21st Century History: from c 2000

A New York Times bestseller and a passionate, urgent (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowl...

This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands o...

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms until now. Written in a style both i...

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's Iron Lady...

As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it - and try to push it in pr...

With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the ...

Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They ha...

This book begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteen...

The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain wh...

Noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of the Gulf monarchies is going to happen, and always was. The Gulf monarchies (S...

We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they're only fighting to save their skin.In 201...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE TIES ARE CUT? Whatever view you take on Brexit, innovative ideas are needed to thrive. The UK needs to get itself into sh...

The English are often confused about who they are. They say British when they mean English, and English when they should say British. But when Engl...

Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bure...

One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghu...

The Historic Documents series makes primary source research easy by presenting in one volume key excerpts from documents about the important events...

After serving in Congress for more than thirty years as both a congresswoman and a senator, Senator Boxer has proven herself to be a passionate adv...

Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to dest...

In 2007, journalist Nick Allen quit a secure job in Pakistan as a news agency writer to experience the life of foreign troops fighting the Taliban ...

'Lively and engaging' Financial Times'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not PropagandaEach time Ukraine has re...

HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR and NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Moder...