World politics
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New World Order: A Strategy of Imperialism
$19.95 Read moreA sweeping overview of world affairs and, especially having come across the name of William Yandell Elliott, Professor of Politics at Harvard through the first half of the 20th century. Sean found tha… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1634240901
- Language: English
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Someone Else’s Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony
$34.95 Read moreSomeone’s Else’s Empire coolly reassesses Britain’s relationship with the United States. Elite descriptions of Britain’s position in the world (‘punching above our weight’) are untenable, Tom Stevenso… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 180429148X
- Language: English
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Confronting Empire
$19.95 Add to cartBrilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.
- Author: Ahmad, Eqbal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608466213
- Language: English
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Heaven in Disorder
$17.95 Add to cartAs we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1682192814
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Read moreThis compact history unspools the tumultuous global story that began with democracy’s radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own futures. Acclaimed political thinker John K… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Keane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198962
- Language: English
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Children’s Encyclopedia of Flags
$16.99 Read moreDiscover the amazing stories behind the flags of the world in this spectacular hardcover encyclopaedia for young readers.
Why does the Olympic flag have five rings? What does the star on Chile’s flag- Series: Arcturus Children’s Reference Library #16
- Author: Martin, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1398811092
- Language: English
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
$28.00 Read moreFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to to… [more below]
- Series: Politics of Place #4
- Author: Marshall, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1982178620
- Language: English
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
“A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an ey- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122061
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of tod
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525512179
- Language: English
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Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
$19.00 Add to cart“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… Numbers Don’t Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who lov… [more below]
- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 4, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136224
- Language: English
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to to… [more below]
- Series: Politics of Place #4
- Author: Marshall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178639
- Language: English
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
$32.00 Add to cartOne of Barack Obama‘s Favorite Books of 2023
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources–microchi- Author: Miller, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982172002
- Language: English
