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Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes

With a Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry, Ben Roberts-Smith was the most highly decorated Australian soldier, the best of the best. When he returned to civilian life, he became a poster boy for a..

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Force of Nonviolence, The: An Ethico-Political Bind

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passiv..

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Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story

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Globalization and Its Discontents

**Over 1 million copies sold worldwide**MAJOR NEW EDITIONFrom Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control..

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Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation

In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the re..

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Great Divide

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequ..

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History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past

During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value..

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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Democracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power ..

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How Politics Works: The Concepts Visually Explained

A jargon-free, highly visual guide to every aspect of politics, from political philosophy to 21st-century activism Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and th..

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Inspirational 2021 Nobel Peace Prize WINNER Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 Wh..

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Inspirational 2021 Nobel Peace Prize WINNER Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 ..

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How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster

From the former Director of GCHQ, an invaluable guide to surviving crises -- how to spot them early and lessen their devastating consequences -- using the latest intelligence strategies 'Sir Davi..

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Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work

Historian Laura Robson reveals the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime.Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into cut-rate, disposable migrant lab..

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Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and..

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In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pande..

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International Indigenous Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand

Over the past four decades, international indigenous rights have become a prominent aspect of international law and are now enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Yet, wh..

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International Peacebuilding: An Introduction

International Peacebuilding offers a concise, practical and accessible introduction to the growing field of peacebuilding for students and practitioners. This new textbook comprises three parts, each ..

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Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives, Connections, and Enduring Questions 2E

The hotly awaited second edition of this bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and accessible guide to international affairs. Bringing together the combined decades of exper..

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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism

A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want somethin..

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It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism

A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want somethin..

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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

In the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Killing the Killers, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September..

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Language, Truth & Logic

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Left Is Not Woke

If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you're one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The intellectua..

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Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

How much is too much? e10 million We all notice when the poor get poorer- when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing m..

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Masters of the Lost Land: Murder and Corruption in the Amazon Rainforest

'Powerful' Financial Times 'More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller' Spectator 'A story we all need to hear' New Statesman 'Gripping... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful ef..

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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon

'An essential book' - Joe Jackson, author of The Thief at the End of the World Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron: Joselio d..

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Meaning of Marxism 2e

Long considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. The Meaning of Marxism 2nd Edition argues that rather than being irrelevant, Ma..

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Message from Ukraine, A

The Ukrainian people's message to the world - the only book officially authorised by President Volodymyr Zelensky The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introd..

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Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine

The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II More than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukrain..

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My Russia: War or Peace?

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autoc..

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Nature of Tyranny, The: And the Devastating Results of Oppression

The Nature of Tyranny was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later, another A..

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New Cold Wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West

A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia - based on deep reporting. New Cold Wa..

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Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear prog..

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Nuclear War: A scenario

We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outsid..

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Occupation Diaries

It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: Wh..

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On Anarchism

On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning ..

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On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

A powerful, pocket-sized citizen's guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to ..

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to..

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Our Enemies will Vanish

The compelling account from the front lines of the war in Ukraine . . . Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very..

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Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investig..

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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of China shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organisations and its leader. Ma..

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Peace Education 3ed

"Now in its third edition, Peace Education provides a comprehensive approach to educating for a just and sustainable future. It begins with religious and historical trends that have molded our underst..

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Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth

We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent,..

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Politics

A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers. A student of Plato, Aristotle is considered a founding father of philosophy and ethics. This reflection on the r..

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Politics in a Pandemic: Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand's 2020 Election

2020 was a year unlike any other. Still in her first term as prime minister, Jacinda Ardern found herself facing her biggest challenge yet protecting New Zealanders against a worldwide pandemic. By ..

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Politics: A Survivor's Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged

***Chosen as a 2023 Non-Fiction highlight in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times*** We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financia..

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Post Growth: Life after Capitalism

'Empowering and elegiac' Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now 'Utterly inspiring' Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party 'A masterpiece of measured rage and love' Jonathan Porritt, author ..

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Price of Inequality

America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market ..

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to ..

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Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? T..

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Refugee:  Memoir, A

Persecuted for his political activism, Emmanuel Mbolela left the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002. His search for a new home would take six years. In that time, Mbolela endured corrupt cu..

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