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Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power to...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?...
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Now a major Amazon Prime Video series starring Alec Baldwin and Jeff Daniels Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full...
Globalisms: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-first Century
This new edition of Manfred Steger's award-winning book explores the three principal ideologies of our time: the dominant "market globalism" based on a neoliberal vision of the world as a...
Casa Mediterranea: Spectacular Houses and Glorious Gardens by the Sea
The Mediterranean attracts visitors from around the world thanks to its sundrenched landscape, rich history, enticing traditions and welcoming lifestyles. This book showcases a sumptuous selection of some of the...
Science and Islam: A History
This enlightening and enthralling book charts a religious empire's scientific heyday, its intellectual demise and the numerous debates that now surround it. Between the 8th and 14th centuries, scholars and...
Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology
Britain's leading tech writer reveals how to close the gap between technology and society The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year 'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times...
The Expendables: how the middle class got screwed by globalisation
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We are constantly being told that globalisation is good for the economy and good for us, but it's actually the opposite, argues bestselling author Jeff Rubin in this provocative, timely...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades,...
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination - and Secret Diplomacy - to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Natan Notable Book Prize "One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far" (Michael...
Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy
Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and...
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra- like...
Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era
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A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East
The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has...
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. 'Gripping' Economist 'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times 'Riveting' Financial Times...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the Euro Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The acclaimed history of the Mediterranean, from the ancient world to the present For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization....
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
On China
The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since...
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important...
How Migration Really Works: 22 things you need to know about the most
Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate...
My Story
'I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three...
A Liveable Future is Possible
A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...
The Architecture of Modern Empire
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back...
Who Rules the World?
The most influential political writer alive today presents a state-of-the-world look at America's global power and politics 'As long as the general population is diverted to consumerism or hatred of...
On Grand Strategy
'A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present' New Statesman John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel,
'Excellent ... A detailed, even-handed account of the world's most intractable and damaging political dispute' Sunday Times Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in...
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of
A major book on geopolitics by one of the world's best-known figures World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a...
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with trauma and crisis, why some recover, and others don't. In his...
The Enchanted April
Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday - a celebration of escaping the everyday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe ** Sunday Times Bestseller **...
Himalaya: A Human History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains 'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
Because We Say So
Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact has dominated global politics- the United States can respond to any...
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History
Two Harvard professors explain the stages in which governments collapse - and how we can prevent this Democracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly....
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
A bold and eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia In this original and timely book, Bruno Ma es argues that the best word for the emerging...
Islam: The Essentials
The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam...