Politics / Current Events
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The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
$18.00 Read moreAn engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged–and how to adapt to this new reality
“This brisk everyman’s guide–straight-talking and free of jargon–is a useful tasting menu to a f- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270410
- Language: English
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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
$19.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread wit… [more below]
- Author: Warrick, Joby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0804168938
- Language: English
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Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements
$22.95 Read more*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Heroic Journeys
“All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.”–Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace
A powerful ne
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021882
- Language: English
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The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)
$15.95 Read morePopulists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can’t get ahead, wages have been stag
- Series: New Threats to Freedom
- Author: Strain, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 159947557X
- Language: English
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An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics
$30.00 Read more“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the … [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593321529
- Language: English
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The January 6th Report Executive Summary
$12.99 Read moreThe fastest way to understand the historic January 6th Report is this definitive edition of the Select Committee’s Executive Summary of the Report to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United S… [more below]
- Author: Select Committee on Jan 6th
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890865
- Language: English
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Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War
$30.00 Read moreBy 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia’s lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The
- Author: Doyle, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1631496069
- Language: English
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Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
$26.00 Read moreAward-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and h… [more below]
- Author: Sundaram, Anjan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164622115X
- Language: English
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A War Made in Russia
$19.95 Read moreIn this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation … [more below]
- Author: Medvedev, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558403
- Language: English
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Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism
$34.95 Read moreIn Agent of Change Huda Mukbil takes us behind the curtain of a leading spy agency during a fraught time, recounting her experiences as an intelligence officer for the Canadian Security Intelligence S… [more below]
- Author: Mukbil, Huda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 022801655X
- Language: English
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
$24.00 Read morePicador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault’s prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Coll ge de France from 1970 to 1984
The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the th- Series: Lectures at the College de France #7
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312203411
- Language: English
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Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape
$14.95 Add to cartAnti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems of control in our cyberpunk reality.
Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of- Author: Horizon, Acid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1915672090
- Language: English
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Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics
$34.95 Read moreMethodism in the public and private lives of the politician
After more than forty contentious years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in the nation.
- Author: Smith, Gary Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0252045319
- Language: English
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
$20.00 Read more“A magnificent, engagé investigative report… [an] act of witness…It is clear from [Hayden’s book] that the current politics of immigration have turned & twisted human nature against itself and ou… [more below]
- Author: Hayden, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890571
- Language: English
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
$34.95 Add to cartThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned–and notorious–militant union organizer (… [more below]
- Author: McAlevey, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1781683158
- Language: English
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Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust
$35.00 Read moreGermans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?
As reports of mass killings- Author: Port, Andrew I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0674275225
- Language: English
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Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself
$28.99 Read moreWhat does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics.
As a congressional staffer in the Un- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 166801243X
- Language: English
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Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace
$19.95 Read moreThere are no unorganisable workers, only workers yet to be organised.
There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech- Author: Hughes, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767103
- Language: English
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Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Proposal for Peace
$17.95 Read moreThis stunning commentary on the cultural and political background to the war in Vietnam resonates deeply as the first work of Vietnamese writer, peace activist, and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
This- Author: Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1952692032
- Language: English
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The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession
$19.95 Read moreA Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis
After decades of retreat, the last decade saw a left resurgence from the US to Western Europe and the- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Jager, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292486
- Language: English
