Politics/Current Affairs

A refreshing insightful and comprehensive analysis of how an exit may actually be possible - drawing on real experience and as such supplying a simple summary of recommended policy steps.

An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.

An anthology collecting 23 'letters left unsaid' from some of the most exciting voices in the UK and beyond.

The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive and probing. "Reflections "collects transcripts of the best ...

Focusing on the state of Western culture, from politics and the media to show business and science, this book concludes that we are all Big Babies. It argues that the Baby-Boom generation is running the show, and its own commitment to perpetual infantility is reflected in its unstoppable drive to infantilize the rest of us.

Talking to Children About Race is an enlightening and practical book for anti-racist parents seeking to bring up anti-racist children.

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher Hope.

The essential guide to understanding what populism is, why it's flourishing and what we should do about it

India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This book coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue in order to return the country to a path of high growth.

The word security has a military connotation and refers to the activities involved in protecting or defending a country, in which the State has a central role. This book argues that the State provides as well as threatens security, and that by broadening the concept of security to include both military ...

The linguistics and philosophy professor from MIT is an elder statesman of a resurgenct left. From meditations on human nature to strategic advice for the Trump era, Chomsky remains the thinker who shaped a generation and is a beacon of hope in the darkest of times. The book begins with his razor-sharp ...

An accessible, practical and ultimately inspiring book that not only serves as a much-needed call to arms to end the plastic pandemic, but gives useful tools on how to make meaningful change in our everyday lives and advice on how to demand long-lasting action.

The world looked on with astonishment as the bitter, bloody conflict in Northern Ireland came to an end. This [book] encompasses the historic power-sharing agreement of 2007 between Sinn Féin, politicla wingo of the IRA, and Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party. --back cover.

Seeking a fresh perspective on one of the major issues of our day, global financial capitalism and its devastating effects on our democracies, this is an ideal text for students and teachers in the political sciences and philosophy; corporate and labor law; economic sociology; social and economic history; and industrial relations, business, and management.

Hennessy surveys the constitutional building site opened up for the whole of the UK by the Scottish referendum, offering personal impressions of the time when the 300-year-old Act of Union was called into question and when he, as the UK's foremost expert on our unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what may happen next.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)." -- Laura Miller, Slate"Salacious and score-settling." --The Guardian"Part ...

A close insight into the Moussaoui trial from an anthropological perspective

Explores the relevance of the Gramscian concept of passive revolution and Caesarism in the context of the Egyptian revolution and counter-revolution.

Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America

Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history. In this ...