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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade
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Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always...
Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
Author: John C. Maxwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Two of today's most respected world-changers, leadership expert John C. Maxwell and global development leader Rob Hoskins, share...
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...
The Journals of Captain Cook
Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
Author: Christopher Andrew Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 960 A stupendous history of intelligence, its uses and its neglect - by 'the doyen of intelligence historians' (New Statesman)...
On Palestine
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 An indispensable analysis of the current challenges in one of the most troubled regions on our planet On Palestine...
Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Author: Dave Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. Peterson From host of THE RUBIN REPORT, the most-watched...
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 Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual'...
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...
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader
Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership "Abraham Lincoln had less...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It
Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and hisallies fought to reverse the outcome of...
On China
Author: Henry Kissinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic...
The American Duchess
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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
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Author: Philip Zelikow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A deeply researched international history and exemplary study (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and...
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...
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...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply...
Charles Dickens
Author: Jane Smiley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES...
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...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
Author: Thomas Mayo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for...
The Conquest of Bread
Author: Peter Kropotkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by...
Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us
Author: Kubra Gumusay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language...
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: From the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Author: Elif Shafak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do...
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Author: Francis Fukuyama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Liberalism - the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism - has never been so divisive...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the...
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John...
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Author: Suzanne Nossel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A must read."-Margaret Atwood A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
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Author: Douglas London Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents...
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...
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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Author: Kai Strittmatter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
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...
A Discourse on Inequality
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies....
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources
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Author: Norman Pearlstine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 318 Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of...
The Tyranny of Merit: Why the Promise of Moving Up Is Pulling America Apart
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Author: Michael J Sandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the...
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential...