Polity Press
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Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
$16.95 Read moreThe election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many–despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about pa… [more below]
- Author: Gilligan, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1509529136
- Language: English
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Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke
$19.95 Read moreRight now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or “harmless” office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The
- Author: Ozkirimli, Umut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1509550925
- Language: English
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Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience
$35.00 Read morePain, while known to almost everyone, is not universal. The evidence of our own pain, and our own experience, does not provide us with automatic insight into the pains of others, past or present. No m
- Author: Boddice, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1509550542
- Language: English
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The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, the Remaking of Racism
$19.95 Read more“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving com
- Author: Goldberg, David Theo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558543
- Language: English
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The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
$22.95 Read moreIn 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but the
- Author: Hammel, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553770
- Language: English
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How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin
$14.95 Read moreMikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today’s Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia’s prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst o… [more below]
- Author: Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1509561056
- Language: English
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Moral Progress in Dark Times: Universal Values for the 21st Century
$35.00 Read moreThe challenges we face today are unprecedented, from the existential crisis of climate change to the global security threats posed by aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere. Add to this the crisis of lib
- Author: Gabriel, Markus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 13 2023
- ISBN10: 150954948X
- Language: English
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A History of Fatigue: From the Middle Ages to the Present
$35.00 Read more“Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload” the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves in
- Author: Vigarello, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1509549250
- Language: English
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China
$14.95 Read moreChina is poised to become the world’s largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Wes… [more below]
- Series: Polity Histories
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1509541489
- Language: English
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How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong
$14.95 Read moreIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intr
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559477
- Language: English
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Getting China Wrong
$24.95 Read moreThe West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would othe
- Author: Friedberg, Aaron L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1509560327
- Language: English
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The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist
$29.95 Read moreAs old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for a
- Author: Lunz, Kristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1509557830
- Language: English
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$14.95 Read moreOn 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century
- Author: Sasse, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1509560602
- Language: English
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Money for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide
$14.95 Read moreMoney is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn’t it be good to get out of the fog?
This book will help you understand both the way money wo
- Author: Wray, L. Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1509554610
- Language: English
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Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures
$19.95 Read moreJohn Forrester’s passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range an
- Author: Forrester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558128
- Language: English
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Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
$29.95 Read moreIs it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully co
- Author: Bateman, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556060
- Language: English
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Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning
$36.33 Add to cartAs a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.
Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker si
- Author: Jenkins, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 150953959X
- Language: English
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Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West
$19.95 Read moreFollowing the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across
- Author: Stokes, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1509554238
- Language: English
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The Empire of Depression: A New History
$24.95 Read moreDepression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, “depression” referred to a mood, not a sickness.
Does that mean people weren
- Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1509531653
- 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
