2022 Releases

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places — Dhaka in...

Understanding Sāmona Oratory Lāuga or Samoan oratory is a premier cultural practice in the faasamoa (Samoan culture), a sacred ritual that embodies all that faasamoa represents, such as identity, inheritance,...

Keeping Communities Together in Times of CrisisOffering international perspectives from leading scholars and activists, this volume examines the social and political impact of the pandemic on education, and explores how...

Within living memory, South Korea has transformed into a leading cultural powerhouse of the 21st century.South Korea has transformed from a country devastated by war in the late 1950s to...

The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil...

Daily wisdom guided by Hina, the Maori moon Dr Hinemoa Elder, author of Aroha, New Zealand's top-selling non-fiction title of 2021, shows us how to reclaim intimacy with others, with...

The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come...

A Journey Across the country that Black America Built Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks —...

An illustrated stitch guideGoldwork embroidery is a traditional Chinese embroidery technique that was originally used in the court or palaces and was exclusive to nobility in ancient times. Similar embroidery...

Leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Reissued in four languages, Today meets Yesterday deploys vivid pictogram pairings to...

Yang Liu uses her wonderfully apt pictograms to display the discordances between American and European customs with wit and wisdom.In Europe meets USA she captures her own experiences of living...

Art has always declared its dissatisfaction against the status quo. Throughout history artists have used their art to criticise and protest against a range of injustices and inequalities, oppression and...

A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a WarTranslated from the French by Lara VergnaudIn 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in...

Memoir of a Freedom RiderA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward — written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At...

Liz Johnson Artur is a Ghanaian-Russian photographer and photojournalist based in London. For over three decades, her work has documented the lives of black people from across the African Diaspora....

How to Have Better ConversationsHow do you talk to someone who doesn't want to talk to you? What happens in the brain when we're having a good conversation? What have...

Two Works, Vol. 4In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois's text The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone...

Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care. The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and...

1902 to the Present*** Winner of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences non-fiction book award ***South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and...

A Crosscultural AnthologyThe dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very...

Voices within mental health An unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figures We are full of worlds...

History, Conscience and Britain's EmpireAn award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British EmpireFor generations, British thinkers told the history of an...

Explores the sonic, visual, and affective layers of Lamar's instant-classic album to explore how the rapper captures the consciousness of a nation in the midst of moral reckoning.Breaking the global...

The Rebellion for Democracy in South KoreaThe essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion.On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to...

Baltimore’s Fiery Reckoning When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police...

History, Without BordersSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of...

Life and Death in a Contested City A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out — from an electrifying new voice in...

The Soul of Inequality in American LifeA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racismPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith,...

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAn award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious...

The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave TradeA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and...

Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2020A Washington Post Notable Work of Non-Fiction 2020A searing indictment of racial injustice in America — inspired by the...

10 Years OnThe story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal...

If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition?Following the birth of Islamic feminism at the end of the...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendshipIn the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had...

A stunning piece of reportage, examining modern India through the stories of three couples who defy their families to be together — across faith, caste and tradition.What would you risk...

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the...

One woman’s journey to her moko kauae as an expression of her Kāi Tahu identity. I kā rā o mua, I would know my place in my tīpuna’s time, I...

In 1848, eight million hectares of land in Te Waipounamu — the South Island — was purportedly sold for just GBP2000. Hipa Te Maiharoa was a charismatic prophet who in...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racismArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study...

Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people? In this deeply personal...

A Black Woman’s Story The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers "I have all the guns and all the money. I can...

Overview Inspired by a photograph passed down through generations comes this beautifully written, compelling memoir of one Singapore family and the secrets that defined their story.A cherished family photograph, taken...

A celebration of the extraordinary turtle shell masks of the Torres Strait.Masked Histories celebrates the remarkable Torres Strait Islander turtle shell masks that were taken or traded by Europeans throughout...

The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons...

Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji andthe Case of the Foreigner in the English Village In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending...

A Story Set in WarA riveting exploration of the unforeseen consequences of technological disruption, from the number 1 international bestselling authorWhat is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation...

In this coruscating biography, Tariq Ali challenges Churchill's vaulted record. Throughout his long career as journalist, adventurer, MP, military leader, statesman, and historian, nationalist self belief influenced Churchill's every step,...

A Journey Across Muslim BritainAn open-hearted guide to modern Muslim Britain, exploring the challenges and changes faced in an increasingly divided nationIslam is the fastest-growing faith community in Britain. Domes...

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernityIn this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American,...

A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an 'Islamic Enlightenment' today.In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion...