Amongst the plethora of recent books on the threats facing liberal democracy, this one stands out for the author's talent for making complex subjects comprehensible. He sees the danger comin... read more
... and statistics - their use and misuse is legendary, and confusing: TH is a whizz at clearing the obfuscations and shows what brilliant tools numbers can be.
By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
Recounts seven decades of activities, with interviews that include most of the surviving former heads of the CIA and discussions of the Agency's role in containing presidential powers. Revel... read more
The veteran journalist reviews the current US presidency, in all its baffling volatility, basing himself on several exclusive interviews and a wealth of documentary evidence.
Boreal forests in Europa, Asia and North America account for a third of the world's trees and are essential for life on this planet. Less than 12% is protected... Large format, with stunning... read more
Recent illness has prompted this new book from Snyder, author of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Road to Unfreedom'. Health is not recognised as a human right in the US, but, he argues, what's the use... read more
Varoufakis will stir controversy once again with his latest book, a mix of non-fiction and fiction imagining the world in 2025, when things have gone his way: the democratisation of wealth, ... read more
How we might mitigate the effects of an unrestrained market with strong civil government to create inclusive economic growth. Henderson is a professor at Harvard and a member of both the Bri... read more
The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more
As an account of concepts of freedom, this book might perhaps be placed in a History or Philosophy section. We hope you will take its inclusion under Current Affairs as a gesture of hope!
A useful book from CUP, as thorough as you would expect. Paris and London in the 1720s, Latin America a century later, New York in the 1920s, Shanghai in the 2000s amongst others.
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
LH is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent several years in Moscow before being expelled in 2011. In his latest book he covers the work of Russian spies in recent years, inclu... read more
The author of 'East West Street' examines the life of Otto von Wachter, the SS Governor of Galicia, who was indicted for mass murder in 1945 and went to ground in the Austrian Alps.
How Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia, controlling the economy through a fiefdom of oligarchs, and have used that wealth to extend their own influence.
This hardba... read more
...and why it's good for the planet, the economy and our lives. We may even have time to read it. Prof Dorling is a specialist in demography at Oxford and knows his onions.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land: AL was a philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester and conservationist, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was the ... read more
A history and call-to-action by a dynamic new thinker and campaigner, re-centring the importance of grassroots, structural change. Vital reading for the present (and any) cultural moment.
The late CB specialized in identifying patterns (eg The Seven Basic Plots). Here he examines three sets of ‘in-group’ attitudes that he believed to be increasingly pervasive, and dangero... read more
His 2019 book 'Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain' was a brilliant, erudite, witty and important sequence of essays about why Brexit happened. This book is all new material.