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Thirty never-before-collected essays—many of them profiles—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and The Plague Year. These brilliant pieces reveal the broad spectrum of Wright’s cultural and political observations over the past...

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution. The 2013-14 Ukrainian...

Brought to you by Penguin. The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's...

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In the spirit of On Tyranny, a ten-point plan for how feminist principles can be harnessed to combat totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism. Far-right authoritarians have been rising to power around the world. Each election won and each rung of power snatched from the people is a...

The untold story of how propaganda and power struggles toppled the Roman Republic – once the world’s most powerful democracy. In 49BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon and Rome fell into a brutal civil war. The institutions that gave its people a voice crumbled and, after the dust settled, Rome...

With the in-depth reportage and insightful analysis of American Carnage, Front Row at the Trump Show, and Confidence Man, a seasoned TIME reporter’s authoritative narrative history of the MAGA movement—a freshly reported “how did we get here” chronicle that traces the political DNA and...

Una selección que aúna tres textos clásicos sobre socialismo y liberación: El Manifiesto Comunista, de Marx y Engels; Reforma o Revolución, de Rosa Luxemburgo; y El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba, del Che Guevara, inspiradores para las nuevas generaciones que creen en una sociedad más...

A book that will launch a million debates. Constitutional law professor Kent Greenfield delivers the highly provocative yet carefully reasoned case for secession, arguing that the fractures within the US run so deep, rendering our politics so dysfunctional, that the best way to heal is to...

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical, and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century. Palestine is a litmus test - the repercussions of which will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the world, argues writer...

Brought to you by Penguin. A riveting account of the 1973 oil crisis that upended the global economy and reshaped geopolitics for good. In 1973, King Faisal repeatedly warned America that if it continued its support of Israel, he would cut the global supply of oil. On October 5th, he made good...

Philip Gourevitch's unforgettable modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbours in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch brings us a staggeringly vivid and intimate exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness.

Brought to you by Penguin. A sweeping, resonant, revelatory history of how the expropriation of property made the modern world, by a brilliant young historian Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent...

Der Enthüllungsjournalist Claas Meyer-Heuer hat tausende Nachrichten dieser Art gelesen. Er taucht tief ein in die verborgene Parallelwelt und zeigt, wie Ermittler durch die Entschlüsselung der Kryptosysteme die brutalen Strukturen der Drogenmafia offenlegen. Dieses Buch gibt exklusive Einblicke in die Abgründe der Unterwelt, beleuchtet die rechtlichen Grauzonen der beispiellosen Ermittlungen und geht der Frage nach, warum das Geschäft trotz tausender Festnahmen weiter boomt.

The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world - while plundering our physical one. Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now...

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin...

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very...

The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative'...