
509: The People Have Spoken
This book is an anthology of essays recording debates and discourses that took place leading up to the 14th General Election, the historic election...
View full detailsThis book is an anthology of essays recording debates and discourses that took place leading up to the 14th General Election, the historic election...
View full detailsAmerican Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...
View full detailsBeginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, vi...
View full detailsLim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Si...
View full detailsEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangibl...
View full detailsTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking th...
View full detailsOccupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world's most prominent political di...
View full detailsIn 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from t...
View full detailsThe EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayli...
View full detailsWhat extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...
View full detailsIncreasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken...
View full detailsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of ...
View full detailsIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected presi...
View full detailsTen years on from the financial crash, and we are still bad with money. We press 'cash only' at ATMs, and accept that we'll be paying back our stud...
View full detailsRemember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And...
View full detailsIn February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had be...
View full detailsEurope is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from thos...
View full detailsThe successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community org...
View full detailsRussian Roulette is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber ...
View full detailsSome questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can...
View full detailsIn this volume of fresh essays and published articles, Chua Mui Hoong, political columnist and Opinion editor of The Straits Times takes on issues ...
View full detailsIn his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed i...
View full detailsPeter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. Th...
View full detailsIn The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlin...
View full detailsAccording to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the ...
View full detailsGeorge Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn wa...
View full detailsBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. B...
View full detailsIn the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, “Martin Gurri saw it coming.” Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of ...
View full detailsThis book — an ethnography of inequality — addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but h...
View full detailsTo understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weakn...
View full detailsIn Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every mi...
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