Current And Social Affairs
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
£16.99The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
‘The Gulag Archipelago’ is Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn’s own eleven years in labour camps and exile.
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Political Philosophy
£8.99Political Philosophy
This short text introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as, ‘how should we live together in society?’.
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Feminism
£8.99Feminism
This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
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Economics
£8.99Economics
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta reveals the connections between economics, politics, and development, and shows how these interactions create the world we live in today.
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The Invisible Hand
£7.99The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market argued that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’.
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Five Lectures On Psycho-Analysis
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Communism
£8.99Communism
The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction examines the history behind the political, economic, and social structures of communism as an ideology.
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Capitalism
£8.99Capitalism
In this Very Short Introduction James Fulcher considers what capitalism is, the forms it can take around the world, and its history of crises and long-term development. In this new edition he discusses the fundamental impact of the global financial crises of 2007-8 and what it has meant for capitalism worldwide.
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Good Ideas
£10.99Good Ideas
The way we’ve been taught excludes or limits all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture. From cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model-making, from playing Top Trumps to arguing with TV programmes, from collecting leaves to playing ‘Who am I?’, Michael Rosen shows how to use everything around you to learn more – and how enjoyable and satisfying it can be.
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Proverbs
£5.99Proverbs
In this compact book, renowned Irish painter Hector McDonnell takes a world tour of over 1,200 proverbs, comparing their similarities and contradictions, and revealing the secret patterns of common sense, human nature and human folly.
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Prisoners of Geography
£10.99Prisoners of Geography
Spread over ten chapters, using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, ‘Prisoners of Geography’ looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history. This edition has been updated to reflect current events of 2016.
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A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women
£12.99A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book’s central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception and the philosophy of Kierkegaard.
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