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    Alex Edmans: May Contain Lies [2024] hardback

    €24.70

    'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, Financial Times'Not only brilliantly researched and written...

    Daniel Drache: One Road, Many Dreams [2019] hardback

    €12.99

    One Belt, One Road is China's bold plan to remake the global economy. It's an ambitious strategy with a $2 trillion - and rising - budget. The objective? To challenge...

    Alex Adams: How to Justify Torture [2019] paperback

    €5.99

    If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to...

    Nathaile Olah: Steal as Much as You Can [2019] paperback

    €6.99

    The 2010s have been a double-edged decade. Socioeconomic factors have led to the widespread and increased disenfranchisement of poorer people from the mainstream media and the institutions shaping it. This...

    Alex Niven: New Model Island [2019] paperback

    €6.99

    In the early twenty-firstcentury, 'Englishness' suddenly became a hot topic. A rash of art exhibitions,pop albums and coffee table books arrived on the scene, all desperate to recoverEngland's lost national...

    Repeater: Regeneration Songs [2018] paperback

    €4.99

    The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital,...

    Elaine Glaser: Anti-Politics [2018] paperback

    €4.99

    In recent years, the West has seen a rising tide of populist and anti-political feeling. Figures like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have gained power by distancing themselves from "the...

    Aswany Alaa Al: The Dictatorship Syndrome [2019] hardback

    €9.99

    The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them,...

    Peter Hennessy: Reflections [2019] hardback

    €9.99

    Accompanying the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 program, Reflections features interviews with twelve of Britain's most influential political figures from the last twenty years. Presented by Peter Hennessy, one of the...

    Bruce (Counterpane Internet Se Schneier: Liars and Outliers [2012] hardback

    €12.99€27.13

    In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system....

    Muhammad Yunus: A World of Three Zeroes [2017] paperback

    €7.99

    The capitalist system, in its current form, is broken. Here, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for fixing it.Eight individuals now own more wealth than 50 per...

    Paul Verhaeghe: Says Who? [2017] paperback

    €7.99

    'We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared ... traditional authority is lapsing into brute force ... and we ourselves must take the first steps towards...

    Billy Kenber: Sick Money [2021] trade paper back

    €13.99

    The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left...

    Geoff Mulgan: Good and Bad Power [2007] paperback

    €6.99€22.84

    How can we make the governments on which we depend for our welfare and survival behave like servants rather than masters? This is the oldest question in politics. It has...

    Phil Elwood: All The Worst Humans [2024] paperback

    €17.99

    'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down.' - Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for SmokingThe man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now...

    Verso: The WikiLeaks Files [2016] paperback

    €3.99€6.99

    WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly...

    Marcus Gilory-Ware: Filling the Void [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media...

    Douglasy Murphy: Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson [2017] paperback

    €4.99

    In a world where the built environment seems ever more shaped by invisible market forces, where modern architecture can seem to dissolve into a generic void, sometimes it takes a...

    Ulrik Skotte: The Umbrella Murder [2024] paperback

    €19.99

    London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous...

    Eric Schlosser: Command and Control [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful...

    Noam Cohen: The Know-It-Alls [2019] paperback

    €4.99€14.99

    The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold. Yet, at the outset,...

    Norm Chung: The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the World's Craziest Politicians [2014] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world s craziest politicians contains 300 caricatures and profiles drawn from every...

    Rachel Reeves: Alice in Westminster [2018] paperback

    €7.99€22.84

    Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for...

    Paul Morland: No One Left [2024] hardback

    €24.99

    A population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too...

    James Comey: A Higher Loyalty [2018] hardback

    €14.99€26.00

    The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told...

    Evan Osnos: Wildland [2021] trade paper back

    €7.99€19.50

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ......

    Raymond Williams: May Day Manifesto 1968 [2018] paperback

    €4.99€7.99

    The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1967 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson,...

    Gretchen. Peters: Seeds of Terror [2010] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn billions of pounds every year off...

    Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed [2002] paperback

    €6.99€12.84

    Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, in order to find out how anyone survives on six to seven...

    Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near [2024] paperback

    €21.99

    In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilisation where humans...

    Dan Davies: The Unaccountability Machine [2024] hardback

    €24.99

    'Entertaining, insightful ... compelling' Financial Times'Clear and compelling ... it will make you look at the world differently' Stephen BushWhen we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In...

    John Simpson: Unreliable Sources [2011] paperback

    €4.99€28.57

    Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism, John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable and trusted British personalities, but has transferred his skill to books with multiple...

    Adam Plowright: The French Exception [2017] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just...

    Dharshini David: Environomics [2024] paperback

    €22.10

    'Opens our eyes to the everyday contributions all of us make to how the world is changing.' Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography 'A much needed blend of optimism...

    David Miliband: Rescue [2017] hardback

    €3.99€4.99

    'A THOUGHTFUL, CAREFULLY ARGUED AND MORALLY PERSUASIVE CASE FOR DOING MORE' FINANCIAL TIMES 'PART CALL TO ARMS, PART COLLECTION OF STORIES (INCLUDING HIS OWN), IT IS A POWERFUL INVITATION TO...

    Suzy Hansen: Notes on a Foreign Country [2018] hardback

    €6.99€7.99

    'A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world.' Hisham Matar, New York Times Book ReviewIn the wake of...

    Jonathan Tepperman: The Fix [2016] paperback

    €4.99€9.99

    Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2016From immigration reform to energy resources, from political paralysis to inequality and extremism, we are beset by a raft of...

    John Maher: Introducing Chomsky [1999] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    Linguist Noam Chomsky's controversial theories maintain that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a universal grammar, a theory of principles...

    Todd G Buchholz: The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them [2016] hardback

    €7.99€9.99

    In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for...

    Bartlett: The People Vs Tech [2018] paperback

    €4.99€11.70

    **Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize****Longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing**'A superb book by one of the world's leading experts on the digital revolution' David Patrikarakos, Literary...

    Craig Oliver: Unleashing Demons [2016] hardback

    €6.99€9.99

    MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR'ESSENTIAL' Sunday Times'HIS SOLDIER'S DISPATCH IS EASY TO READ AND VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATES A SENSE OF RISING PANIC AND EMBATTLEMENT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW...

    Andrew Kirtzman: Giuliani [2023] paperback

    €9.99

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year What happened to Rudy Giuliani? Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this "masterful and...

    Angus Hanton: Vassal State [2024] hardback

    €24.99

    'Provocative and detailed ... Excellent' The Telegraph'Shocking and meticulous' Danny Dorling'An eye-opening revelation ... a must-read' Joel BakanBritish politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship'...

    Noam (Massachusetts Institute O Chomsky: On Western Terrorism [2017] paperback

    €22.10

    Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all-the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and...

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