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Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV
Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and MargaretA deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt from the award winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt
From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class....
Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II
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Armies Of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899
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Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
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Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
Author: Shibani MahtaniFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 560g, 336 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2023Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years...
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Author: Ewa AtanassowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 227mm, 510g, 388 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew RobertsFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 203mm, 204g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2020A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world...
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays
Author: Ralph MilibandFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 368 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2015When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain," a diverse...
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Author: Daniel KellyFormat: Hardback, 443 pagesPublished: ISI Books, United States, 2002James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
Arendt's Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship
Author: Jonathan Peter SchwartzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
Places Worth Keeping
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American Politics: A Graphic History
Author: Laura LockerFormat: Paperback, 175mm x 255mm, 525g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2018Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams...
A Lifetime in Conservative Politics: Political Memoirs of Sir Joseph Carruthers
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Politics Bargain Book Box
Politics Bargain Book Box Explore the complex world of politics with this curated collection of insightful books. From the inner workings of democracy to the global stage, this box offers...
2020: World of War
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The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War
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The Age of Insecurity
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Sharing the Pie: A Citizen's Guide to Wealth and Power
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Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...
Everybody Matters: A Memoir
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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
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We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
Author: Alex Rowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so...
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba
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Unstill Life: Art, politics and living with Clifton Pugh
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases,and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black...
Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
Author: Andy Ngo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an...
The Whistleblower: The explosive thriller from Britain's top political journalist
Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE HUNT FOR A KILLER LEADS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP... ________________________ 1997. A desperate government clings to power; a...
The Whistleblower: The explosive thriller from Britain's top political journalist
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My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Evatt: A life
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
Author: David Corn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's...
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Author: John Bercow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the...
Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Author: Kate Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news...
Truth to Power: (Gift Edition) 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S.
Author: Jess Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'Will ruffle some feathers.' Stylist 'There's nobody else at...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain
Author: Emma Dent Coad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal....
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
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Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF...