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  • A Promised Land

    The powerful political memoir from the former US President

    by Barack Obama ...
    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making?a record-breaking, critically acclaimed no.1 bestseller.'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on SundayIn the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama recounts his journey from a young man searching for his identity to the 44th president of the United ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Adults In The Room

    My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    ** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment?World-famous economist and former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on his battle with EU officials over the Greek debt crisis.Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political ... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award

    by Omar El Akkad ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • No Is Not Enough

    Defeating the New Shock Politics

    by Naomi Klein ...
    **The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle AlexanderNaomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bull... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Autocracy, Inc

    The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Power of Geography

    Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World – the sequel to Prisoners of Geography

    by Tim Marshall ...
    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year’ Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has.**In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ... Read more

    9,32 €

  • POLITICAL PARTIES

    A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies

    by Robert Michels ...
    First published in German in 1911, Robert Michels’ ‘Political Parties’ is a classic of political and social science; it analyses the evolution of oligarchical power structures within political parties and trade unions, particularly those, ostensibly, most committed to egalitarian and democratic ideals — socialist parties, organisations and trade unions — including anarcho-syndicalist labour unions ... Read more

    1,72 €

  • Disorder

    Hard Times in the 21st Century

    by Helen Thompson ...
    Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilised the Middle East, ruptured ... Read more

    16,21 €

  • Network Propaganda

    Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

    by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has ... Read more

    29,99 €

  • After Nations

    The Making and Unmaking of a World Order

    by Rana Dasgupta ...
    'The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan’ EMMANUELE COCCIAWhat has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.Until recently, the system of nation-states appeared settled and eternal. Not anymore. As American hegemony unwinds and Western ... Read more

    21,93 €

  • De Mannen van Poetin

    by Catherine Belton ...
    In De mannen van Poetin onthult onderzoeksjournalist en voormalig correspondent in Moskou Catherine Belton het verhaal over de machtsgreep van Vladimir Poetin en zijn KGB-trawanten. Mede aan de hand van exclusieve interviews met belangrijke insiders vertelt Belton hoe de mannen van Poetin een nieuwe club van oligarchen vormden, zich meedogenloos allerlei bedrijven toe-eigenden, de economie ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Weimar Years

    Rise and Fall 1918-1933

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEKA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Astonishing. A masterful account of the Weimar Republic that is the best I have ever read' - Peter Frankopan'Magisterial, terrifyingly relevant and yet also a ... ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • Fight Oligarchy

    Where We Go From Here

    by Bernie Sanders ...
    Today, Trump’s USA is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires. As inequalities grow starker and authoritarianism takes hold, people are deprived of both the basic necessities of life and the right to hold to account the ever-smaller number of corporations in whose hands wealth and power are vested. What’s more, throughout the world, wherever you look it’s the ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • How Will Capitalism End?

    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contempo�rary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is on the cusp of enormous change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of the Second World War, is unravelling. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed, ... Read more

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia

    A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad.Combining in-depth research and interviews with his ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Don't Talk About Politics

    How to Change 21st-Century Minds

    by Sarah Stein Lubrano ...
    'THIS BOOK CHANGED THE WAY I TALK ABOUT POLITICS.' GRACE BLAKELEY, AUTHOR OF VULTURE CAPITALISMDemocracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people's minds. It doesn't.This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our ... Read more

    Was 14,41 € Now 9,21 €

  • Erasing History

    How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    by Jason Stanley ...
    From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality and class.Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our modern political landscape, Erasing History issues a dire warning for the world: the worst fascist movements of ... Read more

    6,14 €

  • Fratelli di chat

    Storia segreta del partito di Giorgia Meloni

    by Giacomo Salvini, Marco Travaglio ...
    La storia mai raccontata del partito di Giorgia Meloni attraverso le chat dei parlamentari, ministri e dirigenti di Fratelli d’Italia. Dalla guerra a Matteo Salvini al parricidio nei confronti di Silvio Berlusconi fino ai litigi tra compagni di partito a colpi di insulti, tradimenti e “infami” che passano le notizie ai giornali. Ma anche i retroscena inediti sulla caduta di Mario Draghi e la ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • On Politics

    by Alan Ryan ...
    This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question:how should human beings best govern themselves? That question raises innumerable others: can we manage our own affairs at all? Should we even try? Many people in the past have thought that only some individuals were either able or entitled to ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • The Dream Shall Never Die

    100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever

    by Alex Salmond ...
    The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In September 2014, he came close to realising that dream.In a riveting daily diary, written with his trademark wit and charm, Salmond ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • The Great Delusion

    Liberal Dreams and International Realities

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to failNamed a Financial Times Best Book of 2018“Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.”—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s WorldIt is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democra... ... Read more

    14,87 €

  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Wunderland

    Die Gründerzeit der Bundesrepublik 1955–1967 | "Ein Höhepunkt dieses Bücherherbstes, ebenso unterhaltsam wie klug." Süddeutsche Zeitung

    by Harald Jähner ...
    Kaum sind die Trümmer weggeräumt, setzt in Deutschland ein Wirtschaftsaufschwung ohnegleichen ein, auch ein nimmersatter Kaufrausch: Möbel, Autos, Reisen, Elektrogeräte. Mit dem Rock 'n' Roll erfasst die Jugend ein neues Lebensgefühl. 1957 eröffnet der erste Supermarkt, der Siegeszug der Discounter beginnt. Der Fernseher gruppiert die Wohnzimmer um. – Und plötzlich stellen sich neue Fragen: Wie ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Mij krijgen ze niet klein

    by Marjolein Faber ...
    Mijn elf maanden op het ministerie van Asiel en Migratie zijn op zijn zachtst gezegd niet onopgemerkt gebleven. Op het departement hoorde ik dat ze nog nooit hadden meegemaakt dat een bewindspersoon zó onder vuur kwam te liggen. Nog maar net begonnen kwam er een haatmachine op gang van ongekende proporties. En het ging niet alleen om mijn persoon. Bij voorbaat was men gekant tegen iedere mogelijke ... Read more

    10,99 €