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Siddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing expose-including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors-documents one of humanity's greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

Embarking on a journey of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture, the author and his family discover future food trends and meet a cast of food heroes, from a couple lavishing love on rotten fish, to a chef who literally sacrificed a limb in pursuit of the bowl of ramen.

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world.

The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, and diary and flying log book extracts, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published.

Jasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israel's occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies and populations.

The incredible, untold story of the American agent who captured El Chapo, the world's most-wanted drug-lord.

Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating region, as well as for students and researchers looking for an insight into life after the collapse of the old Soviet order in the richest and most dramatic of its former republics.

Why the Dutch are Different is the internationally bestselling portrait of a fascinating people and the country that was the setting for Tulip Fever.

The stunning autobiography of the poet, writer, lyricist and activist, Benjamin Zephaniah.

In the traditions of Paulo Coelho and Mitch Albom comes REBIRTH, a novel of reconciliation and forgiveness, inspired by the author's own pilgrimage of walking the legendary five-hundred and fifty mile Camino de Santiago across Spain.

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history

A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today's leading historians of antiquity

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

A widely respected theologian shows that both the people and land of Israel are important to God and the future of redemption, correcting many common misunderstandings along the way.

A new life of the creator of the world's first communist state

Corrects common misconceptions about faith and offers a fresh understanding of salvation as allegiance to Jesus the king.

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader.

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes.

The inspiring journey of Lizzie Velasquez, cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.