For sale in CIS only! Hannah Arendt spoke of the banality of evil–the normalisation of the unutterable, simply because that was how things were in any given place and time. Is evil really so disappointing? We expect evil to be dramatic, unfathomable...

For sale in CIS only! Is our existence in the world a set of separate moving parts to which we must continuously adapt? Or is life a series of transitions as we evolve our understanding of what goes on around and within ourselves in order to realise...

For sale in CIS only! How can the narratives of the gospels, and their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure? Why was Jesus, who said "I judge no one", put to death for a political cri...

For sale in CIS only! Foreword by Leon T. Goldsmith. A pathbreaking analysis of tyranny by one of the nineteenth century's most prominent Arab intellectuals, now published in English for the first time. "The Nature of Tyranny" was written and publ...

For sale in CIS only! One of our most original and compelling thinkers on conflict reflects on the Hobbesian impulse of "war of all against all". What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to d...

For sale in CIS only! A rich social and cultural history of (un)belonging. A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is "cancelled" for denying her white...

For sale in CIS only! The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google...

For sale in CIS only! Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiat...

For sale in CIS only! This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations". Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has hab...

For sale in CIS only! Images from Baghdad's now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib t...