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The Scent of Empires

Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow

Karl Schlögel

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes?
“Schlögel is a master storyteller.”

Frankfurter Rundschau

May 2021

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Post Growth

Life after Capitalism

Tim Jackson

‘Empowering and elegiac’

Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now

‘Utterly inspiring’

Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party

‘A masterpiece of measured rage and love.’

Jonathan Porritt, author of Hope in Hell

March 2021

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9781509541386

Modern Epidemics

From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

Salvador Macip

COVID-19 has made us all aware of the fact that we live in a world full of invisible enemies. What are these invisible enemies, and how can we prepare ourselves for the pandemics of the future? A specialist in the cellular biology of diseases, Salvador Macip explains, in a language everyone can understand, what it means to share the planet with millions of microbes – some wonderful allies, others terrible foes.

March 2021

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9781509541386

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries.
“John Thompson was there when the digital-driven changes were in full swing, and he uses his bird’s-eye view and thoroughly researched analysis to give the reader the story behind the stories. And it’s a great read too.”

John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA

March 2021

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The COVID-19 Catastrophe

What’s Gone Wrong and How To Stop It Happening Again

2nd Edition

Richard Horton

“This is the book to read if you want to understand the response to COVID-19. Powerful, beautifully written and reflective. Richard Horton at his best.”

Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh

January 2021

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New Books
  • American Political Thought
    Ken Kersch
  • Is Austerity Gendered?
    Diane Perrons
  • Colonial Trauma
    Karima Lazali
  • National Identity and State Formation in Africa
    Manuel Castells, 
    Bernard Lategan
  • Decolonizing Politics
    Robbie Shilliam
  • The Object Relation
    Jacques Lacan
  • Resources of Christianity
    François Jullien
  • Latino Politics
    Lisa García Bedolla, 
    Christian Hosam
Highlights
  • Freedom of the Border
    Paul Scheffer
  • Correspondence, 1939 - 1969
    Theodor W. Adorno, 
    Gershom Scholem
  • The Ungovernable Society
    Grégoire Chamayou
  • The Enduring Kiss
    Massimo Recalcati
  • The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval
    Mark Garnett
  • The Wealth Hoarders
    Chuck Collins
  • The Woods
    Vladimir Bibikhin
  • After the Apocalypse
    Srećko Horvat
In the News
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27MAR
Chuck Collins, author of The Wealth Hoarders, interviewed in The New York Post
04MAR
The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval reviewed in The Telegraph
05FEB
Just Deserts reviewed in Nature

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