Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
by Susan Neiman

* Susan Neiman is one of the most distinguished scholars writing today. Her previous book, Evil in Modern Thought, has been widely hailed as a classic...

Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
by Douglas Rushkoff

* ‘Something has gone terribly wrong. We are deep in the thrall of a system that no one really likes, no one remembers asking for, yet no one can esca...

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles
by Benedict Gummer

* Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions ...

The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World
by Dominique Moisi

In 1993 Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations offered a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ...

The Rise and Fall of Communism
by Archie Brown

* The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and it...

Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade
by Philip Augar

In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. The incoming Labour government gave the Bank of England independence, it introduced a...

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
by Nicholas Stern

* Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we liv...

'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945 - 1948
by Norman Rose

* The troubles in Palestine between the end of the Second World War and the declaration of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948 ruptured Middle Eastern ...

Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
by Paul Collier

* In Wars, Guns and Votes, award-winning author Paul Collier investigates the violence and poverty in the countries at the bottom of the world economy...

Hitler's Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life
by Timothy W. Ryback

* He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 1...