Political Science

Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for England. But Ed’s heard a rumour: that in 1970, while defending the title, his granddad, his hero, was poisoned… by the CIA. All part of a Cold War plot to bolster a military dictatorship in Latin America, supposedly. Could this possibly be true? Banks did get ill in Mexico in 1970 with food poisoning. And England crashed out, marking the start of decades of hurt. Ed enlists the help of investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse.

Many worry that Britain is stuck in a doom loop of higher debt and higher taxes. In Not Bust Yet, Jeremy Hunt argues that getting out of Britain's low growth is a solvable problem, and that we should approach the country's economic future with optimism. Hunt asks the key questions: How...

In September 2024, Canadian influencer Lauren Southern suddenly found herself in the eye of a media storm, accused of spreading Russian propaganda. The US government had just alleged that the founders of the startup she’d been making videos for - Tenet Media - were working with Russian state media, in a $10 million Kremlin-backed operation. What exactly did Russia want with a group of YouTubers? And did they succeed? Who knew what was allegedly going on within Tenet Media, and when? And what does all of this say about where everyone gets their information?

Why do some leaders command absolute loyalty while others fall into ruin? The answer lies in a cold, hard truth Niccolò Machiavelli spoke centuries ago: the world is not as we wish it to be, but as it truly is. The Prince is the ultimate manual for strategic survival. By dissecting the fundamental questions of leadership—Is it better to be loved or feared? How does one master Fortune?—Machiavelli provides a roadmap for those who refuse to be victims of circumstance.

The most famous and important book on politics ever written The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the...

How did a remote desert people change the course of world history? In the seventh century AD, the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed—defeated by the rising power of Arabia. How did this happen? And why then? In this gripping new history, Nick Holmes offers a fresh view of the end of the Ancient...

«Cara Liviuccia, non preoccuparti per me. Ho raramente il mal di testa piccolo, mentre quello grande l'ho avuto solo sabato mattina, legato alla cena della notte precedente. Del resto, esiste la grazia di stato di cui sono testimone ormai da tanti anni...». Il mittente di questa lettera del 1960 è Giulio Andreotti e il destinatario è sua moglie Livia.

We were promised a global village; we got a gladiatorial arena. No longer just a tool for connection, social media has spawned an entire outrage industry harvesting and monetising our worst impulses. Welcome to the era of Angertainment. Angertainment shows how our emotions are being hijacked to...

Lo que ocurrió realmente el 23 de febrero de 1981 está claro hoy: no fue un intento de golpe de estado, sino una operación especial para reparar el sistema político. Una operación con la que estaba de acuerdo la mayor parte de la clase dirigente, y, por supuesto, la institución monárquica. En principio su objetivo era el de solucionar los problemas surgidos con el desarrollo del proceso autonómico, reformar la Constitución en aspectos que parecían necesarios, modificar la ley y proceso electoral, y acabar con la violencia terrorista.

Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think. Our nation’s past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What power can hold humanity together when fear, ambition, and violence threaten to tear it apart? In *Leviathan*, Thomas Hobbes builds one of the most formidable visions in political philosophy: a world where human beings, left without authority, fall...

In 1800, a young Welsh factory manager did something no one had ever tried before: he treated his workers like human beings. He raised their wages, shortened their hours, built schools for their children, and — to the astonishment of absolutely everyone — made more money than ever.

John Mappin is a sentinel of sovereignty, a modern mythmaker, and, willingly or not, a hero at history’s crossroads. From his defiant refusal to turn Camelot into a migrant-processing hotel to his prophetic wager on Donald Trump’s rise, Mappin has become a lightning rod for global battles; nationhood versus globalism, courage versus conformity, truth versus the psychiatric priesthood of lies. His close relationship with Charlie Kirk, his friendship with Candace Owens, and his associations with figures such as Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage show how his influence reaches across continents.

The U.S. liberal democratic capitalist system has fallen short of its pronouncements. This is evident in the notable challenges faced by the middle class, whose economic and social conditions have deteriorated, leading to discontent, apathy, and a decline in public trust in the country’s key institutions.

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American...

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She...

Alexander habe Achill nachgeahmt und Caesar den Alexander – doch wen haben sich die starken Männer der Gegenwart zum Vorbild genommen? »I am the chosen one«, wusste Donald Trump 2019 über sich zu berichten. Ein Fürst, der sich behaupten wolle, statuierte Machiavelli, müsse lernen, nicht gut zu sein.

Die Bundeswehr benötigt angesichts der dramatisch veränderten Sicherheitslage in Europa deutlich mehr Soldatinnen und Soldaten. Gleichzeitig ist die Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht hochumstritten. David Matei ist seit über 14 Jahren bei der Bundeswehr, zunächst zehn Jahre als Gebirgsjäger und zuletzt in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit als Jugendoffizier. Matei erzählt, was ihn zu diesem Dienst bewogen hat und warum er bereit ist, für sein Land zu kämpfen.

Inmunízate contra la desinformación Si somos tan inteligentes, ¿por qué caemos en tantas estupideces y atrocidades? ¿Por qué nos dejamos manipular por falsas creencias, teorías conspirativas y prejuicios? José Antonio Marina nos alerta de un peligro invisible pero real: los virus...

If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? This Very Short Introduction provides a new point of departure for our understanding of anarchism. Prichard...

Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with...

C’est vrai, le populisme gagne, les démocraties vacillent. Pourtant nous continuons de voter et n’est-ce pas là la preuve incontestable que la souveraineté populaire reste intacte ? Faut-il s'arrêter à ce fait d'autant que récemment plusieurs élections ont été niées, voire...

Our Next 250 Years: Representation and Influence by Charles Patton is a broad non-partisan examination of American democracy centered on a simple question: Do political structures created in the eighteenth century still provide meaningful influence for ordinary citizens in a nation of more than 300 million people? Patton explores representation, lobbying, campaign finance, constitutional history, rights, privacy, political parties, media influence, the courts, and concentrated wealth.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Leviatán: o la materia, forma y poder de una república eclesiástica y civil es una de las obras más influyentes de la filosofía política y un libro que, a pesar de haber sido escrito en el siglo XVII, sigue ofreciendo reflexiones sorprendentemente...

Un audaz periodista de investigación se adentra en el laberinto de influencias de la dinastía más poderosa de México para revelar cómo un sistema de favores y privatizaciones moldeó el destino de una nación entera. En La fórmula Salinas: Las redes del poder en México, el reconocido...