- A beacon of US power and ambition – Oliver Zunz has written a new history that charts the constant evolution in the ways American citizens give to good causes, writes John Gapper
- In the Zone – ‘Zona’ celebrates novelist Geoff Dyer’s lifelong devotion to ‘Stalker’, a cinematic masterpiece by Andrei Tarkovsky, writes Peter Aspden
- 1848 and all that – ‘Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ is Paul Mason’s attempt to analyse the protest movements that swept the world last year, writes Jonathan Ford
- Don’t let’s be beastly – Philip Oltermann’s ‘Keeping Up With the Germans’ offers an intelligent but entertaining take on Anglo-German rivalry, writes Frederick Studemann
- China’s conscience – ‘No Enemies, No Hatred’ is a collection of essays and poems by jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, says Jamil Anderlini
- The Dreyfus years – ‘The Dreyfus Affair’ is Piers Paul Read’s history of the political scandal that divided France at the turn of the 20th century, writes Tobias Grey
- North Pole by air – Alec Wilkinson’s ‘The Ice Balloon’ charts SA Andrée’s remarkable attempt to discover one of the Earth’s last unmapped places aboard a hydrogen balloon , writes Carl Wilkinson
- Finding the past in Tibet – Colin Thubron’s heartfelt memoir ‘To a Mountain in Tibet’ explores the region’s martial and religious history, writes James Urquhart
- Moving beyond nature – In ‘Beyond Human Nature’, Jesse J Prinz sets out the arguments made on either side of the nature versus nurture debate, writes Carl Wilkinson
- Southern spoils – Robert Holland’s ‘Blue-Water Empire’ explores why Britain’s imperial planners were so determined to control the Mediterranean, writes Mark Mazower
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