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Despised

Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class

Paul Embery

“Most voters lean left on economics and conservative on culture but no one represents them. Embery delivers a tight, passionately argued plea for the Left to rediscover its roots in social solidarity. Despised confirms Embery’s place as a leading force in the emerging left-conservative movement.”

Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift

November 2020

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The Disappearance of Butterflies

Josef H. Reichholf

“This is a brilliant, authoritative and iconoclastic challenge to the industrial farming that is destroying insect life. But Josef Reichholf’s lifetime of scrupulous scientific observation of butterflies and moths does not lead to despondency. He identifies overlooked solutions, from discarding fertiliser to embracing disorder and greening cities. And he reveals more of the miraculous biology of butterflies and moths, and their marvellous relationships with a whole web of life – including us.”

Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterly Isles

October 2020

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Pearl Harbor

Japan’s Attack and America’s Entry into World War II

Takuma Melber

“Melber clearly is on top of his subject matter, having mastered the story of Pearl Habor from the perspectives of both Japan and the United States. In so doing he offers fascinating new insights into what led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and thus to America’s entry into the Second World War. He displays a thorough knowledge of the Japanese and American literature, and he writes in a manner that is both accessible and authoritative. This is an excellent book and it will find a ready readership both among university students and among the general public.”

Richard Bessel, University of York

October 2020

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The Empire of Depression

A New History

Jonathan Sadowsky

“Drawing from medicine, psychology, anthropology and memoir, Jonathan Sadowsky shows how much the history of depression can inform how we understand it in the present day. A scholarly but immensely readable book which challenges dogmatic opinions about a complex condition which is ‘hard to manualise’ but sadly too often politicised.”

Linda Gask, writer and psychiatrist

October 2020

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What Is at Stake Now

My Appeal for Peace and Freedom

Mikhail Gorbachev

“I was fortunate in being with Margret Thatcher when she met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984. He did more to end the Cold War than anyone else and it ended without a shot being fired. We need to listen to his wise advice and encourage Vladimir Putin, not just Donald Trump, to act on it. Neither wants war but, as Gorbachev writes, we could end up with it by accident with the world being devastated.” 

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom

September 2020

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