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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition....
The Prince: Popular Penguins
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 110 As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall....
For the Record
Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue
Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Author: Alberto Alemanno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative...
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Author: Tom Mueller (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
Author: Brian MacArthur Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era. The twentieth century was a...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Author: Anand Giridharadas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the...
On Grand Strategy
Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Jeremy Dronfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust In...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
Author: Priya Satia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
Author: Samira Shackle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
On Liberty
Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle'...
Turning to Face the East: How Britain Can Prosper in the Asian Century
Author: Liam Byrne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The global crash has dramatically changed the world's balance of power. America, once the world's hyper-power, is in retreat...
The Unnamable Present
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists,...
Because We Say So
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics. This text argues that the...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An extraordinary collection of Nabokov's little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last...
Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap
Author: Annabel Crabb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 What would equality look like when it comes to gender and work? Annabel Crabb's acclaimed Quarterly Essay is now...
Optimism Over Despair
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...
On Anarchism
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 What is Anarchism? Anarchism is a radical scepticism about structures of domination, authority and hierarchy throughout human life, from...
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to the rise of the alt-right - THE definitive state-of-the-nation analysis...
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
Stasiland
Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the...