We See Things They’ll Never See
We See Things They’ll Never See, How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity. Reviewed in the Sociological Review
The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs
The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs, reviewed by the Inquisitive Biologist
The Life of Violet – Reviewed in the Guardian
Life of Violet, Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—reviewed in the Guardian
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
David Woodman, the author of The First King of England, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s PM program, (interview starts at 52:01) with Tom Holland, discussing the importance of Aethelstan in English History.
How Progress Ends – shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025
How Progress Ends was shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025, please click on the links below for more information.
Review of Iran’s Grand Strategy in the FT
Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads and Professor of Global History at Worcester College Oxford, reviews Iran’s Grand Strategy in the Financial Times.
A jargon and hype-free introduction to how Bitcoin really works.
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. By stripping away the hype, jargon, and superficial analysis that often surrounds the crypto industry, this book uncovers the true ingenuity behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s creation—and its profound implications for the future of money, governance, and individual freedom.
Housing Under Platform Capitalism – how can short term rentals be regulated in European Cities?
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world’s cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb show that strikingly different regulatory regimes have emerged around short-term rentals.
Are we monsters?
A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, by Benjamin Nathans wins Pulitzer Prize
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia—and beyond
“A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time. . . . A story from which we all stand to learn as we face a new wave of authoritarianism.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
