The Covid-19 Catastrophe
What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
Richard Horton
The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today.
June 2020
How Everything Can Collapse
A Manual for our Times
Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens
“This is an important book… it deserves a wide readership among all concerned citizens – and, even more, among those who can influence policy.”
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
“It’s high time and a cause for rejoicing that this matter-of-fact, warm-blooded guide to societal collapse is now available in English.”
Joanna Macy, co-author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to The Work That Reconnects
May 2020
Pandemic!
COVID-19 Shakes the World
Slavoj Žižek
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences?
May 2020
A History of Solitude
David Vincent
“Superb… a remarkably versatile study.”
Terry Eagleton,The Guardian
At the dawn of the digital age, solitude has taken on new meanings, as physical isolation and intense sociability have become possible as never before. With the advent of a so-called loneliness epidemic, a proper historical understanding of the natural human desire to disengage from the world is more important than ever.
February 2020
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Bauman
A Biography
Izabela Wagner
“Who was Zygmunt Bauman? The late sociologist, known throughout the world for his path-breaking work on liquid modernity, had a biography. He was a Polish Jew, a soldier, a refugee. He had a whole life before Leeds. Izabela Wagner’s great achievement is to recover this other Bauman. This book will change the way we see Bauman, forever.”
Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University
June 2020
