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Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope
'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book...
The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct
Sigmund Freud's death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have...
The Trayvon Generation
*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times , Bustle , and more* In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and...
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war
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How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
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Flash Boys
The Master of the Big Story is back If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is...
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl,...
Down and Out in Paris and London
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America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's...
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia
Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell...
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. An Economist, Financial Times, and Prospect Book of the Year For much of...
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour Racism...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
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...
The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside
The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch,...
A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED: How we got into the mess we're in,
'A powerful book . . . highly readable and informative . . . Demands to be read.' - Lindsay Tanner, The Monthly Informed, impassioned, insightful and witty, Satyajit Das returns...
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants- an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones Umberto Eco was an international...
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai
From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one...
Leviathan
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th
This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of...
Orwell's England
All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England,...
Orwell and the Dispossessed
An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not...
Poor
Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture that shapes them What is it like to grow up in...
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us,...
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The origins, consequences and limitations of identity politics- an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious...
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schroedinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times
The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them Well-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do. 'This is the...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why...
Poverty, by America
A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times) In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was 200 years ago. A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and...
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...
Because of You
PRE-ORDER THE EAGERLY AWAITED, LIFE-AFFIRMING AND HEART-WARMING NEW NOVEL FROM NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR DAWN FRENCH After five long years of waiting for a new novel, Dawn's millions of fans will...
Notes of a Native Son
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop the false equivalencies Interrogate whiteness Interrogate capitalism Denounce the white Saviour...
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
One of the world's leading philosophers on how we can restore social solidarity and overcome our rancorous politics These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' - Guardian What explains the spreading backlash against the global...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About
A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white...
I Am Not Your Negro
Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States To compose his stunning documentary...
The Meritocracy Trap
A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has caused today's political, economic, and psychological crises - and how we...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past What can...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore
The sequel to the global phenomenon The Spirit Level, this book explores the impact of inequality on each of us individually. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now...