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Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, a prominent advocate for human rights, has been recognized by President Barack Obama as one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers. In her memoir, she addresses the question "What can one person do?" and calls for a more compassionate and civil approach in our politics and daily lives. Power’s journey from immigrant to war correspondent and presidential Cabinet official is distinctly American. Her critiques of US foreign policy in 2005 caught the attention of then-senator Obama, leading to her involvement in his campaign and subsequent administration. Transitioning from an activist to a government insider, she worked to implement her ideals as Obama’s human rights adviser and later became the youngest US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power’s narrative spans from her childhood in Dublin to the complexities of high-stakes diplomacy in the White House Situation Room. She candidly shares the challenges of balancing a demanding national security role with raising two young children. Throughout her story, she explores the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, emphasizing how the United States can lead globally and how individuals can contribute to advancing human dignity.

Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises. This title tells the story of the man who never stopped learning and of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore but too complex to manage quickly or cheaply.

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.

Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic, "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.