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An extraordinary novel about one of history’s most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biographyFor three decades, until the da...

In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomen...

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsArnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’...

"This book is a must read for students of contemporary capitalism."—Kathi Weeks, Duke University"Why do people fight for their exploitation as if i...

"You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story–I couldn’t put it down."–Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and ProphetOn the...

"You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story–I couldn’t put it down."–Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and ProphetOn the...

A major account of the failings of the European Union—and why it has to goThe European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to...

Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham’s swingeing study explains why the ...

How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth Our planet’s elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence a...

For years, the discipline of economics has been moving steadily away from the real world towards formalized axioms and mathematical models with onl...

The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, ...

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of TrotskyLeonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his l...

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers ...

The 1870s in France – Rimbaud’s moment, and the subject of this book – is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it w...

The Empire of Civil Society mounts a compelling critique of the orthodox “realist” theory of international relations and provides a historical-mate...

The Empire of Civil Society mounts a compelling critique of the orthodox "realist" theory of international relations and provides a historical-mate...

In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more t...

In this seminal book, Alain Lipietz, one of France’s most distinguished Marxist economists, explores the role of money and credit in the causes of ...

How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside DarwinIn this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply...

This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair’s modernizing tendency was profoundly mista...

The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make yo...

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERThe problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself. Why we need to defund the police and how we get there.Recent we...

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to IslamophobiaThe best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish Peop...