Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
13.99 USD
Category: History & Politics
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
6.30 USD
12.59 (49% off)
Category: History & Politics
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively toward ...Show more
After the Fact? - The Truth about Fake News by Marcus Gilroy-Ware
14.78 USD
16.95 (12% off)
Category: History & Politics
Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here. We are supposed to have more information at our disposal n ...Show more
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
6.30 USD
12.59 (49% off)
Category: History & Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
6.13 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: History & Politics
'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capit ...Show more
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Daniel Susskind
9.63 USD
15.39 (37% off)
Category: History & Politics
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawye ...Show more
Understanding Statebuilding - Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland by Rebecca Richards
17.50 USD
62.95 (72% off)
Category: History & Politics
Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone 'wrong' in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone 'right' in non-interventionist statebuilding projects within 'unrecognised' states. By examining th ...Show more
A Modern History of the Somali - Nation and State in the Horn of Africa by Lewis, I.m.
15.76 USD
25.20 (37% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Eastern African Studies
The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingenuity with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of modernity. North America: Ohio U Press
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Blood Oil - Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World by Leif Wenar
14.88 USD
24.95 (40% off)
Category: History & Politics
Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression; militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization and ammunition. Resource-fueledauthoritarians ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Means For Women by Christina Lamb
12.25 USD
28.01 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has w ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
4.90 USD
13.99 (64% off)
Category: History & Politics
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more