2022 Releases

The Politics of a Darkening America A Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall...

This English translation of the Brazilian bestseller presents first-hand social and cultural critique of the rising wave of far-right populism. When the Brazilian public intellectual Marcia Tiburi published The Psycho-Cultural...

Australia’s prosperity relies on the continent’s extraordinary natural — primarily mineral — riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation’s high living...

The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America — free speech — and reveals how...

Kamala Harris is one of our country's most awe-inspiring political figures, dawning on a new age as the first — but not last — Black and Asian-American female Vice President....

Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic...

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All...

Deliverance and Despair in IranBy 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a...

Pandemics and XenophobiaThis book explores prejudice towards groups who are thought to have caused and spread the COVID-19 virus.The book examines four cases around the world: the residents of Wuhan,...

A Political BiographyIn 2014, Joko Widodo — popularly known as Jokowi — was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term...

Nationalism and the Fate of DemocracyThere are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some more Indian than others?To answer this question, one that is central to the identity...

The Paradoxes of Chinese StruggleA major new contribution to the study of China's revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century.Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China...

Race, History and Changing the Money Game that's RiggedAn essential breakdown of the economic and social injustices faced by Black people, based on the viral video by writer, director and...

The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953-1968The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesIn this detailed political history of Iran from...

The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core...

In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter — and one of the BBC's Women of 2020 — examines the moment we're in, how...

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with...

The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy A detailed examination of the right-wing extremism Australia is facing right now, from the Lowy Institute. ASIO says right-wing extremism now...

Why is public debate increasingly polarised — and what can we do about it?Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics...

Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation Whatever your position is on Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and equity in law enforcement, former police chief Carmen Best shares...

A Black Power Manifesto From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, "a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated...

A progressive's political journey in the heart of Southeast Asia A passionate account about the coming of age of a young Malaysian politician Malaysian Son is the story of Nik...

How the powerful took over identity politics (and everything else)Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the...

The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters...

Exposing how the law silences women: Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. HOW MANY MORE WOMEN have to be raped or abused before we act?need to accuse him before we believe her?will be...

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...

An updated new edition that issues powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggleWhether class or race is the more important...

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...

Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We're...

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality.In the wake of the mass protests over the police murder of George Floyd, nearly every major consumer brand proclaimed their...

The first book from a former intelligence community insiderThe mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now...

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...

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...

The Case for Abolition This short book outlines the case for border abolition as the only viable response to the nightmarish realities of our present. It develops a thoroughgoing critique...

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...

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,...

Inequality, Environmental Destruction, and Imagining Poverty in the 21st CenturyA critical reflection on the power of moviemaking to shape our collective imagination of better futuresThrough a close analysis of more...

Marginalized Voices and DissentA new critical theory of social emancipation, which emboldens resistance to capitalism by rejecting nihilism and hopelessness.As we face new and debilitating catastrophes caused by capitalism and...

Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab GulfA critical analysis of the Houthi movement's beliefs and ways of thinking, showing how these impact on Yemen and Arab Gulf security.The Huthi...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' — Urdu for 'freedom' — is the...

Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 AmericaAmericans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar...

A home is important because it offers sanctuary and privacy. It can help improve mental health and emotional resilience, and it can help break people out of cycles of poverty....

How Black Radicals Reshaped the British LeftMaking the Revolution Global shows how black radicals transformed socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation.African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals, such as Amy...

Black Communist Women's Political WritingThe first collection of the writing of Black communist women.Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the...

Immigration and the End of Empire How citizens became immigrants — Britain's failure to create a post-imperial nation. What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the...

In her inspiring follow-up to Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. In The Light...

My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug...

Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can...

Lessons from Women in PowerWomen have been told to 'lean in' and act like men to get ahead. But as our systems crumble, isn't it time we had a different...

Singapore and the Invention of Modern AsiaLion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore — the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par...