Politics/Current Affairs

Presents an analysis of how Islamic scripture, jurisprudence, and Hadith, can not only accommodate a sexually sensitive Islam, but actively endorse it.

* Essays by some of the best writers and
thinkers of the day, on what it will take to make Britain turn a corner.

In this meticulously researched biography, Michael Ashcroft charts Kemi Badenoch's fascinating course from relative obscurity to being hailed in some quarters as the saviour of conservatism in the UK.

How
to Be an MP is
indispensable reading for anyone wishing to make a mark from the back benches
and influence proceedings in the House.

How to Write a Parliamentary Speech is a practical guide to effective speechwriting from one of the best in the business. In this fresh, funny, practical guidebook, Paul Richards deploys his thirty years' experience writing parliamentary speeches to offer tips, tricks and sage advice.

This essential work looks at the background to the Hamas-Israel war and asks whether the international system can contain two simultaneous wars in Europe and the Levant.

Drawing on extensive polling and analysis this is a pitiless account of how the Conservative Party came to be seen by those who elected it to office.

In these pages, former coalition Cabinet minister David Laws explores periods in British history when one party needed the other to secure electoral support or the ability to govern.

Ten Years to Save the West is an urgent and impassioned call to conservatives about the radical changes that are needed for us to save the West. Ignore her warning at your peril.

Drawing on interviews with former government ministers and Permanent Secretaries - including Vince Cable, Caroline Flint, Rory Stewart, Philip Rutnam, Simon McDonald and Una O'Brien - The Mind of the Minister provides expert guidance and recommendations for how this vital relationship can improve.

Updated new edition of the classic, bestselling book
on the suspicious death of the former government weapons expert.

"The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American ...

This collection of Richard Falk's writings provides unique insight into the momentous events of the Arab Spring, examining how the uprisings came to lose their way.

Explores the underlying trends of Iraq's refugee flow: which class, ethnic and sectarian groups are going where and how. This book examines the economic impact of this exodus on Iraq itself, and on the host countries of the region: Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. It also analyzes international policy on the refugee issue.

Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood, based on the author's viral New York Times op-ed Inspired by her thought-provoking op-ed for The New York Times, Lisa Selin Davis's TOMBOY explores the history, ...

From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a new, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Now they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan ...

Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia will ...

Afghanistan: Parvana's father is arrested and removed by Taliban solders. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave home without a man, so Parvana, her mother and sisters must stay inside. When their food runs out, they face starvation, so Parvana must pretend to be a boy.

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.