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The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak oc...

Jason W. Moore's book Capitalism in the Web of Life has become a required read for those trying to understand why it is that capitalis...

The plural "causes" in the title of Norah Carlin's book is important because as she makes clear she is not looking for a singl...

The Fireman tells the reader little about what is taking place in the wide world. There is little about the fall of governments or the failu...

Who is the bandit? Where do they come from and how do they survive? These are the questions that Eric Hobsbawm's classic work  Bandits ...

Millions of words and hundreds of books have been written on Malcolm X and the struggle for Civil Rights in the United States. In an era whe...

**Spoilers** This is one of the most extraordinary novels that I have read in many years. It is being favourably compared to Orwell...

This is a highly important book that any student of capitalism should read. It locates the cotton industry at the heart of the development o...

I wanted to love The Dark Defiles . I'd enjoyed the two early volumes in the series and despite some issues with the overly graphic viol...

The question of "why" something happened in history is a vexing one. It's rarely easy to determine simple causal reasons behin...

It seems that on an almost daily basis we read reports that climate change is getting worse, faster than expected. Only a few months back in...

This is an interesting and important attempt to grapple with the great transformation that took place in England, the transition from feudal...

Station Eleven is one of the best post-apocalyptic novels I have ever read. Perhaps second only to George R. Stewart's ecological class...

While food is often an incredibly personal choice, the choice of what to eat is rarely made in a vacuum. Today in Britain, over a million pe...

History often illuminates the present and surprisingly this crime novel is a wonderful example of that. Set in the 1980s, the novel follows ...

Despite the somewhat academic title, this is an exceptional study of the 1549 rebellions, their causes and consequences. Andy Wood's acc...