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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...
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...
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?...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking...
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...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
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...
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...
The Discourses
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics. Few figures...
The State and Revolution
Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...
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...
Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...
Early Socratic Dialogues
Author: Emlyn-Jones Chris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
Author: Ivan Krastev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through...
This Land: The Struggle for the Left
Author: Owen Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain -...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Author: Fareed Zakaria Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017. 'How could such a book speak so powerfully to...
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...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across...
The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power
Author: New York Times Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A celebration of the history-making women of the 116th Congress, who stand as a testament to what power looks and...
A Warning
Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its...