Politics

(Available after 3-20 days)David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversiesWhen leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s Grundrisse - his preparatory...

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied...

ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of...

Discover how our big social, political and ethical ideas are formed with The Philosophy Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Philosophy in this...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University...

Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank,’ the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record U.S. fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for ‘drug...

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist.The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From...

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker ’s rising stars.I’d seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up,...

No singular life is as seminal to the struggle for equality as Frantz Fanon's. Here we have a comprehensive biography tracking his momentous life and his lasting impact into the modern era, where he's more relevant than ever.One of The New York...

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and...

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging.   Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne...

The acclaimed author of modern classic Sapiens turns his attention to the power of information networks and their importance to human evolution in this insightful and entertaining tour de force. The phenomenal international and Sunday...

Special agents. Wide-spread terror. An impossible mission. This is a study of 1989 Panama from the author of our former Monthly Pick, Ghosts of Honolulu. The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon...

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.   The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came...

This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers has long been an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and...

Volume 1 of the classic anthology of political thought: a comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Montesquieu. As an introduction to political theory and science, this standout collection...

Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California;...

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren’t falling for any election year claptrap—and they don’t want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to...

Discover the ground-breaking, must-read history of Africa, the Sunday Times bestseller charting the epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from the perspectives of Africans themselves. Shortlisted for the Nero Book...

Digging deeper into the concept of ugliness and the human body than you’ve probably ever gone before, this exhaustive examination of such a complex topic is rich with social and cultural commentary."A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely...