Politics/Current Affairs

Combines critical scholarship with investigative journalism to examine the US government threat to journalists, a threat ignored or dismissed to date.

A sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.

An insider's account of the Sri Lankan civil war

Reveals how George W. Bush's religious fundamentalism has been transformed into political policy.

A CBS journalist traces roots of current 'terror' to America's involvement in Lebanon in the 1980s

'An antidote to the rising tide of despair' - The Herald

A unique study of the language and political thought of jihadis

What is the legacy of the war in Iraq?

Shows how space technology is being used by the US military to create and control endless preventative war.

Reveals the human stories behind China's extraordinary growth

Examines the American family through the eyes of a Japanese anthropologist.

A collection of short, punchy essays arguing that communities are alive and thriving, but not under government control.

How Latino communities are transforming the politics of race, migration and labour in the US.

Historical and political analysis of the impact of inequality and capitalism on the health of US workers.

A critical view of globalisation which analyses the devastating impact of neoliberalism in the post-communist world

From coups to earthquakes, this is a history of a country denied its own freedom

Essential guide to understanding the roots of the economic crisis, and how to solve it

How will our ageing populations change society?

In this short, elegant essay, Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, draws up nine lessons for Brexit that we, as a soon-to-be `third country', need to learn from the last few years, if the next few years - indeed the next decade - are not to be even more painful.

'One of the most important books of the decade' Country Life

Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.