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Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice
An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s
In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....
Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern
It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. In Lines of Thought,...
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the USA as a widely appealing cultural, artistic and social form. In this text, Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors...
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized
Looking for a precedent that eased the way for "civilized" people to embrace fascism in the twentieth-century, Hannah Arendt found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule,...
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s....
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Black Women Always: Conversations on life, culture and creativity
A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories...
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn't just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When...
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should...
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil...
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir...
Hello Kitty and Friends: You're My BFF: A Fill-In Book
Hello Kitty and her friends have never been cuter! This all-in-one kit includes everything you need to create embroidered cross-stitch crafts of Hello Kitty, My Melody, Keroppi, and Kuromi.- Specifications:...
The Little Book of Marmalade
A perfect guide to making marmalade from the award-winning Lucy Deedes. Marmalade had been around for hundreds of years - as a Portuguese sweetmeat, an after-dinner digestif, an aphrodisiac -...
Snowflake: Breaking Through Mental Health Stereotypes and Stigma
'Sensitively and seriously exploring mental health stereotypes' StylistThis is NOT a book of rules or statistics. It will NOT tell you what you can and can't say to someone with...
Good Data: An Optimist's Guide to Our Digital Future
AN FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTHThe book that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech. 'We are currently...
The British Bloke, Decoded: From Banter to Man-Flu. Everything finally
'I laughed a lot and now understand blokes a lot more than I ever wanted to' - KATHERINE RYAN 'Geoff is one of the funniest intelligent thinkers in comedy and...
How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
A madcap adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art and mayhem in the greatest city on earth.Ten years ago, an aimless coat check girl better known today...
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet
'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live-and How Their Wealth Harms Us
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you...
Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style
A bold, stylish look at the global rise of Korean culture and style in the words and images of those shaping and living it. K-pop, K-fashion, K-drama, K-beauty: over the...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over...
Spinning Plates: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR talks Music, Men and Motherhood
AS HEARD ON HIT FILM SALTBURN.'She's an honest and a very warm writer... it's a really warm read this. It might just touch a lot of readers.' - MAGIC RADIO'Honest...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to
"One of America's most experienced and exemplary journalists has written an unsparing analysis of the dreadful consequences -- for journalism and the nation -- of 'how the news lost a...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
The Little Book of the 1980s: The Decade of Retro Cool
The era that inspired Stranger Things...The 1980s were marked by the rise of conservative politics, the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic and, at the decade's close, the crumbling of the...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992)....
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
Yorkshire: There and Back
In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner,...
Snowflake: Breaking Through Mental Health Stereotypes and Stigma
'Sensitively and seriously exploring mental health stereotypes' StylistThis is NOT a book of rules or statistics. It will NOT tell you what you can and can't say to someone with...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century
What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look.A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century, Writing on the...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
The British Bloke, Decoded: From Banter to Man-Flu. Everything finally
'I laughed a lot and now understand blokes a lot more than I ever wanted to' - KATHERINE RYAN 'Geoff is one of the funniest intelligent thinkers in comedy and...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' - Kathy BurkeAstonish Me!...
Brazen: How I found the courage to escape my past and follow my dreams
A riveting, inspiring memoir from the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life'Haart is a hustler, a born entrepreneur, charismatic enough to attract investment like a pop ingenue attracts talent scouts...
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
'Buoyed by an appealing and measured sense of affection. Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is worth your time, being a pacy, lively account of...
The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most
'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir'[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail'A sparkling history' - Dr Kate StrasdinPeek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royalsWhy...
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure: A
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom,...
The Little Book of Bullshit: A Load of Lies too Good to be True
The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies...
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Ambition-the want, the hunger, the need to achieve-is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college...
A Quick Ting On: Plantain
Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, Plantain holds profound value within the cultures and communities it is part of. A Quick Ting On Plantain...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...