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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Dr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of...

A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times- bestselling Barracoon . Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring...

For most of her youth and early adulthood, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. When her mother left the house, Tara would beg her to stay, certain that...

A collection of three rural stories about finding home in unexpected places. Something in the Wine by Tricia Stringer High school teacher Keely's beach holiday plans are turned upside down...

A National Book Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , The New Yorker , NPR, The Minnesota Star...

A #1 International Bestseller - An Amazon Best Book of February 2024 - An IndieNext Pick "A dark dream of a novel...that feels both timeless and original. Enjoy--and also beware....

This book unravels the secrets and workings of the English parish and its effect on English society. There are 13,000 parishes in England, each with its parish church, covering the...

'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph 'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local....

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was 'Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization.' Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of...

It is a stagnant ferment which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

Within the past decade, Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of...

Can the past show you the way home? With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters, Nella Martini has returned to the last place she wants to be...

In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any application mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los...

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than...

The book titled Good Times, Hard Times: Past and the Future in Elizabeth by the author Mark Peel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

About the practices and politics of place and identity formation -- the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are -- this book exposes...

This book brings together recent theories and research in the study of organizations to provide a new perspective on the central role of organizations in modern societies. Particular attention is...

Country life was idealized by the Victorians into a rural idyll. 19th-century artists sought to perpetuate this image and their work found its greatest expression in images of cottages and...

In a fast-paced world with mega upheaval, including climate crises and a global pandemic, the allure of growing your own food, being self-sufficient, and living green is immense. This yearning...

In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from...

The "Encyclopedia of the City" complements Routledge's strong list of readers and textbooks in urban studies and the city. Focusing on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in...

The definitive book on tourists' most popular city. 'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - Marivaux In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining...

As featured on BBC Breakfast. A warm, engaging and witty memoir from the star of Channel 5's The Yorkshire Vet . This is the life story of vet Peter Wright,...

Australia is one of the world's most urbanised nations, belying our image as a country of hard-living outback heroes and laid back sea-changers. Our future welfare is closely tied to...

In the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the...

This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social...

Tells the story of urban life through people's bodily experience; how women and men moved, what they saw and heard, how they dressed, when they bathed and how they made...

The book titled Hidden Injuries of Class by the author Richard Sennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write - the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and,...

A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed 'Mister Whisper,' earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and...

Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...

An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...

It is great to see a book put together with stories directly from the mouths of people who have been in the industry for many years. Their stories are not...

Buildings and Power shifts the focus of architectural debate from the dominant themes of art and technology to an analysis of meaning in terms of social relations. Buildings are primarily...

An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From...

This interdisciplinary anthology, which brings together the research of a prominent group of Australian feminist scholars, reflects three dominant areas of feminist thinking today: the concept of woman as adaptor...

[A WOMAN ALWAYS LANDS ON HER FEET] THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Get ready for CAT LADY, the brilliantly bold and joyful new novel from Dawn O'Porter 'Even speaking...

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...

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, part anthropological study, this is an account of a Western woman living in a Muslim Bangladeshi village for 18 months. On an anthropological level, it demonstrates...

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...

In this important, scholarly, and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx,...

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...

After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and...