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Tyranny of the Minority
How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All
2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...
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Environmental Policy
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
2024 || Paperback || Michael E. Kraft e.a. || SAGE
Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and help students think critically about their implications for current policy.
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Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
Casting Light or Shadow
2024 || Paperback || Craig E. Johnson || SAGE
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century
A Practical Guide
2024 || Paperback || Tony Blair || Cornerstone
Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.
The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some have leaders who understand the principles of good government, and some don't.
Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time ...
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Politics On the Edge (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Rory Stewart || Vintage UK
A searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’ ALAN JOHNSON
‘An instant classic’ MARINA HYDE
‘At last a politician who can write’ SEBASTIAN FAULKS
The Times Political Book of the Year
Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – b...
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Technofeudalism (Heruitgave)
what Killed Capitalism
2024 || Paperback || Yanis Varoufakis || Vintage UK
‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH
Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.
In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that e...
Not the End of the World
Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES‘I find it hard to express how much I love this book’ RUTGER BREGMAN'The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it' TIM SPECTORFeeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve themWe are bombarded by doom...
The Myth of Ameriican Idealism
how U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky || Hamish Hamilton
From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s futureThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of “spreading democracy” — except wreak havoc in country after country and establish a reckless foreign policy that served the interest of few and endangered all too many? Without, ironically, making Americans any safer.
In this timely book, Noam Chomsky, one of the most wid...
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An Introduction to UK Politics
Place, Pluralism, and Identities
2024 || Paperback || Joanie Willett e.a. || SAGE
Slow Down
How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
2024 || Paperback || Kohei Saito || Orion
Karl Marx called religion "the opium of the masses" because of the illusory relief it offered from the cold realities of capitalism. Today, the hard reality that we must face is that we have fundamentally and irrevocably damaged life on Earth, and while distracting opiates are everywhere, it is clear that the root cause is none other than capitalism itself.
Building upon a completely unexplored facet of Marx's thought that has been lying dormant for more than a century, Japanese sta...