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  • SOFT POWER BPB

    WINDER, ROBERT
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    In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'. It is the power of friendly persuasion rather than command, and i...

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    South Africa's corporatised liberation

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  • Surviving Autocracy

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    'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Since Trump's inauguration in 2016, a new mantra has taken ho...

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    The Accidental Mayor: Herman Mashaba And The Battle For Johannesburg (Paperback)

    Michael Beaumont
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    In August 2016, well-known South African businessman Herman Mashaba became mayor of Johannesburg, heading a razor-thin DA-led coalition in the city...

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  • The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change

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    SHORTLISTED FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK BY A PARLIAMENTARIAN AT THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2021 'Read this book!' Caroline Lucas 'My money's on ...

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  • The Assassination Complex: Inside the US government's secret drone warfare programme

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    In this shocking expose of the US government's drone programme, bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website T...

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  • The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

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    Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas.The two-time Pu...

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  • The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change

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    In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, p...

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  • The Price of Paradise

    Iain Overton
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    We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last...

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  • The SABC8

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  • The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

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    A radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wantsFrom Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants...

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  • Understanding South Africa (Paperback)

    Carien du Plessis, Martin Plaut
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    This is the go-to guide for confused South Africans and all those seeking an informed, balanced and up-to-date analysis of South African politics a...

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  • Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now

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    'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent ...

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  • We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' To...

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    The Whistleblowers (Paperback)

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    Whistleblowers are seldom seen as heroes. Instead, they are often viewed through a negative lens, described as troublemakers, disloyal employees, t...

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  • Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

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    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book...

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  • Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

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    For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked th...

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  • Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

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    When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We w...

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  • Why War?

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  • On Leadership (Paperback)

    Tony Blair
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    The must-read new book on the art and science of leadership, from former Prime Minister and Labour leader, Tony Blair'Engaging, insightful, provoca...

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    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Mary Wollstonecraft
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    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I tre...

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  • Mein Kampf (Paperback)

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  • Punishing Putin (Paperback)

    Stephanie Baker
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    An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’...

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    The Prosectuor (Trade Paperback)

    Jack Fairweather
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    THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER The true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after W...

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  • The Communist Manifesto: The Modern South African Edition

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    '...the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.' The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Inc...

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  • How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive

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    'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA HOYER'Utterl...

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  • A Discourse on Inequality

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    In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creati...

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  • How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism

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    How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep.Award-winning au...

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  • The History Of Ideas

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    'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse...

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  • A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (Paperback)

    Alex La Guma
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    In 1978, the activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925–1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in the Soviet Union. Today it stand...

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  • After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future

    Andrew Feinstein
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    How did Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki repress debate within the party, impose his AIDS denialism on government, refuse to criticize Mugabe's rule...

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  • Doing Business in Africa

    Rufaro Nyakatawa
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  • The Prince

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    Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Pengui...

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  • Age of Revolutions (Hard Cover)

    Fareed Zakaria
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  • The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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    An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselli...

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  • Who Owns the Moon? In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space (Hardcover)

    A. C. Grayling
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    Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles.The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth’s supplies...

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  • Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

    Gordon Brown
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  • The Prince (Collins Classics)

    Niccola Machiavelli
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  • Chinese conundrum

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  • The Party's Over: The Rise And Fall Of The Conservatives From Thatcher To Sunak

    Phil Burton-Cartledge
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  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (Paperback)

    Naomi Klein
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    What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?When Naomi Klein discovered that...

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  • The January 6 Report

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    The official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related...

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  • Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 (Trade Paperback)

    Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
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    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature o...

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  • The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
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    The unabridged versions of these definitive works are now available together in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with an introduction by Mar...

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    A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

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    'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our ...

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  • Babel Unbound: Rage, reason and rethinking public life

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    The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of the democratic project and often centres on an imag...

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  • Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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    Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of a...

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  • Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1194-2019

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    South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has undergone dramatic changes over the last thirty years. Historically a hotb...

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