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    Paul Kingsnorth: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist [2017] paperback

    €7.99

    Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist, an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis...

    Sam Delaney: MAD MEN & BAD MEN Z44 [2016] paperback

    €6.99

    How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics?What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and smart-arses invaded Westminster, sprinkling creative fairy dust over earnest...

    Alev Scott: TURKISH AWAKENING Z44 [2015] paperback

    €7.99

    Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political...

    Kat Banyard: PIMP STATE Z44 [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of...

    Noam Chomsky: Interventions [2007] hardback

    €9.99€18.56

    Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best. At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of...

    Humphrey Hawksley: Democracy Kills [2009] paperback

    €6.99€18.56

    For many years Western governments have insisted that the only way to achieve long-term prosperity and political stability is through a combination of free-market economics and democratic government. Yet, all...

    Charles Clover: The End Of The Line [2005] paperback

    €5.99€22.84

    We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished. If nothing is done to stop the squandering of...

    Kenneth Morrison: Marx, Durkheim, Weber [1995] paperback

    €19.99€29.99

    Every undergraduate course in sociology focuses on Marx, Durkheim and Weber, yet students often find their first contact with these writers to be a difficult experience: the language of these...

    Imogen Edwards-Jones: HOSPITAL BOBYLON - - W9 [2012] paperback

    €4.99

    Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and...

    Noam Chomsky: Rogue States [2000] paperback

    €12.99€24.27

    Noam Chomsky argues that, contrary to popular perception, the real 'rogue' states in the world today are not the dictator-led developing countries we hear about in the news, but the...

    Xinyuan (University of Illinois, Ur Dai: International Institutions and National Policies [2007] hardback

    €4.99

    The proliferation of international institutions and their impact has become a central issue in international relations. Why do countries comply with international agreements and how do international institutions influence national...

    Hammad Isabella: Recognising the Stranger [2024] paperback

    €11.99

    *FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF ENTER GHOST*'Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose.' SALLY ROONEY'A pitch-perfect example of how the...

    Dermot Lucey: Modern Europe and the Wider World [2004] paperback

    €6.99€44.29

    Written and illustrated with both Higher and Ordinary level students in mind.Modern Europe and the Wider World covers three syllabus topics, two of which students must select for study: -...

    Niheer Dasandi: IS DEMOCRACY FAILING W25 [2018] paperback

    €9.99

    The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do...

    Peter Conrad: Mythomania [2016] hardback

    €19.99

    Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined...

    Buettner and Susanne Craig Russ: Lucky Loser [2024] paperback

    €20.99

    Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the history of Trump's wealth, drawing on over twenty years' worth of Trump's confidential tax information, business records and interviews with Trump insiders.Soon...

    Stephanie Baker: Punishing Putin [2024] paperback

    €12.99€19.99

    'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping' Catherine Belton...

    Ritchie Hannah: Not the End of the World [2024] paperback

    €12.99

    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER **Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -...

    Thant Myint-U: The Hidden History of Burma [2020] hardback

    €8.99€27.13

    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William...

    Bruce Schneier: CLICK HERE TO KILL EVERYBODY W43 [2018] hardback

    €14.99

    We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars...

    Sean Wilentz: The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and has made possible...

    Bruce W. Jentleson: The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship [2018] hardback

    €9.99

    In The Peacemakers Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights and promoted global sustainability....

    Mark Urban: EDGE -Z25 [2015] paperback

    €5.99

    The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is hampering international cooperation and fuelling conflict everywhere. The west's...

    Evan Davis: Post-Truth: Peak Bullshit - and What We Can Do About It [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from...

    Chris Bryant: Code Of Conduct [2023] hardback

    €12.99

    THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSLongstanding Labour MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of what went so wrong with Westminster - and how...

    Jonathan White: In The Long Run [2024] hardback

    €22.99

    'Exhilarating' Financial Times'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling' Literary Review'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its...

    Henry Dimbleby: Ravenous [2024] paperback

    €12.99

    WINNER OF THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2024THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector'Ravenous is a truly important...

    Edward Said: Power, Politics, and Culture [2005] paperback

    €6.99€27.13

    _______________'A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of contemporary culture and values' - Nadine Gordimer'Lucid, passionate ......

    David Remnick: The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama [2010] hardback

    €2.99

    The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. Until now, no journalist...

    Malcolm Nance: The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West [2018] hardback

    €7.99

    In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first...

    Nic Cheeseman: HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION W43 [2019] paperback

    €6.99

    An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are...

    Alan Abramowitz: GREAT ALIGNMENT W43 [2019] paperback

    €8.99

    The most in-depth analysis to date of America's current political polarization and the forces that led to a Trump presidency Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for...

    Nick Thorpe: ROAD BEFORE ME WEEPS W43 [2019] hardback

    €14.99

    A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness...

    Jon Coaffee: FUTURE PROOF W43 [2019] hardback

    €12.99

    A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple...

    Tarek Osman: ISLAMISM Z21 [2016] hardback

    €7.99

    An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those...

    Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present [2015] hardback

    €9.99

    A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankind's broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance...

    Ramita Navai: CITY OF LIES Z25 [2014] hardback

    €6.99€9.99

    This is real Tehran: a city that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and subterfuge.It is a place where...

    Mark Hertsgaard: The Eagle's Shadow [2002] hardback

    €7.99€18.56

    How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? So ignorant of foreign lands, peoples and languages yet so certain it knows what's best for everyone? How can its...

    Michael Bywater: Big Babies [2006] hardback

    €8.99€21.41

    Have you ever had the feeling that, in some hard to define way, we are throwing away two and a half millennia of Western civilization, bit by bit, as our...

    Francis Fukuyama: END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN Z44 [2012] paperback

    €5.99

    THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. 20th anniversary edition of The End of History and the Last Man, a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of The...

    Jeremy Rivkin: The Zero Marginal Cost Society [2015] hardback

    €12.99€31.41

    The capitalist era is passing - not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's...

    Ben Dupre: 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know [2011] hardback

    €5.99€7.99

    At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater.The forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism...

    Seth Abramson: Proof of Collusion [2018] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election...

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