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The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century

We have entered a new Cold War, even if most people choose not to admit it. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft: di..

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The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they..

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The New World Disorder: how the West is destroying itself

A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented cris..

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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occup..

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The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera 'By thinking about gendered inequality as ro..

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The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

'A riveting read that skips along at pace. Illuminating and concerning, it lifts the lid on the tawdry world of Westminster powerbroking' Tim Shipman, The Times The explosive behind-the-scenes ac..

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The Politics of Design: Privilege and Prejudice Aotearoa New Zealand Australia and South Africa

Taking a broad definition of design and drawing on the shared histories and legacies of settler colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, The Politics of Design offers a wide-ra..

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The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession

After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also pop..

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The Rare Metals War: The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-t..

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The Republic

One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years, and remains as relevant today as when it wa..

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The Russo-Ukrainian War

Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times- do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? On 24 February 2022, Russia shocked the world by launching ..

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The Showman: Inside the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented..

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The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does tha..

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The Trial of Vladimir Putin

There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have a..

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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

'A corporation, or a government department isn't a conscious being, but it is an artificial intelligence. It has the capability to take decisions which are completely distinct from the intentions of a..

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The War Below

The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines. Critical minerals are..

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The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French..

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They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE "Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville." -Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author..

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This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain

'This Time No Mistakes is a brilliant book... an intellectual, historical, political read with some strong themes... read it if you haven't already.' Keir Starmer 'Represents the beginning of a n..

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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

From Ivory to Steel Towers intervenes into one of the most intense and controversial debates of our time: the complicity of Israeli universities in upholding Israel's military occupation of Palestini..

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Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future. 'A life story that genuin..

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Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss

An entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had. 'Through wonderful vignettes, Richar..

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Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War

A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. S..

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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. ..

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Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change

An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend ..

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War

Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency. War is an intimate..

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War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance

How does a newsroom, made up of young journalists, change overnight into a war zone? How do you do your job as a correspondent when the conflict is literally on your doorstep? Reporting the facts as c..

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We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader

A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we..

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Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing

What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, mi..

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What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality between Palestine and I..

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What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a guide for activists

This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret po..

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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom

On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway - the Guidance Patrol deem her hija..

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What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem

The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region. The idea that we can..

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What Went Wrong With Capitalism

A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixed What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma's explanation is ..

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What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics

Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism makes them worse. Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism makes them worse. ..

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When The Bulbul Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege

'Palestine's greatest prose writer' Observer'Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise' Colm TibnBattered by repeated suicide bombs, the Israeli army ..

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Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have known then what Israel woul..

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White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right

In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany - in an engrossing global story that examines violence,..

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Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space

Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise th..

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Why Governments Get It Wrong: And How They Can Get It Right

'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be - or currently serving - politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLS As the list of U-turns grows ever lon..

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Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them

An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it When it comes to politics, there are five goals that voters generally ..

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