Politics & Humanities

The Mask Has Slipped: moral clarity for an age of crisis

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation

New and Popular Books at Housmans

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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity

The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

Capitalism, a Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination

The Powers That Be: Politics, Society and Activism from Indie Presses

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Peace by Peace: 99 Steps Toward Violence Prevention and De-escalation

Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants

Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness

Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans

The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up

The Big Payback: the case for reparations for slavery and how they would work

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler: BBC R4 Book of the Week

Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts

The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource

Understanding Israel and Palestine

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Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture

Perfect Victims: And The Politics Of Appeal

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

Good Books For Bad Times

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Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire

The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World

Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

Fascism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

Centrism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life

Cold War Steve Annual 2025 (Signed Edition)

Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

Solidarity with Strikers

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Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

The Purpose of Power: From the co-founder of Black Lives Matter

Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism

Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we’ll win them back

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality

Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South

Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

🔚 Inspiration for Activists 🔜

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It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Rest Is Resistance: Free yourself from grind culture and reclaim your life

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

Haramacy: A collection of stories prescribed by voices from the Middle East, South Asia and the diaspora

The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain

Iran: protest and revolution

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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

Politics and Counterculture

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Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future

The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester

Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good

May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)

On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag

Led by Donkeys: How four friends with a ladder took on Brexit

Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract

Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism

Book Fringe: An Literary festival rooted in environmental, feminist & anti-racist politics

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The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response

The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home

Nature Is A Human Right: Why We're Fighting for Green in a Grey World

The Colour of Madness: 65 Writers Reflect on Race and Mental Health

Boomerang: How the Afterlife of Empire is Breaking Britain

Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman

The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future

Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Finding Another

Can We Change? - Polemics on a World That Needs Fixing

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Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain / Essential Political Reading After The 2024 General Election

But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

Rooted: How regenerative farming can change the world

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism

What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It

What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

Critical Thinking

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Understanding Ukraine

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Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Putin's Russia: The definitive account of Putin’s rise to power

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

Making sense of now

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Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

How Not To Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

PRIVATE EYE Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook: The collected pandemic columns of Private Eye's medical correspondent "MD"

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Challenge Everything: An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to Saving the Planet

Time to Act: A Resource Book by the Christians in Extinction Rebellion

Palestine Solidarity

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Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel

Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award

Shell-shocked: On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault

Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine

The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire

Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories

Building Our World Again

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The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG

Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency

#futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us

Reckoning with Empire

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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire

Black and British: A short, essential history

Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire

Right to Protest: the best books on protest movements

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Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It

This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthro

Roads, Runways and Resistance: From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

Counterpower: Why Movements Succeed and Fail

The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry

Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Politics, Philosophy, Economics

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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Politics and Social Change

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Politics for Beginners

Rosie Hore, Alex Frith, et al.

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YouthQuake: 50 Children and Young People Who Shook the World

Tom Adams and Sarah Walsh

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Our Values: The Class Vote: Roshan Learns About Democracy

Deborah Chancellor and Elif Balta Parks

£7.99

You Can Change the World!: Everyday Teen Heroes Making a Difference Everywhere

Margaret Rooke and Kara McHale

£14.99

Protest!: How People Have Come Together to Change the World

Alice Haworth-Booth and Emily Haworth-Booth

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Children Who Changed the World: Incredible True Stories About Children's Rights!

Marcia Williams

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Power

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Why Nations Fail: FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918/1940–1944

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

A Better World: Books to tackle racism

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Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race

Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black

Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes

Reading Politics

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Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump

Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference

The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

Borders

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We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes

Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

Who are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave their Homes? And Other Big Questions

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee

The State We're In

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Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism

The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

Post-Truth American Politics: False Stories and Current Crises

Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat

Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism

Real News about the News: Media and British Politics

Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined

Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future

A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism: Challenging Growth, Markets, Inequality and Resentment

Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust

Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War - the instant...

Ash Sarkar

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Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of Climate Action

Scientists for XR

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Frankly

Nicola Sturgeon

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Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

Sam Freedman

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The Mind Manual: Your Complete Mental Fitness Toolkit: Quick...

Dr Alex George

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth...

Lucy Jones

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Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed

Grace Blakeley

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Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet

Tony Juniper

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Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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Maternity Service: A Love Letter to Mothers from the Front...

Emma Barnett

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Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against...

Sophie Lewis

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Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

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Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND

Moudhy Al-Rashid

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Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

Caroline Lucas

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Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back

Torsten Bell

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Just Earth (Signed Edition): How a Fairer World Will Save the...

Tony Juniper

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

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Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in...

Lyndsey Stonebridge

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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation...

Hannah Ritchie

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