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With characteristic honesty, Lennon discusses the break up of the Beatles, his favourite tracks with the group and how they were made, fellow musicians including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, his attitude towards revolution and drugs and his relationship with Yoko Ono.

A set of reflections on British society and culture, this consists of a pair of essays published in "New Left Review" in the 1960s and two essays published in the late 1980s.

Peter Wollen is a master in the art of making unexpected connections, and this new book suggests many different ways of writing and thinking about art.

Leading historians present a fascinating collection of essays on the eighteenth century legal system and those who passed through it.

Argues that property relations provide the key to unlocking the changing meaning of 'international' across the medieval, early modern and modern periods. This book shows that international politics remained under the control of dynastic and absolutist political elites that were rooted in feudal property regimes.

Surveys phenomena as diverse as the uniqueness of the European family, the development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, and the globalization of Chinese food. This book shows that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted the comprehension of the East and of developments in Europe.

A unique book, tracing forty years of anti-racist feminist thought.

A collection of crime stories with themes of greed and corruption.

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger

Part-memoir, part-history, here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing that is irascible and often passionate. "The Business of Books" warns of the danger to adventurous, intelligent publishing in the bullring of today's marketplace.

Acclaimed anatomy of Britain's relationship with its monarchy, by foremost historian of nationalism.

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism.

In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment and sexual safety and pleasure without injustice.

Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools, and its background of hidden deals. These essays range from the skyscrapers and development scandals of New York to the architectural culture of Los Angeles.

Discusses about the Reformation which was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked by Martin Luther.

Italy's political disaster analysed

Exploring the philosophy of disobedienceThe world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and lyrical protest. Nothing can be taken for granted: neither supposed certainties nor social conventions, economic injustice or moral conviction.Thinking philosophically requires us never to accept truths and generalities that seem obvious. It restores a sense of political responsibility. At a time when the decisions of experts are presented as the result of icy statistics and anonymous calculations, disobeying becomes an assertion of humanity.To philosophize is to disobey. This book is a call for critical democracy and ethical resistance.

Trump in the Middle East: Chaos or Retreat?

This collection of essays is drawn from Fintan O'Toole's writings over two decades. Its portraits of people - talk-show hosts, priests, children, pop stars - and its reports of social and political upheaval, reveal a country still in search of itself, but more at ease with its complexities.

An Australian journalist, the first westerner to enter Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb was dropped, recounts his impressions of the decimated city and the treatment of the survivors

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this centuryand perhaps for the last forty yearsand the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes.In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union membership, taking militant action in the face of enormous structural barriers and a hostile Democratic Party leadership. The teachers won massive concessions from the city and have become a new model for school reform led by teachers themselves, rather than by billionaires. Strike for America is the story of this movement, and how it has become the defining struggle for the labor movement today.