu...

Brought to you by Penguin.He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that...

In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other Western reporters, rode out the entire invasion and much of the subsequent occupation from inside the city. Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches from Baghdad were immediately and widely recognized as the most important writing anyone was doing on the war anywhere, for any publication. In recognition of its signific...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2018, held in Marrakesh, Marocco, in April 2018. The 35 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions.The symposium aims to bring together researchers from all the communities related to combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity, mathematical programming and operat...

Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His “diary of dystopia”—an unexpected fusion of images and words—brings us closer to Havana’s scaffolded and crumbling facades, ramshackle waterfronts, and teeming human bodies. In this book, as beautiful and bleak as Havana itself, Pardo guides us through the relics and fables of an exhausted Revolution in the waning days...