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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...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Many of the men and women who had worked at Bletchley Park moved on to GCHQ, the British government's new facility...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
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...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made
Author: Mark Townsend Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo
Author: Kenan Malik (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by...
Australia Day
Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
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...
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 Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem
Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power
Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...
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...
The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be
Author: Dexter Dias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 An extraordinary investigation into human nature, by one of the most eminent international human rights lawyers The inspiration behind...
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...