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
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
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
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
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
