Secondhand Current Affairs Books

'Entertaining... Sane about much of the madness that grips us today' TLS'An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and who gains from demonising a generation.' GUARDIAN___________________________________________________________________________________Is 'cancel culture'...

'The powerful new voice of her generation'The Times'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie-------A...

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...

Amaranta Wright was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin America. Her brief was to befriend teenagers and report back with every aspect...

'Stuart Weir is the first Englishman since Thomas Paine to understand the word "freedom".' - Greg Palast, author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Britain is a divided society...

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores...

A Financial Times Book of the Year, Chris Patten's What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century is a frank and witty survey of our geopolitical future. At the start of the...

The voice of reason in a world that won't shut up.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Parliamentary Book AwardsEvery day, James O'Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing...

Long standing editor of Vanity Fair, and hailed as the King of New York, Graydon Carter has turned his attention from Hollywood's finest to spearheading his own campaign to change...

'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim...

Dwindling resources, massive population shifts, natural disasters, spreading epidemics, drought, rising sea levels, plummeting agricultural yields, crashing economies, political extremism - these are just some of the expected consequences of...

For every great historical event, at least one reporter writes an eye-opening account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds -...

'...excellent: concise and clear. Overall, this is a recommended source book, well-planned, presented and edited.' Alan Jenkins, British Book News

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...

"A modern conservative classic." - Sean Hannity "Men in Black couldn't be more timely or important....a tremendously important and compelling book." - Rush Limbaugh "One of the finest books on...

Oneof the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how...

'This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else'. So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are...

In "The Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman, one of the US' most respected economists and outspoken commentators, lays out his vision of a New Deal for a fairer society....

In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves...

The book that offers a cure for affluenza, 'No Logo' is one of those rare books that defines a generation, the most significant one since Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'. By...

Revised and updated to cover the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and the Arab Spring. The departure of the last US troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left...

An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty...

DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following...

The world economy is now approaching the final death rattle of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history: a scheme in which politicians stood by as the financial industry and Sovereign...

The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central...

'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey'Cooly prosecutorial' GuardianNobody meant for this to happen.Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide.Twitter didn't want to be used to...

Strange Days Indeed, by Francis Wheen. The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories of loons and disco, Abba and Fawlty Towers. However, beneath the long hair it was really...

With its gutsy, creative and rousing tales of ordinary people creating extraordinary change, "Small Acts of Resistance" proves that it is possible - armed with a little ingenuity and a...