Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons

The Ultimate EU Test Book Assistants 2024 is specially designed for candidates preparing for European Personnel Selection office (EPSO) competitions at Assistant (AST) level. It has been updated to the new format of EPSO competitions introduced in 2023 and further revised in 2024. It is relevant to all Assistant-level EPSO open competitions and equivalent CAST selections.

The book is packed with strategies for success, practical tips and advice, and test questions. Included are methodologies,...

Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity?

A timely account of the emerging superpower that is India and the rise and rise of the Bollygarchs

Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before.

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11

Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperat...

In this essential guide, the team of expert authors explore the politics of a range of European countries, providing insight into everything you need to know on the subject, from the fundamentals of democratic politics, institutions, and practices of government, to key contemporary challenges.

Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. This book gives an account of how modern espionage works.

'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.

Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Pa...