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A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out...

Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? For future generations, it won't mean anything very obvious. They will be so immersed in...

The groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond. When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were...

A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer It's all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything...

'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body. It's about...

If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the...

Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the...

"Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-de-force. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left...

In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought...

Hung Together tells the story of a year that made political history as told by the protagonists and as witnessed by two journalists with unrivalled access to events. Adam Boulton...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the...

This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...

In 1928, after a white man was killed, a punitive party mounted a series of attacks on Aborigines northwest of Alice Springs. The party's leader admitted that 31 Aborigines were...

An investigation into the deaths of six Aboriginal women and the police responses that left families reeling 'If you think it's hard being a white woman in Australia, try being...

An extraordinary 'micro-history' which exposes the beginnings of institutionalised police racism in Britain. 'David Oluwale's story has a raw power...and Kester Aspden makes it relevant for the reader of today'...

Dworkin's seminal debut which argued that a deep-rooted hatred of women reigned society for centuries - and still governs us today 'This book is an action, a political action where...

When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks...

'Consummate and thorough' - The Times 'Darkly entertaining' - The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...

What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogota, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely-populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner...

Lyrical, immersive non-fiction chronicling the stories of nine Muslim women on the margins of modern India, from anthropologist and ethnographer Dr Lexi Stadlen Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an...

For fans of Humans Of New York and The Pursuit of Happyness. 'A big-hearted and world-shaking idea' - Nick Cave 'Turn a common, everyday act into something potentially transformative.' -...

This fearless collection is described by Mascara Literary Review as 'value for anyone whose own lives are inextricably bruised by others' fear, hate, and targeted bigotry'. Are we a nation...

Rooted in the extensive expertise she has developed since "Odd Girl Out" was first published as well as up-to-date research, Simmons offers a new chapter on technology, including a focus...

In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem , Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States....

Drawing on both archive material and contributions from the public, this book looks at various aspects of wartime romance. It includes facsimiles of letters, postcards, telegrams, diaries, Valentine cards, honeymoon...

* What is the relevance of the concept of risk to social policy? * Has risk replaced need as the key organizing principle of welfare provision? * Do current trends...

With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book reminds us that outer space is anything but remote....

Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying Should the church receive people who identify as LGBTQ into its...

A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world. To live a long life should be a joy; to be old should not...

The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...

Wife. Mother. Politician. Traitor. Fighter. Survivor. CECILY 'Rebellion?' The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips. She chooses to start...

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of...

Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based...

Ignore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create...

Now a Broadway play 'Punch' by James Graham, playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre September 7 - November 2, 2025 In 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that...

How an innocent man, who spent 30 years on death row, found nothing could destroy his capacity for hope, joy and love. **WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE...

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prize-winning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind...

One hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting. Jess Pan goes out on behalf of all the introverts to answer the question- is it really true that extroverts have...

An eye-opening investigation into life below the poverty line that turns received thinking on its head Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 Why...

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and...

An era-defining, agenda-setting call for trans liberation which will reshape our current conversation on transgender rights Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up...