Whose Crisis, Whose Future?
Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World
by Susan George

We are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. With her usual verve, passion and intelligence, Susan George explores each dimension of this deepening planetary emergency and the extraordinary opportunity it presents to build a greener, fairer, richer world. Such a breakthrough is not some far-fetched utopia, but an immediate, concrete possibility. Our future is in our hands.

Merchants of Culture
The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
by John B. Thompson

"For the uninitiated, Merchants of Culture provides a very perceptive, thorough and in-depth view of how trade publishing really works in the English-speaking world today. For those of us in the business or for writers who are mystified by their publisher's behavior, it offers a penetrating account of our business by a very shrewd, analytical observer. This book is the only thing I've ever read about our industry that has really got it."

William Shinker, President and Publisher of Gotham Books and Avery Books, Penguin Group USA

The Financial Crisis
Who is to Blame?
by Howard Davies

"It's hard to think of anyone better qualified than Howard Davies to evaluate the competing arguments about what caused the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930s."

Robert Peston, Business Editor for BBC News

Wall Street at War
The Secret Struggle for the Global Economy
by Alexandra Ouroussoff

"This is the most original analysis of the financial crisis I have seen. It is a work of economic philosophy supported and generated by an ethnographic method that is both classical and unusually dialogic."

Keith Hart, Goldsmiths, University of London

The World
A Beginner's Guide
by Göran Therborn

What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? This is the first book which deals with planetary human society as whole. It is a beginner's guide to the world after the West and after globalization, compact, portable, and jargon-free.

The Human Economy
Edited by Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville & Antonio David Cattani

"This book is a treasure trove for everyone trying to bring the common good and democratic political agency back into economics. International in scope, imaginative in spirit, it brings together the diverse experiences and ideas that could make possible a transition to a social, ecological and democratic global economy. It is a rich resource for emancipatory politics."

Hilary Wainwright, Fellow, Transnational Insititue, Co-editor, Red Pepper

How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
by Simon Critchley

How to Stop Living and Start Worrying tackles the question of “how to live” by forcing us to explore our troubling relationship with death. For Critchley, philosophy begins with the question of finitude and with his understanding of a key classical theme - that to philosophize is to learn how to die.

In the King's Shadow
The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation
by Philip Manow

"This is a brilliant piece of historical and political analysis, tracing how imagery derived originally from the importance of the corporeal presence of monarchs continues to shape our ways of thinking about political institutions today. It is probably the most original contribution to democratic theory for several years."

Colin Crouch, University of Warwick

A God of One's Own
by Ulrich Beck

"This new book from one of Europe's leading thinkers is a welcome, thoughtful engagement with the prominence of religion in the contemporary world. Writing as an unabashed sociological secularist, but one who refuses the simplifications of typical ideas of secularization, Beck explores religion's contradictory potentials, patterns of individuation and group identity, and the relation of religion to the ‘crisis of European modernity.’ Beck should inspire other sociologists and secularists to think harder about phenomena they too often ignore."

Craig Calhoun, New York University and President, Social Science Research Council

Blog Theory
Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
by Jodi Dean

"Blog Theory is refreshingly free of received ideas about the wonderful new world of media. Jodi Dean manages the difficult art of being critical of new media without becoming a cranky curmudgeon. She uses psychoanalytic concepts to produce a synoptic view of the decline of symbolic efficiency under communicative capitalism, and the way the blogosphere participates in this dissipation of the totems and tokens of what we once thought of as the public sphere. She clears the way for imagining the politics of media by other means."

McKenzie Wark, The New School

44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World
by Zygmunt Bauman

Nothing escapes scrutiny so stubbornly as the ordinary things of everyday life, hiding in the light of deceptive and misleading familiarity. To turn them into objects of attention and scrutiny, the apparently familiar must be made strange. This is precisely what Zygmunt Bauman seeks to do in these 44 letters: each tells a story drawn from ordinary lives, but tells it in order to reveal an extraordinariness that we might otherwise overlook.

The Third Way
The Renewal of Social Democracy
Second Edition
by Anthony Giddens

The Third Way enjoyed a dramatic success when it first appeared in the late 1990s. Giddens argued that we need to go beyond the main traditions of post-War political thinking in the industrial countries. The new edition of this classic text includes an extended preface in which Giddens clarifies the original edition’s intent and analyses some of the major developments in political and economic life since it first appeared.