Politics and Government

Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of politica...

A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today’s liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the do...

'A fascinating and rigorous debunking of everything I thought I knew about nostalgia' - Pandora Sykes 'Absorbing' - Guardian'Arnold-Forster is a sh...

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedomDespite its manifest failures, the narr...

Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today -- and has been been for ove...

Coup d’État astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968 because it showed, step by step, how governments could be overthrown. Translated into...

A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to failNamed a Financial Times Be...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012The oi...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and la...

Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constit...

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who ...