Pelican imprint: 111 books
by C.E. Hilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Maggie McKitrick loves everything about her new life in Gibson’s Run, Ohio—her charming bakery, her quirky customers, her distance from the past. Yes, she loves everything…except her new landlord. Police Chief Sean Taylor is like a piece of sand in an oyster—irritating, but with the promise...
by Clare Revell
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Shipwrecked on the remote volcanic island of Agrihan, and with one of them severely injured, Lou Benson and Jim and Staci Kirk have to find their way to civilisation. Joined by orphan Ailsa Cudby, who has been living with a local village since her parents died, they set off past the volcano in search...
by Anthony King
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformation lies at the heart of British politics today. Imagining - or pretending - that the British political...
Hermeneutics
Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Is anything ever not an interpretation?
Does interpretation go all the way down?
Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?
These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in...
Object-Oriented Ontology
A New Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is reality, really?
Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?
How does this change the way we understand the world?
We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges...
Parenting the First Twelve Years
What the Evidence Tells Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Concrete, research-driven advice on humanity's oldest, hardest job
Why is parenting so fraught and so difficult in today's society? There has never been a time when advice was so readily available, and yet there is also a prevailing sense that parents are getting it wrong. This book examines...
National Populism
The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A crucial new guide to one of the most important and most dangerous phenomena of our time: the rise of populism in the West
Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile...
Plunder of the Commons
A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off...
A Short History of Brexit
From Brentry to Backstop
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit
After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical...
by Mike Savage
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.
Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?
How has the meaning of class changed?
What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?
In this book Mike Savage and the team...
The Government of No One
The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber,...
What We Really Do All Day
Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?
Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?
What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?
Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet...
A Political History of the World
Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace
In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States...