House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

By Eva Dou (2025) Pages: 448 , Final verdict: Great-read This story has it all: UN sanctions, Deng Xiaoping, the Iraq war, the smartphone market, and Trump. A lot of Trump. In House of Huawei, longtime Washington Post (and former Wall Street Journal) journalist Eva Dou pieces together the story of... Read more

Business

Focus: The ASML Way

By Marc Hijink (2024) Pages: 426 , Final verdict: Great-read Imagine a machine the size of a double-decker bus. It costs more than a Boeing 787, is built from over 100,000 precision-engineered parts, and can only be put together in a room that’s 1,000 times cleaner than a... Read more

Business Technology

Freedom

By Angela Merkel (2024) Pages: 720 , Final verdict: Great-read Angela Merkel is the longest-serving leader of a democratic nation in the 21st century, holding office for 16 years, from 2005 to 2021. In Freedom, her memoir, she reflects on her journey from an unlikely political outsider to one of the... Read more

Politics History Geopolitics

As Causas do Atraso Português

By Nuno Palma (2023) Pages: 405, Final verdict: Must-read Why do some countries become richer, and others don't? That is the question that economic historians—and not too many other people—obsess about. Nuno Palma is one of those people. A Professor of Economics at the University of... Read more

Economics Politics History

How Migration Really Works

By Hein de Haas (2023) Pages: 464, Final verdict: Must-read Migration is at the center of political discussions and public opinion. We hear about it constantly in the news, in political debates, and across social media feeds. But beneath the shouting matches and clickbait headlines, how much do we actually... Read more

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