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The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
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 Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
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 Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
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...
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The definitive story of the Great Financial Crisis and how it continues to haunt our lives In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers,...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history...
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular...
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V....
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how...