21st Century History: from c 2000

Starting with the basic question what is this place? , award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her beloved country...

Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politicsDevour the Land considers ...

The Guardian top 5 books on the housing crisis in the UK ''The housing crisis is just getting started,' warns Timperley in this important book.'  ...

'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dre...

Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually me...

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the be...

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and ...

The true story of the Talibans remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the U.S. militarys post-9/11 inc...

What issues will Myanmar need to address as it moves beyond the immediate complexities of a transition from an authoritarian state to a more plural...

After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear ...

Orwell''''s Faded Lion traces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wrote The...

New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented...

From demonstrating a petrol-engined double-decker at the 1905 Commercial Motor Show to building huge 100-seat Olympians for the overseas market, th...

Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate...

LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime ...

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprece...

New York Times bestseller An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accompl...

Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem. --Jon Stewart The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World...

As of early 2010, more than two million U.S. troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the American public is neither much engaged in the iss...

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