Society & Essays

For (the poor girlfriend of) that friend who “has the confidence of a much taller man.”...

Lavinia Greenlaw Hardback 320 pages An expansive, wonder-filled collection exploring art, science and travel From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation o...

Mona Chollet Paperback 304 pages Renowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits society imposes on wome...

Eli Burnstein Hardback 208 pages What’s the difference between mazes and labyrinths? Proverbs and adages? Clementines and tangerines? Join author Eli Burnstein on a hairsplitter’s odyssey in...

For that friend who deserves a good backhanding–in the form of a Christmas present....

For that “friend” who is “kind of a voyeur” and “would totally love something like this.”...

Paperback 352 pages What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to t...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 304, Author: Florence Given...

Author: Annie Ernaux, Cover: Softback, Pages: 144...

Author: Yuval Noah Harari, Cover: Softback, Pages: 512...

Hardback Ray Kurzweil What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder m...

Paperback 256 pages In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that pr...

PaperbackFlorence Given Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. Women Don't Owe You Pretty is for anyone who wants to challenge t...

PaperbackChimamanda Ngozi Adichie A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the sa...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 240, Author: G.T. Karber...

Olivia Laing Hardback 336 pages A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls...

Naomi Klein Paperback 416 pages Naomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No Logo, is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet:...

David Shrier Paperback 240 pages In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and explori...

Nick Dearden Hardback 336 pages Big Pharma Puts Profits Over People. In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Ph...

Mikki Kendall Paperback 288 pages All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Meeting basic needs is a feminist ...

PaperbackSimone de Beauvoir Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Nev...

Author: Marion Deuchars, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 88...

Author: Patric Gagne, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368...

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Cover: Softback, Pages: 400...