Politics/Current Affairs

Using recent economic crises in the United States, Europe and Argentina to examine the interactions of power, politics and markets, Shambaugh analyses how political uncertainty affects market risks and identifies the conditions under which economic technocrats can compensate for political turmoil and manage market behaviour.

Oil and gas are running out faster than the vast majority of people realise and this will have seismic consequences for the whole world. Even by the year 2005, oil will start to become in short supply, prices will start going up, and politicians will opt for the nuclear energy option - with all the consequences that this option implies.

We Are Feminist is an accessible and fully-illustrated book that tells the story of the women's movement over the past 150 years. In a fantastic gift format, it's the perfect introduction to modern feminism for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the women's rights movement. The book ...

China vs America is a powerful call to correct the collision course on which the great powers of the world are currently embarked before it is too late.

This book points to everyone responsible for Donald Trump's tragic mismanagement of the pandemic. Blame lies not entirely or even largely with the president, but with subordinates willing to do his bidding even as it became apparent his leadership was fatally flawed.

A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach. But ...

The newly elected left-wing President sets out his programme for a new Mexico.

We see the signs around us every day, the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate high streets and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. This book makes the connection between these isolated, incremental, local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded.

An Almost Zero Waste Life is an aspirational book to teach you that being zero waste isn't necessarily about zero, but more about changing the way we see the world around us, how we consume, and how we think about waste.

How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics?

Sam Delaney wanted to find out more about the strange relationship between British politics and advertising.

A gripping true crime account of radicalisation in Britain - and how it can be prevented.

An important new polemic from the Provocations series. Ball and Greenway examine how the `blagocracy' has come to rule Britain, and why that needs to change.

In a broken Britain in which politics has failed, the law is our one defence. But it is under severe threat from a rising tide of populism.

From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought.

One of the outstanding journalists of our time provides a moving, personal account of war and issues an impassioned call to put the substance back in our news

This exhaustive reading of the review Lignes provides the first in depth study of a French intellectual periodical publication form the 1980s to the contemporary moment.

Standing demonstrates why, in the interests of democracy and our common wealth, the rise of rentier capitalism must be resisted.

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'Brexit means Brexit.' 'Strong and stable.' 'I don't think I'm in the least robotic.'

Ever since Theresa May first whirred into inaction as prime minister, there has only been one reliable source of strength and stability: John Crace's political sketches for the Guardian.

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the chance to carve out a new identity.

A nuanced investigation into the state of liberalism in Egypt