2023 releases

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity

$24.99
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of...
The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins

$27.99
Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first timeIn...
Caste

Caste

$26.99
The Origins of Our DiscontentsFrom 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 hierarchy of...
Between Starshine and Clay

Between Starshine and Clay

$32.99
Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo Award-winning author and cultural critic Sarah Ladipo Manyika takes us on a remarkable journey across contemporary cultural and political landscapes as she talks to some of...
Tragic Nation: Burma

Tragic Nation: Burma

$94.99
The February 2021 coup demonstrates the tragic politics of a land whose strategic location, rich culture, and bountiful resources should have made it a leading nation of AsiaA decade ago,...
Surviving the Future

Surviving the Future

$39.99
Abolitionist Queer StrategiesForeword by Mimi Thi NguyenSurviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory.Beset by a new pandemic,...
Kingdom of Characters

Kingdom of Characters

$24.99
The Language Revolution that Made China ModernA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in...
Courting India

Courting India

$34.99
*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023*A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India...
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

$24.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK...
Fear of Black Consciousness

Fear of Black Consciousness

$26.99
An original and radical reframing of anti-Black racism in popular culture, history and artLewis Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism, has spent decades nurturing intellectual reflection as...
White Torture

White Torture

$42.99
Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsWith a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winnerExtended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe...
The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

$24.99
This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize the wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the...
Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (Quarterly Essay 90)

Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (Quarterly Essay 90)

$27.99
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of AustraliaAt Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming...
Africa is Not a Country

Africa is Not a Country

$24.99
Breaking Stereotypes of Modern AfricaDefinitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a...
Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

$22.99
The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who...
India After Gandhi

India After Gandhi

$49.99
An updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper...
Right Story, Wrong Story

Right Story, Wrong Story

$35.00
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe.Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on...
Silk

Silk

$37.99
A history in three metamorphoses There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a...
Quick Fixes: Drugs in American Capitalism

Quick Fixes: Drugs in American Capitalism

$34.99
Quick fixes from Prohibition to the 21st-century bingeAmericans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics-across the board, consumption has shot up in...
The Milky Way

The Milky Way

$29.99
After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing...
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts

$32.99
How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all? In this bold...
Uncommon Wealth

Uncommon Wealth

$24.99
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...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know

$32.99$22.99
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous...
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

$32.99
An astonishing work of creative non-fiction from one one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, that reignites the brilliant spark of a young woman erased and illuminates an epidemic of femicide...
The Psychosis of Whiteness

The Psychosis of Whiteness

$55.00
Surviving the insanity of a racist worldAn all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the...
The Secret Lives of Numbers

The Secret Lives of Numbers

$36.99
A history of mathematics and its unsung trailblazersAn authoritative, accessible and revisionist history of maths that reveals the vital contributions of mathematicians from across the world and of all gendersThe...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

$24.99
‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly...