Politics/Current Affairs

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.

We are not entering a new era of fake news - we are finally facing up to the world we live in.

An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist.

Is worldwide famine just around the corner? And do I really have to go vegan?

'Global' warming is a global problem. We already know that we need to start making better choices for the sake of our natural world. So why aren't we already saving the planet? This book follows one psychologist's mission to find some answers to this question.

The classic study of Pahlavi-era Iran, written on the eve of the 1979 revolution

Has political correctness gone too far?

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests