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Chinese citizens’ trust in their government and explores the complexities of political trust and its manipulation under autocratic rule.
Story Tech Filippo Trevisan, Michael Vaughan, Ariadne Vromen 26th February, pb, £24.95, 9780472057252 Advocacy organisations use digital storytelling technologies to influence public discourse, focusing on campaigns for social change in the US and Australia. This is how they do it.
No Peer Rivals Ionut Popescu 2nd April, pb, £24.95, 9780472057399 Develops a US grand strategy for great power competition, prioritising rivalry with China while addressing military, economic and techno-logical challenges in an era of geopolitical tension.
University of Minnesota Press
Capitalism Hates You Joshua Gooch 11th March, pb, £21.99, 9781517917975 Gooch uses the horror film genre as a tool to diagnose and expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism.
University of North Carolina Press
Black Movement Jeffrey O G Ogbar (ed) 15th April, hb, £125, 9781469684338 The last half century of African American urban history explored.
Black Girls and How We Fail Them Aria S Halliday 18th February, hb, £82, 9781469686103 Exposes how people have been complicit in the depiction of Black girls as unwanted and disposable while letting Black girls fend for themselves.
University of Toronto Press
Diary of an Uncertain Psychic
Deena IJ Newman 15th March, pb, £20.99, 9781487563295 This is an examination of the life of a psychic and her spontaneous imagery that challenges conventional perceptions
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through a original graphic narrative.
University Press of Florida
The New Brazilian Mediascape Eli Lee Carter 25th February, pb, £27.95, 9781683404613 The movement away from historically popular telenovelas towards new television and internet series is creating dramatic shifts in how Brazil imagines itself as a nation.
Alive in Their Garden Dede Mirabal, Ana E Martinez, Heather Hennes 25th February, hb, £124, 9781683404880 The lives and legacy of the Dominican Republic’s Mirabal sisters as told in an intimate memoir by the sister who survived.
University Press of Mississippi
Conjuring the Haint Drea Brown 16th June, pb, £24.95, 9781496856272 The first critical study of the interlocking relation- ship between Black women’s lives and poetry.
Choctaw Tales Tom Mould, Rae Nell Vaughn, Chief Phillip Martin 16th June, hb, £34.95, 9781496857071 Makes the vibrant Choctaw oral storytelling tradition understandable to today’s general audiences.
Choctaw Traditions Tom Mould, Eddie Johnson, Jay Wesley 16th June, hb, £100, 9781496857194 Draws on in excess of 1,400 stories from interviews with 100 tribal members, past and present, from all nine of the Choctaw communities in Mississippi and Tennessee.
Black Girls Om Too Rachel Panton (ed) 16th June, pb, £24.95, 9781496857255 How Black women practising yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centred and celebrated.
An American Girl Anthology Justine Orlovsky- Schnitzler (ed), KC Hysmith (ed) 15th May, pb, £20.95, 9781496858061 With contributions from
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Mary Berman, Mary Burke, Abigail C Fine, Juliette Holder, Mackenzie Kwok and more.
Verso Books
The Next Crisis Danny Dorling 13th May, hb, eb, £22, 9781804294345 What does the world think about the future? Leading geographer Dorling surveys people’s attitudes to what will happen tomorrow and shows why they get it so wrong.
Motherdom Alex Bollen 4th March, hb, eb, £22, 9781804297537 Blaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: welcome to the ugly world of “good mother” myths.
Road to October 7 Erik Skare 6th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781804297889 How Islamism became a leading force in the Palestinian resistance.
Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century Jean-Luc Melenchon, David Broder (tr) 15th April, hb, eb, £22, 9781804297940 Major investigation of the possibility of a new type of revolution by the leader of the French radical left.
Females Andrea Long Chu 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804298213 Gender and desire explored by our most exciting new public intellectual.
Hold Everything Dear John Berger 25th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781804298251 Powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times.
Against Landlords Nick Bano 15th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804298336 When landlords always win and renters pay the price what can be done?
Surviving the 21st Century Noam Chomsky, Jose Mujica, Saul Alvidrez (ed) 10th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804299517 Explore freedom, power and the biggest challenges of the 21st century with two extraordinary figures.
Homeland Richard Beck 11th March, hb, eb, £30, 9781836740728 Groundbreaking history of how 9/11 and the “war on terror” changed virtually every aspect of American life.
Palestine Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox, Rafeef Ziadah 29th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836740759 Materialist analysis reframes the Palestinian struggle within the contexts of imperialism and global capitalism.
Viking
You Didn’t Hear This From Me Kelsey McKinney 20th February, hb, £18.99, 9780241741191 Deliciously insightful exploration of why we are so obsessed with gossip and what it can tell us about humans and their search for truth.
Vintage
Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back Torsten Bell 20th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529932393 Updated with a new Foreword: an essential blueprint for a better future from the leading economist and Labour rising star.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Chinese and Any Other Asian
Anna Sulan Masing 6th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781399606653 Short, powerful and punchy exploration of the East and South-east Asian experience and identity in Britain.
William Collins
No Way Out Tim Shipman 5th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008308988 Next instalment of the number one bestselling Brexit quartet. Spun with characteristic wit and wisdom, No Way Out traces the unprecedented disasters and triumphs of Theresa May’s tenure.
Sanctuary Marina Warner 3rd July, hb, eb, £22, 9780008347543 What sanctuary means for people in desperate situations today and what refuge and displacement has meant for people
throughout history, literature and myth.
The Half of It Emma Slade Edmondson, Nicole Ocran 3rd July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008481711 Edmondson and Ocran explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience to create a space for discussion illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.
The Incarcerations Alpa Shah 13th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780008518844 Pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of 16 human rights defenders imprisoned, without credible evidence or trial, as Maoist terrorists.
The Elements of Power Nicolas Niarchos 8th May, hb, eb, £22, 9780008553944 New Yorker writer takes the reader on a journey from Congolese mines to Chinese factories to uncover the darker side of cobalt, the metal powering the green revolution.
Cuckooland Tom Burgis 27th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008564780 “Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves” — Sunday Times. “If Orwell were with us today, he’d be writing books like this”—Patrick Radden Keefe. Where the rich own the truth.
The Spy in the Archive Gordon Corera 5th June, hb, eb, £25, 9780008644796 The remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin, the introverted, in-house archivist for the KGB who loved nothing more than dusty files, ended up changing the world.
The Great Wave Michiko Kakutani 22nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008706531 Urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times best- selling author of The Death of Truth.
William Morrow
Devils’ Advocates Kenneth Vogel 17th July, hb, eb, £20, 9780063341210
Investigative reporter invites readers inside Washington’s murky foreign influence industry. An unsparing look at the politically connected and morally flexible Americans who get rich working to shape public policy.
WW Norton SERIES
Norton Shorts 9781324 Written by leading-edge scholars, these eye-opening books deliver bold thinking and fresh perspectives in less than 200 pages. What’s Real about Race? Rina Bliss 25th March, hb, eb, £17.99, vol 1, 021766 Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 21st March, pb, eb, £8.99, vol 2, 105015
Just Action Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein 15th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324096177 Brilliantly recounts how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.
Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America Daniel Steinmetz- Jenkins (ed) 11th February, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324110590 Essential primer for the thoughtful citizen, Did It Happen Here? is the go-to resource for every politically attuned reader worried about fascism and the politics of fear.
Stories Are Weapons Annalee Newitz 19th July, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324110460 From the bestselling author of Four Lost Cities comes a sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponised storytelling.
Yale University Press
Nato Sten Rynning 27th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780300282641 Wide-ranging history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, from its origins to the present day, published for the alliance’s 75th anniversary.
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