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The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of...

Sachunmittelbare Demokratie im internationalen und interdisziplinären Kontext 2013/2014 - Mittel- und Osteuropa / Österreich Schweiz Deutschland

Dieser Sammelband präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Wissenschaftstagung des Deutschen Instituts für Sachunmittelbare Demokratie in Dresden. ...

The Playbook - How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World

'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful r...

Heroic Failure - Brexit and the Politics of Pain

An insightful dissection of the psychology, characters and dynamics at play in Brexit, and a call to arms to hold these forces to account...

I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

10th anniversary edition of the bestselling memoir of youngest ever Nobel Prize winner

The Quiet Before - On the unexpected origins of radical ideas

'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker 'Fill...

Why We Fight - The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, di...

Race for Tomorrow - A Journey Through the Front Lines of the Climate Fight

As featured on CNN¿s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4¿s Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times¿ best books of 2021

Preventable - How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health ...

His Name Is George Floyd - One man's life and the struggle for racial justice

*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION* *Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction* 'His Name Is George Floyd is essenti...

We Are Displaced - My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we r...

After the Fall - The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be ...

How Civil Wars Start - And How to Stop Them

Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 ¿ New York Times Bestseller ¿ WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD ¿ BOOKS OF TH...

THE REPUBLIC OF ARMED MOVEMENTS - CHAD, DIFFICULT EXIT FROM THE IMPASSE Pamphlet

This account describes in detail the evolution of Chad's turbulent political life from independence to the present. It has been about fif...

Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society - Russia's Annexation of Crimea IIIA Debate on Prospect Theory and Explaining Russia's Annexation of Crimea

Contents Special Section: Russia`s Annexation of Crimea III Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland: Introduction. Perspectives on Russiäs 2014...

The Russia Conundrum - One man's fight to save his country's soul

'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo rad...

Marx and Marxism

Gregory Claeys is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a leading historian of socialism and utopianism. He i...

National Populism - The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

Roger Eatwell is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Bath. He has published widely on fascism and populism, including Fas...

Russia's War of Aggression against Ukraine - "Zeitenwende" for German Security Policy

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine represents a Zeitenwende - a turning point - in German foreign and security policy, which r...

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book From noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's...

The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

The magnitude of the Burger Court has been underestimated by historians. When Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, "Impeach Earl Warr...

Climate Justice - A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution

_______________ 'As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on...

Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times 'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' Ne...

Meaningful Resistance - Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for re...

A Certain Idea of France - The Life of Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London and one of the foremost British experts on twentieth-century F...

Boris Johnson - The Gambler

Guardian 'literary highlights of 2020' Sunday Times 'books to watch out for in 2020' New Statesman 'books to read in 2020' Evening Standa...

China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet - New Media, New Politics

China is transforming Africa's information space. It is assisting African broadcasters with extensive loans, training and exchange progra...

A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies

Three Dangerous Men - Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

In Three Dangerous Men, defence expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While A...

Behind Bars - On punishment, prison & release

An extraordinary debut collection of poetry which tackles the criminal justice system.

Autocracies - Introduction

This textbook provides a systematic, comprehensive and historically embedded introduction to the formation, functioning and development c...

Identity, Ignorance, Innovation - Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it

'D'Ancona makes his case well... The book is well written and thoughtful' -- The Times 'A heartfelt attempt to renew liberal ideals for t...

The Chancellor - The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

`An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader¿ WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the Peop...

Essential Public Affairs for Journalists

Knowledge of public affairs matters: this friendly guide is an invaluable read for journalism students and journalists looking for a firm...

Russian Politics Today - Stability and Fragility

An accessible, nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics with the theme of stability vs. fragility as its overarching framework.

The Age of Unpeace - How Connectivity Causes Conflict

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze 'Full ...

The World As It Is - Inside the Obama White House

From 2009 to 2017, Ben Rhodes served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama overseeing the Administration¿s national secu...

But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

'Everything a manifesto should be: heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i __________________________________________________ ...

How Did We Get Into This Mess? - Politics, Equality, Nature

Where have we gone wrong, and what can we do about it?

This America: The Case for the Nation

An exploration of the struggle against illiberal nationalism in American history, with this often coming down to making an alternative, l...

Sprache und Politik - Perspektiven und Fallstudien zum konstitutiven Medium des Politischen

Sprache und Politik stehen in einem konstitutiven Zusammenhang: Sprache ist Voraussetzung, Medium und Resultat von Politik. Die Untersuch...

Exploring British Politics

This book provides an essential historical background, contemporary issues are to the fore throughout and readers are encouraged to asses...

You Will Not Have My Hate

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but y...

A Nation-State by Construction - Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism

This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an an...

Teaching the Holocaust by Inquiry - Foreword by Michael Berenbaum

Noted Holocaust historian Michael Berenbaum writes, "The Holocaust raises important questions and resists easy answers." This book offers...

The Good Die Young - The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

Kissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy endures

The Devil's Highway: A True Story - A True Story

"Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vivi...

Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie - Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck

Der Band ist dem Verhältnis von Informationen, Wahlen und Demokratie gewidmet. Deutschland, aber auch andere Länder in den Blick nehmend,...

Einführung in die Nationalökonomie: Was ist Nationalökonomie? + Wirtschaftsgeschichtliches + Die Warenproduktion + Lohnarbeit + Die Tendenzen der kapi - Was ist Nationalökonomie? + Wirtschaftsgeschichtliches + Die Warenproduktion + Lohnarbeit + Die Tendenzen der kapitalistischen Wirtschaft

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) war eine einflussreiche Vertreterin der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung, des Marxismus, Antimilitarismus und "pr...

The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a fi...

The Politics of the European Union

This textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the politics of the European Union using a comparative politics approach....

We Need To Talk About Xi - What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader

Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basi...

Losing Earth - The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change

'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, ...

Who Governs? - Democracy and Power in the American City

"In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of t...

The Cubans - Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma...

Left and Right - The Significance of a Political Distinction

Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' ...

War for Eternity - The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right

'Insightful and immersive' Sunday Times 'An intellectual non-fiction thriller' Financial Times A riveting exposé of the hidden philosophi...

Inside Putin's Russia - Can There Be Reform Without Democracy?

Drawing on interviews with Putin, other leading figures, and ordinary Russians, Andrew Jack, former Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial ...