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Material girls
'Material Girls' presents a timely and opinionated critique of the culturally influential theory that we each have an inner feeling about our sex called a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our actual biological sex. It makes a clear and humane feminist case for retaining the ability to discuss material reality about biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization, and data collection.
£10.99
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Statecraft
In an era of instability and global competition, Statecraft offers a vital guide to understanding how states succeed, no matter their size.
£22.00
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The Challenges of Democracy
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today - from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech.
£10.99
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The Science of Racism
How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to one of society's most pressing questions.
£10.99
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me
£6.99
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Freedom
The important and intimate political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
£12.99
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The Hour of the Predator
'The Hour of the Predator' is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional governments find themselves increasingly outmatched by technology tycoons and autocratic strongmen: geopolitical predators who shape the world through brute force, deception, and disruption. Drawing on his experience as a political advisor to a former Italian Prime Minister, Da Empoli takes the reader on an eye-opening journey around the international political circuit - from New York to Riyadh, and from the United Nations to Mohammed bin Salman's Ritz-Carlton - and through the looking glass to a world of ruthless power struggles, where the tech lords already seem to inhabit another world and AI is already out of control.
£12.99
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The Revolutionists
In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the beautiful young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking philanderer Carlos the Jackal sporting shades and open-neck shirts, and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. They sought to liberate the Palestinians and overthrow western imperialism, orchestrating spectacularly violent attacks that held governments to ransom and the world gripped to their television screens. Drawing on decades of research, declassified archive material and original interviews with witnesses and participants, Jason Burke provides a masterful account of their exploits over the course of this dark decade.
£30.00
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If Russia Wins
March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war? In 'If Russia Wins', military expert and Professor of International Relations at the University of Munich, Carlo Masala explores these questions and underlines what is at stake in Ukraine in the starkest possible terms. For those of us who have only ever known peace, we are accustomed to everything turning out well in the end. But what if it doesn't?
£9.99
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Is Free Speech Under Threat?
One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? Two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars. Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance - most notably on university campuses and online - that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses. Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever b
£10.99
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Ungovernable
The first insider account of life as a chief whip inside Westminster, from MP Simon Hart, who has served under Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
£10.99
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Fractured France
The French have always loved to protest, to strike, to take to the streets in rebellion against the state or the status quo. But in the last few years, the level of anger and violence has taken many by surprise and the atmosphere has changed. The voices of hostility are not only from the extreme far-right, but from the ordinary French who feel excluded from the closed circle of wealth and privilege within the prospering cities. In this fascinating book, Andrew Hussey uncovers the past and present of the culture of the working class in France, a culture invisible to most tourists and ignored by the metropolitan classes.
£25.00
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A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
Professor David Wilson is renowned for deciphering the hidden motives of murderers and the context in which crimes took place. In 'The History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders', he zooms out to look at the big picture, examining what multiple murders across a range of eras can tell us about our past - and our present. Told in Wilson's absorbing style, this is a fresh look at crimes and points in history we think we know.
£25.00
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Prisoners of geography
The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, now fully updated with brand new content to reflect the changing global geopolitical landscape since it was first published in 2015
£10.99
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Let's Be Honest
Can you imagine a world where politics functioned, every politician told the truth, and the government cared about the electorate more than elections? Although it feels like an impossible dream, it should be reality. With humour and candour Jess Phillips exposes what's going wrong - and what we can do about it. From culture wars to clickbait, it's fair to say that politics has been reduced to electioneering, and we're all suffering as a result. If it wasn't destroying the country, it would almost be funny. But we have let our standards drop - and it's time to raise our expectations and demand better. Jess Phillips believes in democracy, and the people she meets give her cause for optimism even if many of the politicians really (really) don't.
£10.99
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Strangeland
At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK - and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. What is the Britain he's come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours. 'Strangeland' is Jon's account of how much that has changed.
£14.99
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No Way Out
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER?'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMESThe unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman's #1 bestselling Brexit quartet.
£12.99
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Now What?
A political diary like no other, from presenter, journalist and activist Carol Vorderman.
£12.99
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Downfall
14 YEARS 5 PRIME MINISTERSTHE PARTY IS OVER
£10.99
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Muslims Don't Matter
Modern Britain has seen an insidious rise in Islamophobia on both the right and the left. From misleading media stories like the Trojan Horse Affair in Birmingham's schools to the hatred directed at Muslim politicians and public figures during the Gaza conflict, this prejudice has gone frighteningly unchecked. This isn't a surprise given that our political leaders can't even bring themselves to use the word Islamophobia. In 'Muslims Don't Matter', Conservative peer, campaigner and podcaster Sayeeda Warsi unapologetically challenges the consensus, argues passionately that bigotry should never pass the dinner table test and urges Britain to change course.
£10.99
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Murderland
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and 80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem - the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson - Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma, stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was only one among many that dotted the area.
£25.00
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When the Clock Broke
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated and US power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a 'kinder, gentler America.' Instead, it was a period of punishing economic hardship, rising anger and domestic strife, setting the tone for the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. The early 1990s climate of despair was weaponized by con men, conspiracists and racists - notably the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke - both in the wider culture and at the ballot box. In other words, they sought to 'break the clock' of progress and 'repeal the twentieth century'. They gave Americans' resentment a shape and direction, and forged a new kind of paranoid, conspiratorial politcs. In this book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of the conspiratorial politics that birthed Donald Trump's America.
£12.99
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Autocracy, Inc
Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources - the troll farms that promote one dictator's propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another - and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn't operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies: Autocracy, Inc.
£12.99
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The Playbook
1935. Franklin D. Roosevelt is under pressure to combat the skyrocketing levels of unemployment in post-war America. He announces a sweeping range of revolutionary initiatives, known collectively as the New Deal. Among these initiatives is a landmark programme designed to bring innovative, experimental theatre to the American masses. The Federal Theatre Project staged critically acclaimed and wildly popular productions across America - including Orson Welles' directorial debut, a landmark early modern dance programme, and shows that sought to tell the truth about racism, poverty and the rising tides of fascism. From one of the world's great storytellers, 'Playbook' is an invigorating re-enactment of a terrifyingly prescient moment in 20th-century American cultural history, the dimensions of which echo through every democracy today.
£12.99
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