'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE 'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVER I'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say.

One of France's bestselling economists issues an inspiring call-to-arms to embrace a greener, more sustainable future

Humanity started small. Where did we get the idea big is better? In this book, the author reveals how our faith in big was manufactured in the 1900s - by a group of powerful business leaders, politicians and thinkers - and gripped the collective imagination throughout the twentieth century.

Gripping behind-the-scenes story of Edward Snowden's massive leak of US secret surveillance.

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying culture, group and identity.

Suitable for a range of disciplines, such as healthcare, development studies, anthropology and globalization, this title covers the Civil Rights Movement, direct action, hactyvism, indymedia, feminism and the Anti-Globalization Movement. It includes an A-Z Index and bibliography that provides tips for further exploration of this field.

The best introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg's thought, including a number of writings never before anthologised.

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? The answer: inequality. This book provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is.

Until September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself.

A readable polemic on the growing dominance of the finance industry over the UK economy, and what the left can do to challenge it.

The story of Palestine's stonemasons and the building of Israel

In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. This is his extraordinary story.

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. This title deals with neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with dominance over public life of the giant corporation.

An account of the five dramatic counterrevolutions that occurred in 1979, showing how the combined forces unleashed by Deng Xiaopeng, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, the Iranian Ayatollah, and the Afghan mujahedin set the stage for the 21st century. It offers a new argument about the hinge on which the twentieth century turned.

This authoritative survey of strategic studies gives students a complete introduction to strategic thinking, from historical and theoretical approaches to the contemporary issues and challenges facing the world today. A team of expert authors present readers with key debates and a range of perspectives, encouraging critical thinking.

This book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.

While dozens of books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. It brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of the responses.

One of the most important strategy manuals ever published, Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War has also been used as a guide to modern business, giving executives an insight into the vital importance of tactics and preparation.

Supreme Court Nominations in an Age of Democracy explores how the rise of mass media, and the democratization of politics more broadly, has affected the Court, the presidency, and the Senate.

The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories of people impacted by injustice across the world.

Explore freedom, power and the biggest challenges of the 21st century with two extraordinary figures