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The Truth About Modern Slavery
Paperback,
20/01/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
An expert's guide to ending modern slavery
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State
Paperback,
20/01/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
What if our understanding of Israel/Palestine has been wrong all along?
From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Hardback,
06/07/2021,
£31.95
£28.76
On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP's rise and rule. The party has suffered self-inflicted wounds yet thrived thanks to its flexibility. Looking ahead, Saich assesses how the CCP is adapting to global leadership and the expectations of China's growing middle class.
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
Hardback,
30/07/2021,
£31.95
£28.76
Tata is one of the world's most diversified companies, selling everything from salt to software. Mircea Raianu charts Tata's 150-year trajectory, through the eras of imperial free trade, protectionist nationalism, and market liberalization and asks what the future has in store for India's leading brand and for capitalism writ large.
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World
Hardback,
19/03/2020,
£25.00
£22.50
India: The Passenger
Paperback,
18/03/2021,
£18.99
£17.09
"Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons."-Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£10.99
£9.89
'A roadmap that could turn Africa's potential into prosperity.' - President Cyril Ramaphosa
What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential?
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£5.00
An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy.
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£8.00
Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.
Had I Known: Collected Essays
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£10.99
£9.89
A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists.
Bait And Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
The reissue of a searing investigation into white-collar unemployment from the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed.
Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
A brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich's most compelling book since Nickel and Dimed.
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America
Paperback,
04/03/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
Hardback,
18/03/2021,
£18.99
£17.09
In the spring of 2014, an American rap star unwittingly triggered an online hurricane with the ease of a tweet. Hitting an unprecedented nerve on Twitter, accompanied with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, the message called fort he release of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who'd been kidnapped by a little known Islamic terrorist sect called Boko Haram.
Nationalism
Paperback,
19/08/1993,
£35.25
£31.73
Traces the philosophical foundations of the nationalist doctrine, the conditions which gave rise to it, and the political consequences of its spread in Europe and elsewhere.
Nationalism
Paperback,
20/10/1994,
£39.99
£35.99
Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet its study has only recently gained popularity. This reader gives historical depth to the recent debates on nationalism and traces the development of thought on nationalism across a range of issues.
Globalisation, Democracy And Terrorism
Paperback,
03/04/2008,
£11.99
£10.79
An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.
Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars
Paperback,
13/10/2005,
£19.99
£17.99
How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? This volume compares power-dividing and power-sharing solutions.
The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China
Hardback,
05/06/2014,
£30.00
£27.00
Kerry Brown reveals the intrigue, scandal and murder surrounding the internal battle raging between two China's: one founded by Mao on Communist principles, and a modern China in which 'to get rich is glorious'.
Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China
Paperback,
26/08/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
Explores Taiwan's critical place
in a rapidly changing world as a key flash-point between the United States and China
China's World: The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower
Paperback,
04/11/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11
Paperback,
07/09/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition.
The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
Hardback,
07/09/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism.
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
Hardback,
21/09/2021,
£17.99
£16.19
Why Does America Go to War?
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Hardback,
18/01/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.
The Forty Year War in Afghanistan and Its Predictable Outcome
Paperback,
30/11/2021,
£10.99
£9.89
The story of NATO's disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, and how it repeated the mistakes of the Soviet occupation which preceded it
Warning to the West
Paperback,
03/12/2019,
£7.99
£7.19
From Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the allure of communism, to his rebuke that the West should not abandon its age-old concepts of 'good' and 'evil', the speeches collected in Warning to the West provide insight into Solzhenitsyn's uncompromising moral vision.
Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
Paperback,
30/07/2017,
£11.99
£10.79
Ground-breaking account of Syria's descent into chaos
Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance
Paperback,
21/10/2021,
£21.99
£19.79
Making of Eurasia: Competition and Cooperation Between China's Belt and Road Initiative and Russia
Paperback,
07/10/2021,
£19.99
£17.99
Power of Hope: Thoughts on Peace and Human Rights in the Third Millennium
Paperback,
26/08/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back
Paperback,
04/11/2021,
£12.99
£11.69
'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow
'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage...
Red Line: The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
Paperback,
24/02/2022,
£10.99
£9.89
China and Autocracy: Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy
Paperback,
18/11/2021,
£28.99
£26.09
Accidental Allies: The US-Syrian Democratic Forces Partnership Against the Islamic State
Paperback,
18/11/2021,
£17.99
£16.19
Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Paperback,
03/07/2008,
£9.99
£8.99
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East
Paperback,
21/07/2020,
£12.99
£11.69
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Hardback,
01/07/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
Drawing on the best of American history - what once made it great - without being trapped in the past, Last Best Hope dares America to step into a new and better era.
Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Paperback,
29/07/2021,
£21.99
£19.79
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