Polity Press
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Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
$29.95 Read moreIs it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully co
- Author: Bateman, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556060
- Language: English
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Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning
$36.33 Add to cartAs a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.
Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker si
- Author: Jenkins, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 150953959X
- Language: English
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Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West
$19.95 Read moreFollowing the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across
- Author: Stokes, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1509554238
- Language: English
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The Empire of Depression: A New History
$24.95 Read moreDepression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, “depression” referred to a mood, not a sickness.
Does that mean people weren
- Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1509531653
- Language: English
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A War Made in Russia
$19.95 Read moreIn this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation … [more below]
- Author: Medvedev, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558403
- Language: English
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In the Name of Sharks
$22.95 Read moreTwenty metres below water, the oceanographer Fran輟is Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experie
- Author: Sarano, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1509557679
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75 Add to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions
$19.95 Read moreSex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparen
- Author: Byrne, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1509560017
- Language: English
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Russia Against Modernity
$19.95 Read morePutin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and d
- Author: Etkind, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556583
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00 Add to cartMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Read moreIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
$29.95 Read moreNietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shado
- Author: Felsch, Philipp
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 150955761X
- Language: English
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Zelensky: A Biography
$16.95 Read moreThree years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the publ
- Author: Rudenko, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 150956067X
- Language: English
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Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer: Questions about God
$25.00 Read more‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room
- Author: Kermani, Navid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556273
- Language: English
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Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe
$29.95 Read moreWhat would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect i… [more below]
- Author: Rifkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509563733
- Language: English
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The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World
$29.95 Read moreGenerations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and e
- Author: Lappin, Shalom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 150955856X
- Language: English
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If Science Is to Save Us
$14.95 Read moreThere has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor ha
- Author: Rees, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1509554203
- Language: English
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Zelensky: A Biography
$25.00 Read moreThree years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the publ
- Author: Rudenko, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1509556389
- Language: English
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics
$12.95 Read moreJ?gen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blen
- Author: Habermas, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558942
- Language: English
