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Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming
Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most
Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives
The Jamaican-born poet/activist on Britain’s imperialist mentality and his five-decade search for ‘this elusive thing called poetry’
Ben Smith charts the history of online news and the trouble chasing internet traffic
With an ageing global population, cases of the disease continue to drastically rise. Two timely and insightful books offer help on how to support the millions of new patients
The exiled Russian author on how a career in geology led him to dig into his homeland’s hidden horrors for a new short-story collection
Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division
Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy
Three new books assess the social, historical and ideological factors shaping Tory electoral strategy under Rishi Sunak
Three informative books offering first-hand perspectives of early motherhood are a reminder that raising children should be a collective responsibility
Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history
With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today
Discomfort around dying, life after loss, sources of solace — three timely books bring fresh perspectives to bereavement
The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together
Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics
. . . but getting the messaging correct is not always child’s play
Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism
Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives
What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?
From Genghis Khan to Caesar, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s entertaining new take on the history of the world is told via some rather troubling relatives
Three books examine the challenges — from schoolyard to workplace — faced by boys and men as they adapt to their changing status in the modern world
Sixteen years after The Road, the arrival of two new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, marks a major literary event
A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt
America’s higher education leads the world — yet at home it feeds social inequality and economic stress. Can it be fixed?
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