Society & Essays

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

Kyle Prue Hardback 144 pages BE NO MAN'S PEACE. Have you ever been badgered by an annoying pick-up artist at the bar? Ever felt a burning desire to emotionally torture a friend's boyfriend in ...

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...

SoftbackRutger Bregman Human beings, we re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that p...

Ursula K. Le Guin Paperback Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights m...

Becca Rothfeld Paperback In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso young critic and philosopher Becca Rothfeld turns her clear gaze to a series of interconnected cultural and political questions - ab...

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 ...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 320, Author: Alexei Navalny...

Author: William Hanson , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 304...

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...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 323, Author: Mike Higgins...

Harrison Akins Softback 360 pages After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States' fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expen...

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

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 ...

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...

Roger E Backhouse Paperback 496 pages The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the st...

Maggie Nelson Paperback 224 pages Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they se...

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...

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...

Angela Y. Davis Paperback 256 pages Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist ...

Author: Christine Rosen , Cover: Softback...

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

Annie Ernaux Paperback 72 pages On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this l...

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...