Politics

The World after Covid-19Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19...

The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to AmalgamationWhat do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: From Jihad to...

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...

A Sermon to White AmericaAs America grapples with race with anguish and anger at a level not seen since the 60s, one of America's leading Black voices speaks out honestly...

Long-term population directions, in terms of both size and age composition, drive the destiny of all nations. While for decades we have worried about global overpopulation, it is far more...

The second psychological thriller from Trisha Sakhlecha, author of Your Truth or Mine? In politics there is always someone determined to reveal past secrets, and now a young Indian minister...

A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump EraIn this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into...

In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin — Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime adviser — emerges from the wings of American political history to take...

Routes to a more just future 20 accessible essays covering the ethical and justice based dimensions of responses to the pandemic from a group of leading and emerging political philosophers....

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

The voices Australia should hear100% of the proceeds from this title will go to the Asylum Seeker Resource CentreThis beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who have lived...

Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, and how we can channel it back into the fights...

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...

Economic Possibilities from a Global PerspectiveHong Kong is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. In the 1980s and 1990s, and to a...

Life as Dr Mahathir's DaughterThis is Marina Mahathir's story, from her perspective and no one else's. It is, she hopes, the answer to the question — What is it like...

How we lose it and how we fight back This urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are....

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...

An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country of Kenya Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is...

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...

A critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran — an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of...

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...

Essays from the Pan-African Revolution Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora —...

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...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern...

How To Be an Activist GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON'T GIVE UP. In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl...

'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.' Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir...

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...

We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future....

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher. Liberalism — the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism — has never been so divisive...

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...