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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town.

أعتقد اليوم أن الحقيقة كانت مزيجًا من كل هذا. كنت قد وُهِبت عند ولادتي منحة نادرة: حضورًا طاغيًا أو ما يُعرف بالكاريزما. كنت ذا طبع مرح، أوحي بالود، وكانت لديَّ سهولة بالغة في اجتذاب الآخرين والتأثير عليهم مهما كان شأنهم؛ بفضل قوة أحاديثي، وصوتي الذي كانت محظياتي يصفنه بالرخيم. كانت لقامتي الطويلة هيبة لا تقل عن تلك التي توحي بها أحاديثي، وكنت قد تعلمت أن أبذل قصارى جهدي لأبدو وكأنني وُهِبت قوًى خارقة للطبيعة لا يمكن للبشر العاديين الوصول إليها”. اختار د. زاهي حواس تقنية تعدد الأصوات أداة لكتابة أولى رواياته، وقد برع حقًّا في استخدامها؛ فكل شخصية تتحدث بلسانها ولا تتجاوز حدود معرفتها ولا طبيعة لغتها ولا حتى القيام بنشاط يفوق قدراتها الجسدية. وقد أثبت براعة في تتبع الشخصيات، والإمساك بالزمن، حتى أن القارئ ليرى غبرة الحجر الجيري الأبيض فوق الأجساد القمحية وهي تبني ذلك الهرم العظيم، ويسمع صليل معارك الفرعون ضد الأعداء، ونسائم الربيع بين رواقات القصر الفرعوني.

We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest attack surface. And that the same nation that maintains the greatest cyber advantage on earth could also be among its most vulnerable.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN , I AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021

The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction. A History of 1111 Years and One Day.'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year

1001 اختراع وحقيقة مدهشة عن الحضارة الإسلامية بقلم National Geographic ... يبدو الكتاب منذ الوهلة الأولى مخصصًا للصغار، إلا أنه يحتوي على معلومات قد يغفل عنها الكبار، يوضح الكتاب إنجازات العرب في الأمم السابقة وكيف كنا أول الأمم في العلم والحضارة

Blueprint for Revolution will teach you how to • make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them • identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control • dream big, but start learn how to pick battles you can win • listen to what people actually care about in order to incorporate their needs into your revolutionary vision • master the art of compromise to bring together even the most disparate groups • recognize your allies and view your enemies as potential partners • use humor to make yourself heard, defuse potentially violent situations, and “laugh your way to victory”

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a series of Louisiana plantations.

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.