Polity Press
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Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex
$35.00 Add to cartWe take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel
- Author: Cleves, Rachel Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553630
- Language: English
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Hubris: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Humanity
$29.95 Add to cartHumans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life, and at the same time find ourselve
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509562613
- Language: English
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The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time
$25.00 Add to cartNo German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature. He inspired Samuel Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Illies, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1509567542
- Language: English
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How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
$29.95 Read moreFor decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climat… [more below]
- Author: Beckert, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565094
- Language: English
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The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
$25.00 Add to cartWhat if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K.
- Author: Hanson, Stephen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1509563156
- Language: English
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Matter: The Magnificent Illusion
$25.00 Add to cartWhat are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter – the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up the
- Author: Tonelli, Guido
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1509564144
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Add to cartIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History
$29.95 Read moreA war is being waged against the Past. Whether it’s toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past toxic… [more below]
- Author: Furedi, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1509561250
- Language: English
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Left Is Not Woke
$14.95 Add to cartIf you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.
The confusion arises
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564101
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Hope
$19.95 Add to cartA spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization… [more below]
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: November 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1509565191
- Language: English
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The Truth about English Grammar
$25.00 Read moreDo you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn’t what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been passed
- Author: Pullum, Geoffrey K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560548
- Language: English
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Land Sickness
$12.95 Add to cartAs a heatwave hits Paris, the author’s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing
- Author: Schultz, Nikolaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556133
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Profit: An Environmental History
$99.93 Add to cartProfit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems
- Series: Environmental History
- Author: Stoll, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1509533230
- Language: English
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The World According to China
$24.95 Read moreAn economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world’s population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s bold calls for China to lead in the reform
- Author: Economy, Elizabeth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1509537503
- Language: English
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00 Read moreMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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A Brief Global History of the Left
$24.95 Read moreWhat is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the mo
- Author: Sand, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: January 31 2024
- ISBN10: 150955825X
- Language: English
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When Science Meets Power
$29.95 Read moreScience and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between
- Author: Mulgan, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553061
- Language: English
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Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present
$35.00 Read moreWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This boo
- Author: Guiheux, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1509552499
- Language: English
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The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
$22.95 Read moreFor decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide trilli… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 150954349X
- Language: English
