This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.
'Betts and Collier offer innovative insights into how to more effectively meet this challenge, with an important new focus on international solidarity and refugee empowerment' Kofi Annan'Refugees and policy makers need practical answers to what is now a global crisis.
THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSLongstanding Labour MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of what went so wrong with Westminster and how we might solve it.
'We are here laying down principles [of democracy] for days to come, for generations, for the nation' In 1946, the Indian Constituent Assembly was tasked with formulating the document that would soon govern the largest democracy in the world.
Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South.
Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South.
THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSLongstanding Labour MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of what went so wrong with Westminster and how we might solve it.
As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for DemocracyFinalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionAn NPR Politics Podcast Book Club ChoiceNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public LibraryFrom the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling-and timely-history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.
Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and day-to-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people currently renting privately in the UK.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is brutally honest about our problems but never loses hope that we can build a better democracy' Rory Stewart'An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative .
From East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects is a vital compilation of Chomsky's writings on a broad array of subject material.
