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A stirring exploration of the ways we think about the future from pioneering creative leader Nick Foster.'Rigorous, rationally optimistic and ultimately empowering' OLIVER BURKEMAN'A deeply-considered - and funny - treatise on complacency' ALEX McDOWELL'Essential' DAVID EAGLEMAN'A rare and wondrous ...

An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrativeFROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF ENTER GHOST'Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose.' SALLY ROONEY'A p...

A ground-breaking memoir from Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme, revealing what is really known by world governments about UFOs and UAP.The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs - now known as U...

'Revelatory and illuminating' New YorkerThe true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big financ...

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews."The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropo...

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years; now with a new afterword to mark the 20th anniversary of publication'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach...

In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives.By turning critical attention away from the 'terrible spectacle' of the popular imagination, a fuller understanding of the ...

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our timeIn this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his insights on the pressing challenges facing humanity. addresses artificial intelligence and the potent...

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world.Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers - especially Chin...

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration- the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the c...

Our places, our voices. From the award-winning author of We Come with This Place.You won't find 'terraglossia' on Google, or in a dictionary. It's a word coined by acclaimed academic and award-winning author Dr Debra Dank in response to the first Europeans' of Australia as 'terra nullius' - no one's...

It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack of effective action by progressives.In Abundance, veteran journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson r...

Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the polit...

The acclaimed author of Free with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a familyWhen Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. G...

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic...

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponization of civic museums, public art, and even universities ― and one that has a deeper history than you might think.Tracing the or...

A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain futureA radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.Why do civilisations collapse? Is human progr...

By the renowned author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story, and First Nations researcher Megan Kelleher, comes this fascinating investigation into the symbol of the serpent.'I love this book. Every page is an illumination.' Bronwyn BancroftThe Serpent in Aboriginal stories is both creator and ...

From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and learning...

"" considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.