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Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas...
Underclass: A Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDr 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 the...
The Appeal: The smash-hit bestseller
ONE MURDER. FIFTEEN SUSPECTS.CAN YOU UNCOVER THE TRUTH?There is a mystery to solve in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood. It starts with the arrival of two secretive newcomers, and...
The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America's history...
Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-in particular it has brought radical...
The Nomads of Mykonos: Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space
This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a...
Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after...
The Great Aussie Road Trip
A compendium of Heather Ewart's favourite road trips around this great land with tips on where to go, when to go, what to pack and what to see. The...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris XygalatasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEFrom fire walking to funerals, the hidden science...
Just a Mother
The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris XygalatasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEFrom fire walking to funerals, the hidden science...
Advocate: A voice from the margins
Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a working woman, a survivor, above all, she is an...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment...