Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom:...

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original...

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about...

Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.

From...

Now We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in British politics by taking a radically different perspective: the...

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life...

If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase...

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but...

How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future...

Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in.

Yanis Varoufakis, world...

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan’s...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies,...

The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from...

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London...

It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the...

Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact...

From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written...

I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first.

My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I'm twenty one...

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path...

The untold story of Britain's most secretive special forces unit

June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe....

America is in crisis.

In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with its...

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.

The...

What would a fair and equal society actually look like?

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No...

Malin... , Bell...

Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.

Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye...

If all the best people are in all the top jobs, then why is Britain such a fucking bin fire?

Britain is in a long-distance...

How are borders built in the modern world? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk...

In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to be the first to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became...

A brilliant, global look at Universal Basic Income - a regular payment given to everyone - and why it might be the answer to...

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from...