Polity Press
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The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Center of the New Cold War
$29.95 Add to cartRussia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the pla… [more below]
- Author: Cole, J. Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509568050
- Language: English
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Who Owns Beauty?
$29.95 Add to cartBeauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose gen… [more below]
- Author: Savoy, Bénédicte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509568611
- Language: English
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The History of Pizza
$29.95 Add to cartPizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and
- Author: Cesari, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566643
- Language: English
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The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821
$35.00 Read moreIf you haven�t followed the money, chances are you don�t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Vague, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1509569081
- Language: English
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White
$25.00 Add to cartWhen Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn’t know what exactly awaited him. The … [more below]
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565523
- Language: English
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Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI
$19.95 Add to cartSince the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative te… [more below]
- Author: Srnicek, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1509550496
- Language: English
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The Last Neanderthal: Understanding How Humans Die
$29.95 Add to cartIt’s August 2015. After twenty-five years of archaeological research in a secluded cave overlooking the Rh?ne Valley in southern France, Ludovic Slimak uncovers the remains of a Neanderthal, frozen in… [more below]
- Author: Slimak, Ludovic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509569588
- Language: English
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States
$29.95 Add to cartAmerica’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why i… [more below]
- Author: Schake, Kori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1509570535
- Language: English
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A Short History of Stupidity
$29.95 Add to cartWe are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who’ve become too mindless to realize their interests are ill served by… [more below]
- Author: Jeffries, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1509563490
- Language: English
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Living with Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial
$25.00 Add to cartGis?le Pelicot’s story outraged the world. The sickening parade of crimes to which she was subjected and her betrayal are dark pages in our history. Feminist philosopher Manon Garcia decided to attend… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Manon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1509573135
- Language: English
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In Praise of the Earth: A Journey Into the Garden
$19.95 Add to cartThe earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spen
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567895
- Language: English
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
$29.95 Add to cartAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored.
Born to a… [more below]
- Author: Rooney, Padraig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566295
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order
$22.95 Add to cartIn the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based libera
- Author: Pilkington, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566228
- Language: English
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Self-Censorship
$15.00 Add to cartThere is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of A… [more below]
- Author: Loury, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567402
- Language: English
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The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics, Politics, History, and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartBranko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond,… [more below]
- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567763
- Language: English
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Rebel Russia: Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny
$25.00 Add to cartNavalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel – in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state – has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel’s story is almost always a sad o… [more below]
- Author: Arutunyan, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509552294
- Language: English
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One Nation Under the Influence: America’s Drug Habit and How We Can Overcome It
$29.95 Add to cartWe are in the midst of the worst drug crisis in American history. What are we going to do about it?
Around 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose last year – nearly double the number who died in Vie… [more below]
- Author: Sabet, Kevin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 150956070X
- Language: English
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Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
$29.95 Add to cartJune 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in Franc… [more below]
- Author: Wittstock, Uwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565426
- Language: English
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Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
$15.00 Add to cartIn this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Rangi… [more below]
- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565507
- Language: English
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The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality
$110.75 Add to cartAs AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are sub
- Author: Adams, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553096
- Language: English
