Politics/Current Affairs

In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.

A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year. Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Here, he reveals in illuminating and often hilarious stories what our top politicians are really like behind the mask.

'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, ...

From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep.

Has political correctness gone too far?

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

Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine.

This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, ...

A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world
Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. In the first book of its kind, the manifestos are ...

If we care about inequality, we have to talk about private schools

Stories of economic shame in Britain and a hopeful way forward for capitalism

The legendary financier reflects on key problems in the deepening global economic crisis since publication of his international bestseller The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Crash of 2008

One of Britain's leading human rights lawyers examines the laws essential to our freedom and confronts the escalation of government power

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

The story of a British woman travelling through a Middle East in revolt; it reveals how the Iraq war and the Arab Spring led to ISIS and the Syrian civil war, and caused the flood of refugees into Europe, contributing to the rise of populism in the West.

An urgent and persuasive argument for why we must fight global monopolies to protect freedom and prosperity.

The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist.

Natalie Fee's upbeat and engaging book is a life-altering guide to making those changes that will contribute to helping our planet. Covering all key areas of our lives, this book will galvanise you to think and live differently.

A biography of the Sinn Fein leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald.