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Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
Author: Charles Dunst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 ' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim...
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Before he was president, he was senator. Written two years prior to the election that would change the face of the...
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader
Author: Penny A. Weiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor's investigation into stalking
Author: Nicole Madigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping blend of memoir, investigation and expert analysis, Obsession takes a deep dive into the disturbing phenomenon of stalking. Journalist...
Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party
Author: John Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved....
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps...
Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age
Author: Martin Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, elite populists, and freextremists are exploiting our digital information infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
The New Socialist Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Why It Matters Now
Author: Dan Tucker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, the U.S. is witnessing a leftward shift that hasn't been...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world
Author: Rob Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed exposed the impossibility of living on the minimum wage in the USA. Now, with...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region...
The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN...
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation
Author: Hana Walker-Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should. A teenage rugby player plays on through multiple blows - and never...
Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russiawas about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was...
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani
Author: Behrouz Boochani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness...
Shy: How Being Quiet Can Lead to Success
Author: Annie Ridout Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Society tells that us that being shy is a fault, but Annie Ridout says it's a gift. Shy: How being quiet...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right
Author: Jacob Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher...
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Parag Khanna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the...
Human
Author: Charlotte Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us
Author: Pete Etchells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a...
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It
Author: Tobias Rose-Stockwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Author: Susie Alegre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Author: Joel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia
Author: Agnieszka Sobocinska Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller
Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking...
Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
Author: Karl Radek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 510 This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to...
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
Author: Laura Dodsworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans - oppressive authorities,...
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict
Author: William Ury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The author of the world's best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with...
Be Who You Want: Unlocking the Science of Personality Change
Author: Christian Jarrett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Winner of the 2022 Book Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Today, more than ever, we are aware...
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Author: Victoria Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023 'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer 'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Author: Ashley Mears Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how...