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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- £20.00
- *Shortlisted for FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year* From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row-a reversal…
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Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat And How To Restore Our Nation
- £20.00
- David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs…
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
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Flash Boys
- £10.00
- The greatest story of our age ... Be very afraid' John Arlidge, Sunday Times Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious,…
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
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Putin Country, a journey into the real Russia
- £12.00
- More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.…
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories
- £18.00
- The urgent, explosive story of RussiaÕs espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present Ð including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian…
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The Future of Geography (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isnÕt science fiction. ItÕs astropolitics. WeÕre entering a new space race Ð and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication,…
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The Power of Geography: ten maps that reveal the future of the world
- £10.00
- Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nationÕs choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasnÕt changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age…
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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
- Add to basket
-
Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
- Add to basket
-
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- £20.00
- *Shortlisted for FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year* From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row-a reversal…
- Add to basket
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Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat And How To Restore Our Nation
- £20.00
- David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs…
- Add to basket
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
- Add to basket
-
Flash Boys
- £10.00
- The greatest story of our age ... Be very afraid' John Arlidge, Sunday Times Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious,…
- Add to basket
-
History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
- Add to basket
-
In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
- Add to basket
-
Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
- Add to basket
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
- Add to basket
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
- Add to basket
-
Putin Country, a journey into the real Russia
- £12.00
- More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.…
- Add to basket
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories
- £18.00
- The urgent, explosive story of RussiaÕs espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present Ð including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian…
- Add to basket
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The Future of Geography (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isnÕt science fiction. ItÕs astropolitics. WeÕre entering a new space race Ð and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication,…
- Add to basket
-
The Power of Geography: ten maps that reveal the future of the world
- £10.00
- Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nationÕs choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasnÕt changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age…
- Add to basket