Category Archives: Accessories
A People`s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution – Centenary Edition with New Introduction
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People`s Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.`A modern masterpiece` Andrew Marr`The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago` IndependentOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself. ** Winner of the US National Book Award**Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the journey of racist ideas from fifteenth-century Europe to present-day America through the lives of
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control
Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands, `one of the most influential thinkers of our time` (Sunday Times). Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy and adventure. Today
Another Now : Dispatches from an Alternative Present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and
