Information Wars

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During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of the new global information war. …

The Curse of Bigness

We’re three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?In The Cu …

The Great Imperial Hangover

For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn’t mean we don’t feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world’s imperi …

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1 …

Endell Street

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Ander …

Good Company

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‘What a joy! Dexter’s book shows that it is possible for companies to cut the BS and care about individuals too. Inspiring and powerful.’Ruby WaxIn a highly competitive world, many think business succ …

The Hidden Half

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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is ‘The Hidden Half’ – those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.We humans are ver …

Apocalypse How?

As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying. Whether it’s a hostile state striking the national grid (like Russ …

Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays

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The current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challeng …

The New Class War

An Evening Standard’s Book of the Year’A tour de force.’ David GoodhartAll over the West, party systems have shattered and governments have been thrown into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims …

Infinite Powers

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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world’s foremost mathematicians.This is the captivating story of m …

Crisis of Conscience

‘Powerful…His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling…They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud.’ Washington Post’Tom Muell …

Autopia

Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormou …

The Pinch

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In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today’s young people will pay h …

Led by Donkeys

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s hypocrisies through a nationwide guerrilla advertising campaign.Seeking …

Attlee and Churchill

Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail’A masterpiece’ Frederick Forsyth ‘Beautifully written… unlikely to be surpassed’ Simon Heffer’Superb’ Daily Mail, Book of the Week’ …