The Strand
£25.00This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
£10.99Based on unprecedented interviews with key figures, this book reveals how the Treasury has been the major institution driving socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis
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Doggy people
£20.00This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.
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The Value of a Whale
£12.99This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodifying nature as the only way to do so.
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Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition
£25.00This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia’s international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms?
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Held in Contempt
£12.99The House of Commons is the United Kingdom’s key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This book examines what is wrong with the House of Commons, how we got here and what can be done about it.
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The Pound and the Fury
£14.99This book argues that misconceptions about the economy are rife in the general population and that this democractic deficit is caused by institutional bias and wilful misrepresentation at our most powerful institutions. This book exposes the structures of bias that distort public perceptions and understandings of the economy.
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Imperial Nostalgia
£14.99A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.
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Rebel women between the wars
£20.00An original history of 13 women from the interwar years, who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations from mountaineering, to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domesticity and into the active, public world.
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Love is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships
£20.00Love drugs and anti-love drugs exist and more powerful versions will be available in the near future: What are the ethics of using them, how will they affect society, and will they take the magic out of love? A cutting-edge book by two prominent ethicists on ‘love drugs’, and the implications they may have for us all.