Politics/Current Affairs

A blistering, accessible and invigorating polemic against the current political consensus.

Highlights the political paralysis that prevents the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes.

An incisive look at how America's continued demographic explosion has spurred the development of a new identity as people of color.

A new model for a new Europe

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation's unemployment system-who it helps, who it hurts, ...

Exposes the secret history of US torture at home and abroad.

'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman

Against the privatisation of water

Afghanistan's unstable history has been further complicated by the emergence of the Taliban - one of the most conservative and least understood Islamic movements. This book provides an account of the background to the ongoing conflict in the area, and a profile of the Taliban movement itself.

Pocket-sized guide to the best websites on Black interest and culture

A critical engagement with citizen participation, state power and the difficulties of realising the principles of participatory democracy

To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in Central Asia. This book provides an account of this alliance and how the CIA planned and ran a holy war in Afghanistan.

The former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine brings his life's work together to discuss how the region can find peace

An account of modern liberation theory in today's Capitalistic Latin America

A call to arms from the leader of the Liberal Democrats that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women.

More serious than global terrorism. More urgent than global warming - the world is running out of oil

International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.

How and why Bolivia's radical government under Morales came to power, and the challenges it faces.

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Responding to the call to public service, he had afront-row seat from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s. This is his inside account of the lives of public servants from the perspective of a lifelong moderate.