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Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?The rich are not like us. Great wealth brings both power and immunity, a pairing that open...

Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casua...

Catastrophe or Catharsis? Lays bare the reasons why the Soviet economic reform has plunged into crisis. In precise, vivid prose, Menshikov describe...

Since coming to power in 1998, the Chavez government has inspired both fierce internal debate and horror amongst Western governments accustomed to ...

"If you want to understand the long path to the climate crisis, read this book." –Deborah Coen, Professor of History and the History of Science and...

Who do the police protect? An investigation into 40 years of battling protest that reveals a hidden police agenda against dissent. Charged is an...

A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentat...

In this elegant and original book, Regis Debray argues that for two hundred years the defeats of the left have stemmed from its failure to understa...

Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of C...

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo...

The classic graphic biography of Che Guevara—the most iconic revolutionary of the twentieth centuryThis dramatic and extensively researched book br...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che’s right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cub...

The Case for Chechnya sharply criticizes the role of Western nations in their struggle, and lays bare the weakness—and shamefulness—of the argument...

The Case for Chechnya sharply criticizes the role of Western nations in their struggle, and lays bare the weakness—and shamefulness—of the argument...

A global future in the history of a single villageAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and liter...

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern worldChina’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic...

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable?...

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable?...

For over twenty-five years Noam Chomsky’s prolific political intervention has enlightened and inspired radicals while enraging their opponents in t...

A luminous biography of one of the last century’s most influential historiansChristopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. ...

A luminous biography of one of the last century’s most influential historiansChristopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. ...

This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church—from the E...