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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...
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...
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Author: William M. Arkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centres on drones, now...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
Author: John Pomfret Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War,...
The Death of Democracy
Author: Benjamin Carter Hett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of...
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Author: James Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's...
Hitler: A Global Biography
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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
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...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like...
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
Author: Roger Bootle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A well-researched, enjoyable and thoughtful book'. - Calum Chace, Forbes Extraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how...
Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Corrado Vivanti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the...
American Scoundrel
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Tom Keneally Format: Hardback...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, Brexit and Facebook Broke Democracy
Author: Brittany Kaiser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry,...
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of COLLUSION 'Luke Harding is one of the...
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British...
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 Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
Author: Iain Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication...
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
Author: Andrea di Robilant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught...
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future
Author: Benjamin T. Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From the colourful characters of the early Australian republican movement to the failed referendum of 1999, This Time...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
Author: James Kitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to...
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
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 Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Author: Nesrine Malik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave...
Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite
Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953,...
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
Author: Jonathan E. Hillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'One of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China' - Peter Frankopan Its vast...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society
Author: Matthew Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...