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What Is Populism?
2017 || Paperback || Jan-Werner Muller || Penguin Books Ltd
'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway and who can speak in their name? These questions have never been more pr...
The Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
2025 || Paperback || George Monbiot e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
Has the West Lost It?
A Provocation
2019 || Paperback || Kishore Mahbubani || Penguin Books Ltd
'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns.
How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, ...
Tyranny of the Minority
How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All
2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...
The Social Contract
2004 || Paperback || Jean-Jacques Rousseau || Penguin Books Ltd
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.
They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
The Light that Failed
A Reckoning
2020 || Paperback || Ivan Krastev e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liber...
On Palestine
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. This book offers hope and a way forward for all those committed to the struggle to liberate Palestine.
Orientalism
Western Conceptions of the Orient
2024 || Paperback || Edward W. Said || Penguin Books Ltd
The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. H...
The Politics of Time
Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty
2024 || Paperback || Guy Standing || Penguin Books Ltd
Empireworld
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
2025 || Paperback || Sathnam Sanghera || Penguin Books Ltd