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How did the USA become a superpower? Why do people go to war? And why are some countries rich while others are so poor? Find the answers to these questions and many more in this eye-opening book, which uses maps to explain how geography has shaped...

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Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who can marry...

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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century...

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An urgent debut set in multicultural London which takes the reader on a frightening journey into online radicalisation...

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The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson...

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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control...

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A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire...

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze of Big Brother, Winston Smith yearns for intimacy and love ...

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Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject...

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At the centre of this story, is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries in the fictional town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political...

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First published this Spring in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.

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Visionary in scale, and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from number one worldwide bestseller Ken Follett, Never imagines the unimaginable: the imminent threat of World War Three...

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All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics...

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George Orwells Dystopie »1984« hat auch über 70 Jahre nach ihrer Erstveröffentlichung nichts von ihrer Brisanz und Aktualität verloren. Seine albtraumhafte Vision des totalitären...

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George Orwells brillante Satire auf den korrumpierenden Einfluss der Macht zeigt eindringlich, dass Machtmissbrauch ein drängendes Problem jeder Gesellschaft ist - und dies ist heute so aktuell wie zur Entstehungszeit des Romans im Jahr 1945...

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The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth’s supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world’s superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars...

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