Society & Essays

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Zeke Faux Paperback 304 pages...

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...

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

Author: Christine Rosen , Cover: Softback...

Hardback 224 pages On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keepin...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 256, Author: Tom Scott...

Annie Jacobsen Paperback There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. It could start in as little as 26 minut...

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

Author: Nigel Slater, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368...

Author: Parmy Olson, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Nathan Thrall Paperback 272 pages A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old ...

Softback 324 pages Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – th...

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...

Julia Shaw Paperback 272 pages Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's largest sexual minority. It is a personal journey that starts...

Koa Beck Paperback 320 pages 'Don't judge this book by its cover. Koa Beck knows that feminism includes all women and girls by definition, and is writing to overcome anti-feminist divisions t...

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...

Vaclav Smil Paperback 336 Pages We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental ...

SoftbackCaroline Criado Perez Imagine a world where... *Your phone is too big for your hand *Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body *In a car accident you are 47% more likely to ...