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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...

“A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."—Newsweek Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of...

Five Women. A Crumbling City. A Daring Flight to Freedom. August 2021. The fall of Kabul. Twenty years after they were defeated, the Taliban storms Afghanistan's capital, claiming every piece of land they pass and plunging the city into chaos. For Anjali and four other women, who were all from...

Sabato 21 luglio 2001, ultimo giorno del G8 di Genova, poco prima della mezzanotte, più di 300 operatori delle forze dell’ordine fanno irruzione nel complesso scolastico Diaz. In testa c’è il vii nucleo della ex Celere di Roma, seguono uomini delle squadre mobili e delle Digos mentre i carabinieri circondano l’edificio. In quella che il comandante Fournier definisce “una macelleria messicana” vengono arrestate e picchiate 93 persone sebbene non abbiano opposto alcuna resistenza.

1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder 11 Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of terror.

Brought to you by Penguin. At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there's one last taboo. We need to talk about porn. When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men as the producers and the consumers. Women as the product. Most women aren't talking...

To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and place, White Power uncovers how slaveholders created their own white supremacist police and government to deny Black people rights, power, and humanity.

In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over fifty years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption...

“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New Yorker The famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman. A...

The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday ‘Best Holiday Read 2024’ ‘A searing exposé’ Glamour ‘A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power’ – Observer From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce...

There was one partition of the land in 1947. Harsh Mander believes that another partition is underway in our hearts and minds. How much of this culpability lies with ordinary people? What are the responsibilities of a secular government, of a civil society, and of a progressive majority? In...

‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading’ – Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and Legacy of Violence 'Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like...

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of...

The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has...

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, 'WAITING FOR THE OUT' An Irish Times and The i Book of the Year 'Tense and intimate . . . an education' – Geoff Dyer 'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving' – Terry Waite Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. Every time he steps behind bars, he also confronts his...

Runt om i världen sörjer, skriker, firar människor när Hamid Noury grips i Stockholm. Fallet leder oss tillbaka till sommaren 1988–då tusentals politiska fångar avrättades i Iran. En av de som misstänks ha varit delaktig i avrättingarna är Hamid Noury. Nu är han här, i det lilla landet i norr. Hitlurad av en familjemedlem och genom osannolikt polisarbete gripen. Förberedelserna har pågått i flera och nu står han åtalad, misstänkt för folkrättsbrott och mord.

Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why war and terrorism? Why are men almost always the killers, and why are war and sex so inextricably linked? Why do we kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so?

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street...