Society & Essays

Mark Bowden Paperback 320 pages Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by 'The Wire.' Drug de...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 672 pages In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the ...

Maurice Gorham - Illustrated by: Edward Ardizzone Paperback 144 pages In this love letter to the London pub, our genial guide takes the reader through all aspects of the local hostelry as it ...

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:...

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...

Roger Hampson & Nigel Shadbolt Hardback 272 pages A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being I...

G.T. Karber Paperback 384 pages Our tireless detective is ready to unwind on a long-awaited vacation ... until a series of fiendishmurders require his particular expertise in this third instalmen...

Helen Joyce Paperback 352 pages Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In ...

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...

Ali A. Allawi Hardback 688 pages A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments ...

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 ...

Kayla Ihrig Paperback 248 pages You don't need to sacrifice your career to travel the world. Join the 35 million digital nomads who are living, working and exploring to the fullest. With this bo...

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...

Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

Hardback Nels Abbey What does the founding of the Sugarhill Gang teach us about business development? What can we learn about management and leadership from Jay-Z's decades-long dominance? What do...

Laleh Khalili Paperback The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all rest. In this vital n...

Elizabeth Flock Hardback 304 pages In this profoundly moving book, Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock explores the stories of three women living in deeply patriarchal places with destructiv...

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 ...

Martin Wolf Paperback 496 pages From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democrac...

Kyle Chayka Paperback 304 pages The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms have...

Andy Borowitz Paperback 336 pages...