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How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah of Iran and change the world?Why did Bin Laden attack the USA - and why did the USA destroy Saddam?How did Britain and France carve up the Middle East - and why did the Kurds never get their own state?THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF TODAY'S MIDDLE EA...

From the bestselling author of Guns, Germs and Steel, an exploration of the influence of leaders in politics, business, sport and religionWe often read history as the biographies of 'great men' who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs b...

How does a democracy die?What can we do to save our own?What lessons does history teach us?In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before.Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Harvar...

Why politics the five traps of the modern world & how to escape them

'A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin's Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work' ANTONY BEEVORPutin's Russia silences its citizens, targets foreign journalists and invaded a neighbouring country - while declaring it illegal to say the country is at war. This is what we know...

A captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' THE TIMES 'None is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama' FINANCIAL TIMES In 1989, one year before the fall of the Berlin W...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be...

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chill...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have landed America where it is today - with irresponsible economic bullies and corporations with immense wealth and lobbying power on top, demagogues on the rise, an...

From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progressAmerica used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through...

A spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris...

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day"Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. A crisp and balanced account."―Christopher Harding, The TelegraphKorea has a long, riveting history―it is also a divi...

An urgent manifesto to defeat authoritarianism, by one of the world's great progressive voicesToday, 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 necessi...

What amounts to a war crime today? This timely book by world-renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC investigates the evidence and how attacks on free societies can be deterred.We are, today, exposed to evidence of thousands of war crimes. Residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukrai...

A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth TransformedFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter - 'the historian of China' (Spectator) - a commanding new history of China...

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known offic...

A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In , Ngugi wa Thiong'o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. I...

brings together political commentary and analysis that offers a thought-provoking vision of Palestine and the wider region and responds to the martyred Palestinian writer Basel Al-Araj’s call: “Keep Palestine firmly within your sight."Read translated essays by Mousa Alsadah, Sari Orabi, and Nida...

‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry‘Mind-blowing..Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Beltonâ...

An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in EuropeA captivating portrait of number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraord...

'If you've got the political bug - you will love this book. If you don't, this book will give it to you.'KATE JENKINS, Chair Australian Sports CommissionConversations with the chiefs of staff to world leaders ranging from Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris and John Howard to Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair an...

An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – with a new foreword to the 2024 editionHow to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism a...

'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara DemickIn 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From t...

In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's futureAn urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists won...