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Blaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: welcome to the ugly world of Good Mother mythsWhen Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mo...

Blaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: welcome to the ugly world of Good Mother mythsWhen Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mo...

In dispatches written from around the world, Anne-christine d’Adesky reports on the greatest challenge facing us today: the global effort to provid...

Muhammad is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries. Drawing on a variety of Is...

In pursuit of the liberating powers of the crowdDespite what politicians, philosophers and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd is not...

In pursuit of the liberating powers of the crowdFrom raucous football matches and raves to rubber-bullet-riddled riots, Hancox takes us into the cr...

A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell TowerUrgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the natio...

Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. O...

"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."–Adam Shatz, The New York TimesPoetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated b...

In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in...

Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of establish...

Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial PrizeA new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalismDespite insoluble contr...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succ...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succ...

“We who have been colonized can never forget”Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles fo...

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words Hugo Chávez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Lati...

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only dec...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain...

Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progressMythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories w...

In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s...

A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of SpainIn this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14)...

This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on dr...

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV...