Non-fiction

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how...

How can the left be credible when it can’t decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is...

Translated by Kate Nash, Gary Wilder This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue –...

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization,...

Putting culture back in Agriculture.A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future.Yarning across...

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future. Monsters are central to how we...

Maori have lived on Te Tai Poutini for at least as long as anywhere else on these islands called New Zealand, bound by ancient stories and a unique affinity to...

Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century This microhistory of a shipping accident reveals how racialized labour management fuelled maritime capitalism in the age of imperialist globalization...

Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century A timely and in depth exploration of the political, aesthetic, and institutional developments in women's documentary filmmaking across the globe. In what innovative...

Translated by Max Weiss Either we die here, or we escape together. A deeply moving story of courage in the face of unimaginable adversity. In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed...

A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great...

An Illustrated Introduction to the History, People, Culture and Beyond Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, this book chronicles “ major” events which led to the rise and fall...

How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply...

The global contest for breakthrough technologies In this groundbreaking book, Mehran Gul maps the recent waves of technological advancement up until the current moment to show how innovation becomes a...

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEA FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once...

A Story Of Names And Reclaiming Who We Are A fascinating and beautiful mix of memoir, global naming trends and reclaiming who we are. Our names are a shadow we...

Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized...

Places and People of the New Zealand Wars An accessible guide to significant places and people of the New Zealand Wars from a Maori perspective. This comprehensive guidebook journeys through...

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human....

Our blood has stories to tell, and we are told stories about blood. Globally, blood is a story that is built — whose blood counts, whose blood spills and whose...

Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora Exploring family stories reveals the rich history of a seventh-century Buddhist shrine. As a young girl in Bombay, Kirin Narayan was enthralled by her...

How can we make media anti-racist? The rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was...

A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced...

Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance. Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the...

Representing the collaborative efforts of Ngardi Elders and linguists over more than 40 years, this is the most comprehensive documentation ever of Ngardi, a language of the northern Western Desert...

An amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda...

Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very...

A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated...

A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure An unapologetic guide for readers who are Black, masc, and bi—unlearning biphobia, coming out, combatting erasure, and...

From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates,...

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan...

Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria Revolutionary black feminist Andree Blouin's memoir of Africa's liberation struggles “We who have been colonized can never forget” Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman...

How the Islamic Republic has built a sphere of influence in the Middle East - and why it maintains it In recent decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has poured...

How to Build a Disability-Inclusive World An urgent and compelling investigation into unpacking your biases and building a disability-inclusive and accessible world In The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, founder of Diversability and...

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and...

The first major cookbook on Pakistani food, Pakistan puts this delicious and varied cuisine in its cultural context.Thanks to shared borders with Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran, and a history of migration...

For many third-culture kids in the Asian diaspora, the sight and sound of clacking mahjong tiles conjures deep-seated memories. Some learned to play alongside elders, while others watched from afar. Maybe you...

The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad investigates the modern history of...

The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do and Who We Want to Be From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover how you can harness the...

Why the Indian Farmers went on strike The first responders to India's climate challenges Under colonial rule in India in 1917, Mohandas K Gandhi led a satyagraha alongside local farmers...

The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged Society...

Divining with Tarot, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, and More In Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling, Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele share the knowledge and personal experiences of being raised to be fortune-tellers....

Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers Though the United States has been heralded...

The Struggle for Democracy An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a...

Award-winning and best-sellling, Mau Moko is the closest there has ever been to a 'complete' book on moko. 'Very likely to become the definitive work on the subject . ....

A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future An urgent book on generative artificial intelligence exploring the risk and benefits looming in this seminal moment The debut of ChatGPT on November...

INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024 "Travel at its best - life...

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite...

A delectable collection that serves up Chinese flavour beyond its taste 'I started stitching together my story through a different, universal language: food.' An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our...