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'The survival of our democracies depends not on our capacity to hit back at the terrorists, but on our capacity to think for ourselves.' 'The survival of our democracies depends...
The Empire of Ignorance, Hypocrisy and Obedience
Imprint. Presents a powerful and persuasive indictment of the most powerful nation on earth. Asks what is wrong with America and looks for answers by exploring the gap between America's...
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and...
Law in a Time of Crisis
Brexit, the possible break-up of the UK, pandemics, this is a country in crisis. In crises the law sets the boundaries of what the government can and should do. But...
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics
In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems that Congress and...
Where's Dom?: Join Dom Cummings on a sightseeing tour of Britain
Dominic Cummings? More like Dominic Goings! Dom has had a busy lockdown indeed! From the Cheltenham Festival and his local VE Day street party, to the Downing Street Rose Garden...
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
The New York Times bestseller and Amazon.com #1 bestselling post-truth history of America You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts Fantasy is the USA's primary product....
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of
In the warped world of prescription drug pricing, generic drugs can cost more than branded ones, old drugs can be relaunched at astronomical prices, and low-cost options are shut out...
The Long Emergency
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A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the...
How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
In the 162 years since Karl Marx s Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just...
Young Stalin
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs -and one of our pre-eminent historians-comes "a meticulously researched, authoritative biography" ( The New York Times ), the companion volume...
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
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This is an essential introduction to the propaganda model of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective.
The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk: A biography of the pioneering
An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...
The Times Churchill
A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Churchill. Widely regarded as one of the most...
Isaiah Berlin (Fontana Modern Masters)
In this critical introduction to the works and ideas of Isaiah Berlin, the author pays especial attention to Berlin's political thinking, but brings out the connections between it and Berlin's...
Fowl Play: A union pension fund, a community garden, an individual
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In the sleepy seaside City of Sofia, the Local Government and the Community Garden find themselves targeted by relentless public attacks in the media, backed up by blackmail and extortion....
Falun Gong: The End of Days
Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanity's origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese government's...
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists
The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed. Over the...
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers...
The Day After the Revolution
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original...
Ghosts of Empire
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Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique...
United States V. George W. Bush Et Al.
A New York Times Bestseller What if there were a fraud worse than Enron and no one did anything about it? In United States v. George W. Bush et. al.,...
Towards A New Cold War: US FOREIGN POLICY FROM VIETNAM TO REGAN
With the same uncompromising style that characterized his breakthrough, Vietnam-era writings, Toward a New Cold War extends Chomsky's critique of U.S. foreign policy through the early 1970s to Ronald Reagan's...
Objectivity And Liberal Scholarship
Noam Chomsky's classic critique of the ideology of liberalism that justified American imperialist foreign policy during the 1960s-a critique that remains relevant to this day "Provocative . . . Chomsky...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER 'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton , Stratfor Talks ' Pen and Sword Podcast 'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's...
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War. On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Since 1945, the struggle between Arab and Jew over the same piece of land has been one of the world's most entrenched and bloody conflicts repeatedly defying attempts at a...
Year 501
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With chapters on Haiti, Latin America, the new global economic order, the Third World at home, and much more, this is a powerful treatise on the not-so-new New World Order.
Gandhi: Naked Ambition
The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K....
Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines. The world has always had conspiracy theories. From the Illuminati to the...
Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy, Accountability and the Media
The news media is traditionally the watchdog of democracy. Today, it is also one of the most pervasive global industries. In this lively and accessible book, Schultz systematically analyses the...
The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of...
High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
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The cry for and against computers in the classroom is a topic of concern to parents, educators, and communities everywhere. Now, from a Silicon Valley hero and bestselling technology writer...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a...
Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America
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From Democratic Party rising star Jane Kleeb, an urgent and stirring road map showing how the Democratic Party can, and should, engage rural America The Democratic Party has lost an...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the...
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the Day Britain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction...
Sideshow: dumbing down democracy
'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial...
Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia
In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
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A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...
Chomsky On Anarchism
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We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that is wrong with our society reaches more people every day. His brilliant critiques of - among...
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to...
The Machine: Labor Confronts the Future
The ALP is more than one hundred years old and showing signs of age. It's time for a check-up. Where is the Labor Party now and where is it going?...