Political ideologies
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At work in the ruins
£12.99At work in the ruins
Dougald Hine, author and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he found he had nothing left to say. Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological destruction want to stop talking about climate change now? ‘At Work in the Ruins’ explores that question.
SKU: 9781645022916 Category: Science Tags: Climate change, Political ideologies, Social impact of disasters, Social impact of environmental issues£12.99 -
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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Doppelganger
£25.00Doppelganger
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn’t. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity – all we have to meet the world – so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting ‘the children’).
SKU: 9780241621301 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Conspiracy theories, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Political ideologies, Social networking, Society & culture: general, The self, ego, identity, personality£25.00 -
Doppelganger
£10.99Doppelganger
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn’t. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity – all we have to meet the world – so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting ‘the children’).
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Fascism
£8.99Fascism
Fascism is notoriously hard to define. In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world, to make sense of its ideology and place in the modern world.
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Gathering
£10.99Gathering
“The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed.”
Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK writing about their relationships with nature, in a genre long-dominated by male, white, middle-class writers. In redressing this imbalance, this moving collection considers climate justice, neurodiversity, mental health, academia, inherited histories, colonialism, whiteness, music, hiking and so much more.
These personal, creative, and fierce essays will broaden both conversations and horizons about our living world, encouraging readers to consider their own experience with nature and their place within it.
SKU: 9781912489749 Category: Natural History Tags: Environmentalist thought & ideology, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Political ideologies, Social impact of environmental issues£10.99 -
Kingmaker
£25.00Kingmaker
Cameron. May. Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Five prime ministers, one explosive memoir from the heart of Westminster. Kingmaker lifts the lid on some of the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half. The last fourteen years have seen turbulence at the centre of politics that is perhaps unique in British history. From coalition to Brexit, Covid to Partygate, Trussonomics to this year’s election, our government has never felt so fractured. And as Prime Ministers have come and gone, one man has been at the heart of every leadership challenge, seeing all, but saying nothing. Until now. Sir Graham Brady has been the Chairman of the 1922 Committee since 2010. As the leader of the group with the power to choose a new leader of the Conservative Party, it is his hand that held the executioner’s axe over five consecutive Conservative Prime Ministers’ heads. Elected to parliament in 1997 as the youngest Conservative
SKU: 9781804188262 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Biography: historical, political & military, Political corruption, Political ideologies£25.00 -
No filters
£14.99No filters
How can we communicate when things are so painful? How can we connect when generational differences are extreme? How do parents and teenagers – and all of us – have real conversations? When Rowan was 16, she only tolerated communication from her mother in the form of Snapchat. Desperate to be closer to her daughter, Christie sent daily selfies of her face superimposed onto a chicken nugget. It took serious illness for them to finally talk – and truly listen. Rowan’s mental health struggles revealed the chasm between their generations. They started being more honest with each other than they had ever been before: discussing identity, race and gender; opening up about disordered eating and self-harm; navigating the perils of social media. In an age of polarisation, this is how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and become more hopeful about the future of our world.
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On freedom
£25.00On freedom
Timothy Snyder has been called ‘the leading interpreter of our dark times’. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians. His book ‘On Tyranny’ has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means – and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we’re free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from, as freedom to – the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.
SKU: 9781847928054 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Political control & freedoms, Political ideologies, Popular philosophy, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, Social forecasting, future studies£25.00 -
The identity trap
£10.99The identity trap
For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have come to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity if they are to resist injustice. But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities has transformed into an obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology – which Yascha Mounk terms the ‘identity synthesis’ – seeks to put each citizen’s matrix of identities at the heart of social, cultural and political life. This, he argues, is The Identity Trap. Mounk traces the intellectual origin of these ideas. He tells the story of how they were able to win tremendous power over the past decade.
SKU: 9781802062861 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Political ideologies, Political science & theory, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social discrimination & equal treatment£10.99 -
The message
£18.99The message
With his bestseller, ‘Between the World and Me’, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin. In his keenly anticipated new book, ‘The Message’, he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking – both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell – as well as the ones we don’t – work to shape us.
SKU: 9780241724187 Category: Biography Tags: Cultural & media studies, Ethical issues: censorship, Literary essays, Political ideologies, Political science & theory, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Travel writing£18.99 -
The sister
£10.99The sister
This first book on Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister, tipped to be his successor, is a readable, jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and dangerous dynasty.
SKU: 9781529073577 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Biography: historical, political & military, Nuclear weapons, Political corruption, Political ideologies, Political oppression & persecution£10.99 -
The Taiwan story
£18.99The Taiwan story
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 two Chinas were born. Mao’s communists won and took China’s Mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists fled to the island Taiwan. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy, has a successful economy – underpinned by a single company producing 85% of the world’s semiconductors: the beating heart of the world economy – and a free, diverse society. For the US and the West, the island is a bastion of freedom against Chinese aggression in the region. And yet China, increasingly bellicose under Xi Jinping, insists Taiwan is part of its territory and must be returned to it.
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The Wild Men
£20.00The Wild Men
In 1923, four short years since the end of the First World War, and after the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote, an inconclusive election result and the prospect of a constitutional crisis opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men from working-class backgrounds who had never before occupied the corridors of power at Westminster. ‘The Wild Men’ tells the story of that first Labour administration – its unexpected birth, fraught existence, and controversial downfall – through the eyes of those who found themselves in the House of Commons, running the country for the people. Blending biography and history into a compelling narrative, David Torrance reassesses the UK’s first Labour government a century after it shook up a British establishment still reeling from the War – and how the establishment eventually fought back.
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The wild men
£10.99The wild men
The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the British establishment, with a fully updated new Preface.
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To Overthrow the World
£27.50To Overthrow the World
A sweeping history of the ideology that refuses to disappear, and its tyrannical leaders around the world.
£27.50