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Broaden your horizons by learning from some of the best political and philosophical thinkers, whether you’re looking for books on international relations, UK politics, social justice, society and culture, political biography, or in-depth memoirs. Find hit authors including political commentator James O'Brien, former US president Barack Obama, How To Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi and more, plus blockbuster reads like Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, and journalist John Sweeney’s impressively reported and unflinching indictment of Vladimir Putin, Killer in the Kremlin.