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Since its founding in 1997, PublicAffairs has been publishing prize-winning and bestselling works of serious non-fiction, with a focus on current affairs, public policy, foreign affairs, and technology. Drawing on deep expertise, our authors seek to educate and inform readers about the issues and events shaping the world today. PublicAffairs’s list of notable books includes Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson’s Power and Progress, Tamim Ansary’s Destiny Disrupted, Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method, Susan Sontag and Christopher Drew’s Blind Man’s Bluff, Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop, and Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak’s They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky.


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