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A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic.From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

An Untold History A Guardian Best Book of 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of...

A Philosophy of ViolenceTranslated from the French by Kieran Aarons.A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopherIs violent self-defense ethical? In the history...

Shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Social Impact Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards and the 2024...

The Origins of Our Discontents From one of America's most celebrated writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about power, history and what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives 'The...

Britain and the Aftermath of EmpireBritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated...

Notes on Confidence from the World’s Only Image Architect From Law Roach, award-winning celebrity stylist and the world’s only image architect, comes a groundbreaking guide to becoming your ultimate, confident...

The Shakurs and the Nation They Created A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for...

Upheaval in the Lifeworld We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way...

Afghanistan after the Americans Left The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of...

How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what...

The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION****LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE****WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ...

Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Māori...

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession...

A First English Translation “A dazzlingly fresh take on universal themes.… [B]ursting with practical wisdom.” ―Skye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic A philosophy grounded not in a...

A courageous exploration of Islamophobia, patriarchy and identity, debunking lazy stereotypes. What is it really like to be a Muslim woman in today's Britain? Muslim women are among the most...

A collection of essays exploring what it means to be a young secular Muslim woman today by N.S. Nuseibeh who reflects on her ancestor Nusayba, the only woman warrior to...

The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023...

A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts himThis is the story of a wall that somehow chose me...

I believe history is for healing. But you need to tell the whole story, the good and the bad. Telling the truth to the younger ones, the next generation, will...

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF AUSTRALIA'S FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGES, FROM PRECOLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's longest continuous collection...

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about...

Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial...

Everything You Want to Know About the History, Ingredients and Folklore of Japan's Unique Cuisine (Learn All About Your Favorite Japanese Foods!) The complete backstory of Japanese cuisine explained in...

Knowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind. Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely question. Taking cues from Greek...

Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us. Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami Spirits is a concise guide to the fundamental elements...

Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It's All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke...

A Different Way of Looking at Race'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya....

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the...

A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of Black Panther. Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she...

My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top...

A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What...

The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts A stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave...

Maori Metaphors and Similes He Iti te Kupu contains nearly 500 sayings that draw a comparison between something (often the natural world) and people, events or contexts. Written in Maori...

Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being...

The Montgomery Story The inspiring account of the march towards American Civil Rights, as told by Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the...

Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in ChinaAn accessible and highly-original introduction to Chinese architecture, philosophy and cultural history.For more than three thousand years, Chinese life from the city and...

Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' — TRENT DALTON'Memorable and vivid' — RICHARD GLOVER'Lands with a thump in your heart' —...

Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge...

Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand A riveting blend of nature writing, Indigenous storytelling and great adventure in the NZ alps This book is about walking as a form...

Racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city The bestselling true-crime investigation by the author of All Our Relations. In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the...

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon — a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us....

The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. Growing up in the shadow of her superstar...

A collection that examines what it is like to grow up African in Australia and defies, questions and sheds light on the many stereotypes that exist about our nation's vibrant...

Quotes to Empower, Uplift and Inspire The world is full of Black heroes whose talent, strength and vision should inspire us all. From sporting greats and pioneering writers to world...

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictee is the story...

Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices — co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author...

A Cultural HistoryA groundbreaking book that explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-firstThe African diaspora — a direct result...

Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last fifty years of American history. In Music Is History, bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director...