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The Courage to Welcome


What does it mean to lead with compassion in a world riven by fear, at a time when the responses to forced displacement hold the power to reshape communities? How can institutions and individuals sustain solidarity amid rising divisio? his moving reflection of Filippo Grandi’s ten years as UN High Commissioner for Refugees and four decades spent working in humanitarian crises across the world addresses the growing complexity of forced displacement, its repercussions for international relations, and the challenges it poses for governments. Grandi calls for greater cooperation between nations and considers measures – along displacement routes and in host countries – which would provide life-saving assistance to refugees as well as preserve international cooperation and goodwill. He suggests a universal responsibility not to exacerbate division but to work diligently on the space between pragmatism and principle. Taking up this challenge, Catherine Ashton’s response to Grandi draws on her own distinguished leadership during some of the most important moments that have shaped contemporary diplomacy, and suggests how enduring principles can be retained within the realities of public life.
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12,49 €

The Blindspot


WHAT IS POWER, WHO KNOWS ABOUT IT AND HOW DID THEY FIND OU? ower lurks in every relationship, interaction and transaction but is scarcely understood even by those who wield it most. In The Blindspot, executive coach Douglas Board and priest Martin Henwood offer a radical, accessible and practical exploration of power which breaks new ground. The book reflects on more than sixty real-life incidents, including forty from the authors’ personal and professional experience. These range from corporate misconduct and gross abuse of authority in hospitals, churches and schools, to whistleblowing at Uber, leadership change at Sainsbury’s and selection decisions in the heart of government. The authors expose how poorly our elite leaders understand power. This missing knowledge they place in your hands. The Blindspot uses the idea of human chess to examine how we are all, at every moment, pieces playing and being played on multiple boards simultaneously. It analyses how knowledge about power is distributed across society, predicts the rise of the first power-literate generation, and suggests how all of us can accelerate this future.
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22,99 €

Captives and Companions


**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighth-century concubines and ninth-century revolts, thirteenth-century slave soldiers who established dynastic rule over Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, eighteenth-century corsairs and twentieth-century pearl divers in the Gulf. It also has first-hand accounts of this legacy in the twenty-first century, including the depredations of Daesh and continuing hereditary slavery in Mali and Mauritania. Justin Marozzi traces the extraordinary variety of enslavement in the Islamic world, which ranged from agricultural labour and domestic toil to elite concubinage, guardianship of sacred spaces, political leadership and even military command. He shows how Africa bore the brunt of the demand for slave labour, fuelled throughout the nineteenth century by expanding global markets and commodity chains. Slavers plied African coasts, traders raided inland for human cargo, and millions were marched across the Sahara into captivity. Meanwhile, North African corsairs turned the Mediterranean into a slave-raiding 'free-for-all' between Muslims, Christians and Jews. Taking the reader on an extraordinary historical journey from Baghdad to Bamako, Tripoli to Timbuktu, Istanbul to the Black Sea, this is the riveting human drama of those caught up in one of history's most remarkable overlooked stories.
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24,99 €

Manners and Mischief


Filled with sparkling anecdotes and tales of living life to the full, featuring previously unseen photographs from Lady Glenconner's personal collection. Lady Anne Glenconner, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret and Maid of Honour at the Queen’s Coronation, returns with a rich, sparkling memoir told through an A to Z of her life. From affairs of the heart and Basil’s Bar to dinners with the King and the art of entertaining each chapter reveals a vivid moment of joy, mischief or resilience. Whether offering tips on getting out of the bath with grace, or how to lose at cards with Princess Margaret, she shares wisdom and memory in equal measure. This book is a love letter to a disappearing world and a reminder that life, at any age, should be faced with laughter, a stiff upper lip, and the odd vodka tonic.
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14,99 €

Breakneck


The New York Times bestseller, Financial Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year The book we need to understand China today: a riveting, first-hand account of its seismic progress from an indispensable expert voice For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China's tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout society. China has grown so quickly in part by beating America at its own game: capitalism and harnessing the restless energy of a vast population. Here Wang blends political and economic analysis with reportage into a provocative new framework for understanding China - one that helps us see America more clearly, too. Whereas China is an engineering state, relentlessly building big, the United States has transformed into a lawyerly society, stalling every attempt to make change, both good and bad. As relations between the US and China are tense and uncertain and the potential for dreadful conflict looms, Wang offers an inventive new way of thinking about the two superpowers. Breakneck reveals that each country points towards a better path for the other. How much better the world would be, he argues, if Americans could live in a society not only governed by lawyers, and Chinese citizens could live with a state that values their individual liberties.
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18,99 €

Superhero Leadership


'Peter Cuneo distills a lifetime of courageous leadership into timeless lessons for a world in flux' Soledad O'Brien Peter Cuneo, who rescued Marvel Entertainment from near bankruptcy and orchestrated its $4.5 billion Disney sale, knows leadership. In Superhero Leadership he distils decades of turnaround expertise into leadership fundamentals. Drawing from successful transformations at Marvel, Black & Decker, Remington, and Clairol, Cuneo identifies the essential attitudes, philosophies, behaviours and instincts that define transformative leadership. Through narratives and case studies, he teaches core competencies including company values, culture building, change management, crisis leadership, and self-maintenance - equipping readers to become leaders who inspire loyalty, drive success and unlock their team's full potential.
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22,99 €

Smartphone Nation


A social media ban for under 16s does not make the problem disappear. Teenagers will have to use their devices differently now and Smartphone Nation provides the practical solutions you and your family need to take back control. In this acclaimed book, Dr Kaityn Regehr, one of the world’s leading digital literacy experts, gives you the knowledge and the language to explain the reasons behind the ban, why social media can be so harmful and the often disturbing reasons why we each see the particular content we do. The tools in Smartphone Nation are there to help you understand, advocate, and parent around these tricky, constantly changing issues. From issues of misinformation, body dysmorphia, pornography, to online bullying, this essential guide helps you and your family become more intentional over screen usage – whatever the screen you are using.
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17,99 €

10 omylov, ktoré zmenili dejiny


Všetci robíme chyby, no len málokto svojím prešľapom zmení chod dejín. Kniha 10 omylov, ktoré zmenili dejiny prináša vtipný a osviežujúci výber neúmyselných pochybení, ktorým sa to podarilo – raz to bol rozchod, čo pochoval impérium, inokedy spánok poslal ku dnu pýchu lodiarstva. Britský historik a komik Paul Coulter si posvietil na kľúčové postavy a udalosti posledných dvoch tisícročí. Za nablýskanou fasádou moci a egom božských rozmerov – či išlo o fascinujúcu Kleopatru, alebo o tragédiu Titanicu – sa totiž často skrývali až príliš obyčajné ľudské zlyhania. Zabudnite na nudné učebnice. Prichádza dejepis, ktorý vás bude baviť: hitparáda katastrofálnych rozhodnutí, pomýleného hrdinstva a totálnej straty súdnosti. Autor rozpráva príbehy, ktoré formovali náš svet a mali priam neuveriteľné následky. Napokon, človeku sa hneď lepšie zaspáva s vedomím, že nech už dnes pokazil hocičo, najväčšie postavy histórie to dokázali zbabrať ešte oveľa ukážkovejšie.
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Notebooks for the Grandchildren


Notebooks for the Grandchildren is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s, Mikhail Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes—and its tragic unraveling under Stalin. He narrates how Stalin rose to power and carried out the “political counterrevolution” that silenced so many. Arrested three times by the Stalin regime, Baitalsky survived to tell the story of what happened.
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64,49 €

Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction


The first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the processes of class-based educational formation and the function of schools. Drawing largely on unpublished writings that have been overlooked by scholars of both Althusser and critical pedagogy, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction reveals that, for Althusser and the Groupe Spinoza, educational formation and the position of knowledge are central, decisive issues in understanding the real forces driving the mechanisms of social reproduction. This perspective enables a critical interrogation of knowledge transmission and opens up new possibilities for transformative educational practices.
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33,49 €

Beyond the Tricolour


Beyond the Tricolour explores the history of internationalism through individuals and political organizations who took practical action in defense of internationalist principles. Birchall looks at committed internationalists who argued against nationalism, racism and war but have too often been neglected by mainstream history. The book focuses on the context of French history, and the French socialist and working-class movement in particular. Beginning from the defense of Dreyfus against anti-Semitism, it covers antimilitarism before 1914, opposition to the First World War, the advent of Communism, then the rise of Stalinism, fraternization with German soldiers during the Nazi occupation, and support for national independence in Indochina and Algeria.
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45,99 €

The Political Economy of South Africa's Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism


South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. But what caused this unfortunate trajector? oday, the country is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists who have benefitted from the globalization, neoliberalization and financialization of the economy in general, and from its Minerals-Energy and Financial Complex in particular. By contrast, inequalities, poverty and failing social provision have persisted. Recent attention has shifted to how this trajectory was initiated, with some suggesting a lack of available alternative policy options at the time of transition. The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition shows this to be false. In fact, a full range of progressive alternatives were rejected, leading to corresponding consequences from “state capture” to electoral defeat.
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45,99 €

Red Flags


Red Flags is a visual field guide to modern behaviour — part satire, part mirror, and part survival manual. Created by Belgian designer and visual storyteller Bart Kiggen, the book unpacks the characters, archetypes, and micro-cultures that shape our digital and emotional lives. From the Ghoster to the Apex Pretender, from the Brand Messiah to the Yuppie Mephistopheles, each red flag is drawn, described, and decoded with wit and precision. Blending staged photography, cultural critique, and design, Red Flags turns online performance into visual anthropology. It examines how attention became identity and how charisma, care, or confidence can all tip into manipulation. Each portrait is both absurd and familiar, reminding us that the red flags we recognise in others often reflect our own. In this carefully composed and conceptually sharp book, Bart Kiggen uses imagery, humour, and typography to explore the psychology of the age of exposure. Red Flags invites readers to look closer, laugh more softly, and perhaps notice a few signals in themselves before it’s too late.
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29,49 €

The Game of Life and How to Play It


Learn powerful manifestation techniques from the renowned Law of Attraction writer, Florence Scovel Shinn, in this beautifully illustrated, full-colour guide.Manifest Your Destiny distils the best and clearest advice taken from Shinn''s celebrated work, The Game of Life and How to Play It, in this handy hardback volume.As well as practical advice on how to use your thoughts and words to attract and manifest the outcomes you would like to see, this appealing edition is an excellent introduction to the author who popularized this form of positive life philosophy in the early 20th century.Discover how to:• Keep your thoughts positive and powerful• Attract the relationships you want• Set clear intentions for prosperity• Maintain your faith in manifestation. With immediately actionable steps, this abridged self-help classic will give you everything you need to manifest your destiny.
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17,99 €

Jeruzalemská Biblia, veľký formát, hnedá so zlatorezom, 2026


Vydanie obsahuje označenie jednotlivých biblických kníh - praktické palcové indexátory, ktoré umožnia rýchle vyhľadanie príslušnej knihy. V skromnom zozname slovenských katolíckych prekladov Biblie má preklad Antona Boteka výnimočné miesto. Autor na ňom pracoval s cieľom priblížiť biblické texty moderným jazykom. Ten je prvým krokom k lepšiemu porozumeniu neraz neľahkých textov pochádzajúcich z čias od ktorých nás delia dve tisícročia, ba i viac. Okrem zrozumiteľnosti jazyka je obrovskou prednosťou tohto vydania jeho doplnenie úvodmi, komentármi a margináliami Jeruzalemskej Biblie. Jeruzalemská Biblia je preklad Svätého písma do francúzštiny, ktorý vznikol vďaka mnohoročnému úsiliu Jeruzalemskej biblickej školy, ktorú vedú dominikáni. Vynikajúci biblisti zhromaždili všetky dostupné historické, archeologické, lingvistické a ďalšie relevantné poznatky, ktoré im umožnili napísať ku každej knihe Svätého písma hodnotný úvod. Vďaka týmto úvodom čitateľ vopred spozná základné posolstvo tej-ktorej knihy, historické pozadie jej vzniku, obsahovú štruktúru, jej začlenenie do celkovej štruktúry Svätého písma. Úvod teda vytvára prvotný predpoklad pre správne vnímanie a porozumenie obsahu knihy. Ďalšou špecialitou Jeruzalemskej Biblie sú marginálne odkazy. Na okraji textu nášho vydania sú umiestnené značky biblických kníh s číslom kapitoly a číslom verša. Je to vynikajúca pomôcka, vďaka ktorej sa priamo pri čítaní textu dá nájsť iné miesto v Biblii, ktoré reflektuje tú istú udalosť, na ktorom sa hovorí o tom istom probléme, kde je použitý rovnaký obraz. Ak je takýto marginálny odkaz doplnený znamienkom +, znamená to, že poznámka k označenej pasáži vysvetľuje aj text, pri ktorom sa odkaz nachádza. Moderný jazyk Botekovho prekladu a vynikajúci pomocný aparát Jeruzalemskej Biblie s jeho úvodmi, komentármi a margináliami robia z tohto vydania Svätého písma spoľahlivý zdroj svetla, inšpirácie, duchovného povzbudenia a oporu v duchovnom raste pre každého, kto sa podujme pravidelne brať Sväté písmo do rúk a čítať ho.
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69,99 €

Communism in Philosophy


A new collection of essays on two of the most important communist philosophers of our time: Alain Badiou and Toni Negri. From the “red years” that followed the social explosion of May ’68 into the first decades of the twenty-first century, Badiou and Negri never abandoned their commitment to a militant politics of equality. Meanwhile, they produced two of the most imposing and consequential bodies of philosophical writing in the communist tradition. Alberto Toscano’s essays tackle multiple dimensions of their work—from ontology to biopolitics, from art to violence, from the theory of capitalism to the challenge of counter-revolution. But all of them are also efforts to explore and answer a single question: What does it mean to be a communist in philosophy?
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39,49 €

Third Camp Socialism


Third Camp Socialism collects Phyllis and Julius Jacobson’s major writings on civil rights, Stalinism, the Cold War, and the New York Intellectuals. The Jacobsons advanced a militant, small-d democratic perspective on the landmark events of their era, from the New Deal and World War II to sixties protests and the War on Terror. Today, they are best remembered for founding New Politics and defending a third camp perspective that resists capitalism as well as all varieties of “progressive” authoritarianism. This volume makes a powerful case for revisiting the Jacobsons’ contributions to socialist thought.
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64,49 €

Modern French Marxism


Marxism was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life throughout the twentieth century. Modern French Marxism tells the story of how it dominated the battle of ideas. Michael Kelly takes readers from Marxism’s early beginnings to its peak in the 1970s. He follows conceptual debates on the materialist dialectic, explores Marxism as a system of thought, and conveys the ambition of the men and women of letters who sought to change the world. This second edition is augmented with essays on how Marxist thinkers grappled with religion, everyday life, the Cold War, and other leading intellectual movements.
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The Capital / Logic Debate


The Capital / Logic Debate is the first of two volumes on how Marx used Hegel's Logic in his Capital.  Andy Blunden reviews the current literature on the topic with detailed analysis of the contribution of ten authors, representing the spectrum of approaches. Finding that present-day writers fail to understand the Logic and misrepresent Capital as a work of Logic, Blunden focuses on the passage in the Logic entitled "The Idea of the True," which is ignored by every writer in the present-day debate.
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