Society & Essays

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...

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...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

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...

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...

Author: Gillian Anderson, Cover: Softback, Pages: 400...

Alice Vincent Paperback 304 pages Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand what encourages women to g...

Kai-Fu Lee , Chen Qiufan Paperback 480 pages How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within tw...

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...

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 ...

Jessica Hamel-Akre Paperback The day Jessica Hamel-Akre discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' - it sparked an intelle...

Marcel Dirsus Paperback Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weakn...

Anne Applebaum Hardback 240 pages One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon i...

Elisabeth Braw Hardback 336 pages A bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world economy After the Cold War, globalization accelerated ...

Hein de Haas Paperback Global migration is not at an all-time high. Climate change will not lead to mass migration. Immigration mainly benefits the wealthy, not workers. Border restrict...

Annie Lord Softback 400 pages Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse... Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits the past - from the moment she first ...

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...

Tara Westover Paperback 400 pages Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate unti...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback 224 pages In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes ...

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 ...

Dmitry Grozoubinski Hardback 288 pages Why Politicians Lie About Trade reveals how international trade really works and the compromises and deals nations must make to take part in the greatest co...

Patricia Evangelista Hardback 448 pages My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't...

Geoff White Hardback 288 pages For as long as people have been stealing money, there has been an industry ready to wash it. But what happened when our economy went digital? How does the global u...