
A Promised Land
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man...
View full detailsIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man...
View full detailsNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...
View full detailsIn his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artifi...
View full detailsAir-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singap...
View full details'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about hum...
View full detailsFor several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs...
View full detailsThe chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation....
View full detailsWhen Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea following his father's death in 2011, predictions about his imminent fall were rife. North Korea ...
View full detailsBusinesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all,...
View full detailsAmazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines...
View full detailsAn immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th ...
View full detailsThe expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness ...
View full detailsChina's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi ...
View full detailsClimate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a reno...
View full detailsLife expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row--a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in...
View full detailsA clear-eyed guide to demagoguery--and how we can defeat it What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pande...
View full detailsNusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and ...
View full detailsDuring the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge,...
View full detailsA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer...
View full detailsTo predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy...
View full detailsAcross Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945. Right-wing street movement...
View full details'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...
View full detailsWhat was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The av...
View full detailsWhat is the meaning of Mahathir Mohamad’s return as Prime Minister of Malaysia? And what does it mean for the future of the country? In From High H...
View full detailsThai politics have been intensely polarized since demonstrations against the government of then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra began in 2005. Co...
View full detailsIt has never been more important for business leaders to look to the future. Yet, when we are living through some of the most uncertain times we ha...
View full detailsBritish politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment. In Futures of Sociali...
View full detailsSingapore’s 2020 general election saw its fair share of drama and comedy, and the results were not unexpected. But beyond the polls, the hard truth...
View full detailsBy day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she w...
View full detailsIn this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve th...
View full detailsProfessor S. Jayakumar, a former minister, diplomat and law dean, shares his candid views on many facets of Singapore’s governance, including fasci...
View full detailsGreat Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, ...
View full detailsThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of gene...
View full detailsThe defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome a...
View full detailsThe Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It sees only a bitter ideolo...
View full detailsHong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to t...
View full detailstranslated by Alex Valente Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy...
View full detailsFirst published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having...
View full detailstranslated by Alastair McEwen and Richard Dixon We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. B...
View full detailsBryan Stevenson has committed his career to fighting wrongful convictions, systemic poverty, and mass incarceration—here, he shares the lessons he'...
View full detailsIncarcerated for more than twenty-seven years, Nelson Mandela's enduring faith and rise to leadership remains an inspiration to all. With stories f...
View full detailsMuch has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom ...
View full detailsBeneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the...
View full detailsPresident-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political c...
View full detailsAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern w...
View full detailsThe world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism dema...
View full detailsOver the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation mig...
View full detailsAn accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies. Macroeconomics takes a broad perspect...
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