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A study of the First World War’s impact on French cultural responses to gender violence.
The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics Roderick Cooke 28th March, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781836244332 How writers’ political ideas in the Dreyfus Affair emerged from their earlier literary thought.
Queer Mobilities in Indonesia Wikke Jansen 28th February, hb, eb, £100, 9781836244431 Rich insights into the changing worlds of urban queer Indonesians.
Cultures of Mobility and Alterity Yana Hashamova (ed), Oana Popescu- Sandu (ed), Sunnie Rucker-Chang (ed) 28th February, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781836244585 Advancing public dialogue surrounding the issues of migrants and refugees, this volume explores the dynamic representations of the recent movement of people from and through the Balkans.
Lorenz
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Presidents Jon Roper 21st February, hb, £15, 9780754835981 Impressively presented guide to the 47 incumbents who have held the highest-ranking political office in the United States government.
Luath Press
Scotland and Ireland Jeremy Harrison, Henry McLeish 30th April, pb, £12.99, 9781804251416 Small nations and independence have dominated the headlines for many years now. We look towards other countries’ successes in comparison to our own.
Manchester University Press
Culture is Bad for You Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, Mark Taylor 25th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526177810 Unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain. Revised and updated with the latest figures to investigate the cultural sector in post- Covid Britain.
Melville House
You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave Patrick Strickland 10th April, hb, eb, £25, 9781685890667 Remarkable work of reportage based on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground work tells how Greece’s violent far right is trying to destroy the birthplace of democracy.
Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized John Beck 8th May, hb, eb, £25, 9781685891794 Shocking, firsthand investigation of the Chinese government’s brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens—the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and others—as told by the victims.
MIT Press
Climate Justice Cass R Sunstein 11th February, hb, £27, 9780262049467 Explores the importance of the social cost of carbon, questions the obligations of rich nations to poor nations and raises questions about the rights of future generations.
Coming Clean Eric Heinze 8th April, pb, £26, 9780262049580 Shows how the left can regain influence by reckoning with its own past and applying the tools of critical theory to itself as well as to others.
The Weaponization of Expertise Jacob Hale Russell, Dennis Patterson 4th March, hb, £27, 9780262049597 Diagnosis of the rise of populism as a legitimate reaction against the elitism of credentialed experts.
The First and Last Bank Gustav Peebles, Benjamin Luzzatto 13th May, pb, £36, 9780262049641 Bold, collective solution to climate catastrophe: carbon-backed currencies managed locally offer a powerful and untapped tool for catalysing a fast, global effort to draw down C02.
An Abundance of Caution David Zweig 22nd April, hb, £36, 9780262549158 Investigates the initial decisions that led to UK
school closures in spring 2020 and looks at why so many schools remained closed despite mounting evidence that they could be safely reopened.
Particles of Truth C Arden Pope, Douglas W Dockery, Gina McCarthy 1st April, hb, £27, 9780262551670 The story of the discovery and controversy of the global health impacts of air pollution.
Planetary Eating Gidon Eshel 24th June, pb, £33, 9780262552141 Dietary choices have a great impact on one’s health and environmental footprint yet making the right choices is a deep scientific challenge well outside most laypersons’ knowledge.
Monthly Review Press
Roses for Gramsci Andy Merrifield 5th April, hb, £20, 9781685901042 Remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist.
The Physics of Capitalism Erald Kolasi 13th February, hb, £89, 9781685900915 pb, £27.99, 9781685900908 Comprehensive blueprint for a post-capitalist order which values our collective future over immediate economic gains.
Mudlark
Punishing Putin Stephanie Baker 5th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008653446 Essential insider account of the West’s ecomomic war with Putin’s Russia.
The Cost of Trust Deborah Douglas, Tracy King 5th June, hb, eb, £20, 9780008712938 This is the story of one of the most horrifying scandals in British medical history.
The Anti-catastrophe League Tom Ough 3rd July, hb, eb, £25, 9780008722340 Brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.
The Mad and the Brave Colin Freeman 17th July, hb, eb, £22, 9780008722463
With real-life echoes of SAS Rogue Heroes this is an astonishing account of Europe’s biggest major conflict, told through the eyes of a ragbag collection of foreign fighters.
Oxford University Press
We Tried to Tell Y’all Meredith D Clark 3rd March, hb, eb, £64, 9780190068134 Offers both testimony and admonition to those whose sense of “the Black experience in America” relies solely on news and entertainment media.
The Great Retreat Didi Kuo 1st May, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780197664193 Kuo connects the erosion of political parties in advanced democracies to the recent crises of democratic capitalism.
A Measure Short of War William C Wohlforth, Jill Kastner 4th July, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780197683163 In this primer the authors provide a compelling history of subversion by exploring 2,000 years of mischief and manipulation in world politics.
Indulging Kleptocracy Tom Mayne, Tena Prelec, John Heathershaw 4th February, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780197688229 Cataloguing rich case studies of how kleptocrats offshored their wealth and exploited financial deregulation, this book demonstrates what is at stake politically in the globalisation of authoritarian regime practices.
When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid- 19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders Laurie Trautman, Edward Alden 7th April, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780197697818 Tells the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond to an external threat during the pandemic.
The Most Powerful Court in the World Stuart Banner 4th February, hb, eb, £30.99, 9780197780350 Authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the founding era to the present.
Perfect Storm Thane Gustafson 3rd June, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780197795682 Reinterprets the broader story of Russia’s failed opening to the West, focusing on its economic, technological and social aspects and the role these played in its ultimate failure.
What’s Wrong With Stereotyping? Erin Beeghly 27th March, hb, eb, £30, 9780198829669 Groundbreaking and accessibly written philosophical account of the ethics of stereotyping advances a complex and often surprising notion of what stereotyping is and when and why it is wrong.
Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation Tom Parr 18th March, hb, eb, £99, 9780198849124 How labour market policymakers should respond to the threats and opportunities that arise from automation, artificial intelligence and other forms of techno-logical progress.
Representative Democracy Ryan Pevnick, Dimitri Landa 15th March, pb, eb, £25, 9780198941873 Explains why the definitive institutional features of representative democracy are attractive relative to salient alternatives, including direct democ-racy, lottery-based systems and meritocratic alternatives.
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? James S Fishkin 18th March, hb, eb, £19.99, 9780198944416 Drawing on Deliberative Polling research conducted all over the world, this book charts a unique path to fixing democracy’s many problems through empowering reform that would strengthen current institutions.
Pan
Failed State Sam Freedman 3rd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035026609 One of Britain’s leading policy experts explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
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