Society & Essays

Amber Husain Paperback In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and...

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...

Andreas Fulda Paperback 256 pages As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have ...

C.L. Skach Hardback 288 pages We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right fro...

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...

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...

Moshik Temkin Paperback 320 pages Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and beco...

Johan Norberg Paperback 352 pages A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels were right when they observed in The Communist Manifesto that fr...

Softback 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...

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...

Maggie Nelson Hardback 352 pages Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes ...

Legacy Russell Hardback 192 pages, 8pp colour plate section In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visu...

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...

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...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

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...

Stephen Wildish Hardback 192 pages Apocalypse.... Now?Prepare for every possible end of days with this essential survival guide. Covering crucial survival skills, the ideal Plan A and Plan B, ...

Mariana Mazzucato - Rosie Collington Paperback 368 pages There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must ...

Charles Duhigg Paperback Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giv...

Andy Borowitz Paperback 336 pages...

Haruki Murakami Paperback 224 pages A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas an...

George Makari Paperback / softback 368 pages, 40 b-w illus. An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia-and what it means for today's divided world Over the last few years, it ...