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A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matterDifferences between England’s North and South continue to shape national politics, ...

A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matterDifferences between England’s North and South continue to shape national politics, ...

Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of José Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US...

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models ...

Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. B...

In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the ...

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the...

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’...

An expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism’s origins—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested ...

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce.In...

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the n...

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new editionIn this provocative and now-classic w...

Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they se...

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-EuropeanIn this distillation of reflections accumulated from a life...

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Shortlisted for the 2023 Mo...

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Shortlisted for the 2023 Mo...

The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon MarblesThe Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and ex...

The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon MarblesThe Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and ex...

The Fall of the Tory PartyDespite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It n...

In this ambitious work, Giacomo Marramao proposes a radical reconceptualization of the world system in our era of declining state sovereignty. He a...

Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified ...

Despite predictions of the “death of the past” and the “end of history,” the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first centur...

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet videoThe wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the M...