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		<title>Night of Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING?AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY</strong></p><p>In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling <em>The Great War of Civilisation</em> left off.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8216;ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING?AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE&#8217; NOAM CHOMSKY</strong></p>
<p>In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling <em>The Great War of Civilisation</em> left off.</p>
<p>From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel&#8217;s conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West&#8217;s ongoing hypocrisy and interference while revealing the horrific truth of life on the ground. Unafraid to criticise authority and unpick complex truths, hecreates a compelling narrative of passionate and engaging journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting.</p>
<p>With a Postscript by Nelofer Pazira-Fisk and a foreword by Patrick Cockburn, <em>Night of Power</em> delivers an essential and prophetic account of the last twenty years, which exposes the inescapable consequences of colonial oppression and violence in the Middle East.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;This is a masterly work by a unique and gifted &#8220;historian of the present&#8221;, who was unafraid to criticise authority while revealing the horrific realities of life and death on the ground&#8217; Conor O&#8217;Clery, <em>Irish Times</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Every sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of today&#8217;s events&#8217; Amira Hass, journalist, <em>Haaretz</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Fisk&#8217;s reporting is clear-eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft&#8217; Anthony Arnove, editor, <em>Iraq Under Siege</em> and author, <em>Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8216;I was at the funeral of a friend of mine, in Kilternan cemetery ? I came across Robert Fisk&#8217;s grave. Someone has to bear witness to the unspeakable, and he did it, whatever the cost to himself&#8217; Neil Jordan, film director and writer</strong></p>
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		<title>NATO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace - but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold? In this incisive account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day-published for the alliance&#8217;s seventy-fifth anniversary</b></p>
<p> For seven decades, NATO&#8217;s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace-but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine and on Europe&#8217;s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?</p>
<p> In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.</p>
<p> At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance&#8217;s intriguing history-and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.</p>
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		<title>Crimes against humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. He shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. This seminal work contains a critical perspective on events such as the invasion of Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the killings in Darfur, the death of Milosevic and the trial of Saddam Hussein. Cautiously optimistic about ending impunity, but unsparingly critical of diplomats, politicians, Bush lawyers and others who evade international rules, this book will provide further guidance to a movement which aims to make justice predominant in world affairs.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>The definitive book on human rights law, now updated with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine</b> <b>and the continuing war in Gaza  </b></p>
<p>In <i>Crimes Against Humanity</i>, Geoffrey Robertson KC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder.</p>
<p>He shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. This seminal work contains a critical perspective on events such as the invasion of Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the killings in Darfur, the death of Milosevic and the trial of Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>Cautiously optimistic about ending impunity, but unsparingly critical of diplomats, politicians, Bush lawyers and others who evade international rules, this book will provide further guidance to a movement which aims to make justice predominant in world affairs.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;A beacon of clear-sighted commitment to the humanitarian cause &#8230; impassioned &#8230; exemplary &#8230; seminal&#8217; <i>Observer</i></p>
<p>&#8216;A devastating critique of the inadequate response of the international community to violations of basic freedoms &#8230; a formidable achievement&#8217; <i>Evening Standard</i></b></p>
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		<title>Night of power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>'INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING?AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY</strong></p><p>The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationally bestselling <em>The Great War of Civilisation</em> left off, starting with the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2005.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8216;INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING?AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE&#8217; NOAM CHOMSKY</strong></p>
<p>The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationally bestselling <em>The Great War of Civilisation</em> left off, starting with the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2005.</p>
<p>From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel&#8217;s conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West&#8217;s ongoing hypocrisy and interference while revealing the horrific truth of life on the ground. Unafraid to criticise authority and unpick complex truths, hecreates a compelling narrative of passionate and engaging journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting.</p>
<p>With a Postscript by Nelofer Pazira-Fisk and a foreword by Patrick Cockburn, <em>Night of Power</em> delivers an essential and prophetic account of the last twenty years, which exposes the inescapable consequences of colonial oppression and violence in the Middle East.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Every sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of today&#8217;s events&#8217; Amira Hass, journalist, <em>Haaretz</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Fisk&#8217;s reporting is clear-eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft&#8217; Anthony Arnove, editor, <em>Iraq Under Siege</em> and author, <em>Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal</em></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day-published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day-published for the alliance&#8217;s seventy-fifth anniversary</b></p>
<p> For seven decades, NATO&#8217;s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace-but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine and on Europe&#8217;s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?</p>
<p> In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.</p>
<p> At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance&#8217;s intriguing history-and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.</p>
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		<title>Preventable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In 'Preventable' she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - including her personal experience as a scientist - and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>**THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b><b>| </b><b>BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**</b></p>
<p><b>The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health &#8211; from a world-leading expert and the pandemic&#8217;s go-to science communicator </b></p>
<p>Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In <i>Preventable </i>she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic &#8211; including her personal experience as a scientist &#8211; and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come.</p>
<p>In gripping and heartfelt prose, Sridhar exposes the varied realities of those affected and puts you in the room with key decision makers at crucial moments. She vibrantly conveys the twists and turns of a plot that saw: deadlier varients emerge (contrary to the predictions of social media pundits who argued it would mutate to a milder form); countries with weak health systems like Senegal and Vietnam fare better than countries like the US and UK (which were consistently ranked as the most prepared); and the quickest development of game-changing vaccines in history (and their unfair distribution)</p>
<p>Combining science, politics, ethics and economics, this definitive book dissects the global structures that determine our fate, and reveals the deep-seated economic and social inequalities at their heart &#8211; it will challenge, outrage and inspire.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;A brutally compelling reminder that if voices like Devi&#8217;s had been listened to, so many more could have lived&#8217; OWEN JONES</p>
<p>&#8216;One of the most brilliant scientists in the world who has been proven consistently right in this crisis&#8217; PIERS MORGAN</p>
<p>&#8216;Excellent . . . Fair, clear and compelling&#8217; NICOLA STURGEON</b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Those who have found Professor Devi Sridhar&#8217;s expertise and calm advice invaluable since the arrival of Covid-19 will be glad to know that she has written <i>Preventable</i>&#8216; RACHEL COOKE, <i>Guardian</i>, Non-fiction to look out for in 2022</b></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In 'Preventable' she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - including her personal experience as a scientist - and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>**THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b><b>| </b><b>BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**</b><br /><b><i><br />Preventable </i>tells the extraordinary story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health &#8211; from a world-leading expert and the pandemic&#8217;s go-to science communicator</b></p>
<p>Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In <i>Preventable</i> she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic &#8211; including her personal experience as a scientist &#8211; and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come.</p>
<p>In gripping and heartfelt prose, Sridhar exposes the varied realities of those affected (from the jailed doctor in Wuhan who sounded the alarm, and the bored passengers marooned on the <i>Diamond Princess</i> cruise ship, to the daily nightmares of exhausted healthcare workers), and puts you in the room with key decision makers at crucial moments (from over-confident heads of states and their hesitant scientific advisors, to the beleaguered leaders of global health organisations).</p>
<p>  Sridhar vibrantly conveys the twists and turns of a plot that saw: deadlier variants emerge (contrary to the predictions of social media pundits who argued it would mutate to a milder form); the Pyrrhic victory in many countries of the false narrative of health versus the economy (those countries which controlled the virus, like Taiwan and Denmark, had a steadier recovery); countries with weak health systems like Senegal and Vietnam fare better than countries like the US and UK (which were consistently ranked as the most prepared); and the quickest development of game-changing vaccines in history (and their unfair distribution).</p>
<p>  Combining science, politics, ethics and economics, this definitive book dissects the global structures that determine our fate, and reveals the deep-seated economic and social inequalities at their heart &#8211; it will challenge, outrage and inspire.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;A brutally compelling reminder that if voices like Devi&#8217;s had been listened to, so many more could have lived&#8217; OWEN JONES</p>
<p>&#8216;One of the most brilliant scientists in the world who has been proven consistently right in this crisis&#8217; PIERS MORGAN</p>
<p>&#8216;Excellent . . . Fair, clear and compelling&#8217; NICOLA STURGEON</b><br /><b><br />&#8216;Those who have found Professor Devi Sridhar&#8217;s expertise and calm advice invaluable since the arrival of Covid-19 will be glad to know that she has written <i>Preventable</i>&#8216; RACHEL COOKE, <i>Guardian</i>, Non-fiction to look out for in 2022</b></p>
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		<title>Adults In The Room</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe's political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown - not least because so much of the EU's real business takes place behind closed doors.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>** The <i>Sunday Times </i>#1 Bestseller**</b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;One of the greatest political memoirs of all time&#8217; <i>Guardian</i></b></p>
<p><b>What happens when you take on the European establishment? </b></p>
<p>Read as world-famous, provocative economist, and former Greece finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, blows the lid on his battle with EU officials over the Greek debt crisis. </p>
<p>                                                                                                                                                                          Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history with his attempt to renegotiate Greece&#8217;s relationship with the European Union. Yet despite the mass support of the Greek people, and simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe&#8217;s political, financial and media elite. <br />                                                                                                                                                                      Exposing the real business taking place behind the EU&#8217;s closed doors, Varoufakis reveals all in this fearless, personal account. Adults In The Room is an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion and betrayal that will shake the European and economic establishment to its foundations. </p>
<p>Varoufakis is sending out an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy before it is too late.</p>
<p><b>**ONE OF THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>&#8216;S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**</b></p>
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		<title>And The Weak Suffer What They Must</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism. Europe has dragged the world into hideous morasses twice in the last one hundred years. It can do it again. Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minister of Greece, shows here that the Eurozone is a house of cards destined to fall without a radical change in direction. And, if the European Union falls apart, he argues, the global economy will not be far behind.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>**THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**</b><br /><b><br />                                                                                                                                                                              The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens.</b></p>
<p>                                                                                                                                                                          In this startling account of Europe&#8217;s economic rise and catastrophic fall, Varoufakis pinpoints the flaws in the European Union&#8217;s design &#8211; a design thought up after the Second World War, and one responsible for Europe&#8217;s fragmentation and resurgence of racist extremism.</p>
<p>                                                                                                                                                                          When the financial crisis struck in 2008, the political elite&#8217;s response ensured it would be the weakest citizens of the weakest nations that paid the price for the bankers&#8217; mistakes. Drawing on his personal experience of negotiations with the eurozone&#8217;s financiers, and offering concrete policies to reform Europe, the former finance minister of Greece shows how we concocted this mess and points our way out of it. </p>
<p><i>And The Weak Suffer What They Must?</i> highlights our history to tell us what we must do to save European capitalism and democracy from the abyss. With the future of Europe under intense scrutiny after Brexit, this is the must-read book to explain Europe&#8217;s structural flaws and how to fix them.</p>
<p><b>                                                                                                                                                                              &#8216;If you ever doubt what is at stake in Europe &#8211; read Varoufakis&#8217;s account&#8217; <i>Guardian</i></b></p>
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