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How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as...

Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts to eliminate bias, meets the people working to end...

The story of the 'seventh Mitford woman' told in full for the first time. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah: these are the flamboyant Mitford Girls, the Bright Young Things...

"The New York Times" bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test," Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. "Lost at Sea "reveals how deep...

'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate...

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia - and why killing the dead is better than killing the living. Killing the Dead provides the...

The memoirs of one of the world's foremost experts on death, dying and life after death. The book traces the path she followed from her birthplace in Switzerland to her...

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let...

Risk society and beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck''s ideas as expressed in Risk Society (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.'

"Feminist Praxis" combines theoretical discussion of feminist methodology with detailed accounts of practical research processes. This blend of the practical and the theoretical will make it an invaluable text for...

The family has played a central role in most societies and the complexity, and variety of that role has engaged the minds of many froma wide range of disciplines. There...

Straightforward in its approach, yet profound in its effect, the principles outlined in this book teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman has scientifically analysed...

Practical Social Investigation provides, within a single text, an introduction to a wide range of both long-standing and newer social research methods. Its balanced and integrated coverage of qualitative and...

"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers...

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How...

**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year** Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses...

Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to...

A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses...

Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done...

By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience...

Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu . Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules...

The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age...

Hrdy argues that evolution is controlled by the female of the species. She is more diverse, deadlier and more adaptable than the male, and the notion of maternal instinct, with...

Successful research requires effective and thorough preparation. In this expanded and updated Second Edition of Developing Effective Research Proposals Keith Punch offers an indispensable guide to the issues involved in...

David Silverman's seminal Doing Qualitative Research can justifiably claim to be 'the supervisor in your pocket' for all PhD and Masters students embarking on their own qualitative research project. This...

The Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory. Divided into three sections, this indispensable resource incorporates contributions...

Huge social changes occurring in real time are leading us to rethink traditional roles in our homes, workplaces and in society. So why do women who outearn their male partners...

'Freya India is an essential voice on Gen Z' -- Scott Galloway, bestselling author and podcast host Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil,...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...

History is dominated by the A-list deaths - Queens beheaded, Archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people through history prepare for the end, depart this life,...

This is a witty, insightful, and intelligent memoir from one of the most influential and important social thinkers of the 20th century. Peter Berger is arguably one of the best...

Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and...

In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid...

This book consists of a series of critical engagements with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. It offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions...

This anatomy of the nature of leisure today examines how the leisure society evolved as workers became liberated from the rigours of industrial manufacture, but how it, at the same...

'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in. ' Cat Bohannon A myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengths For decades,...

The book that explains the masculine subculture of the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an...

'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in. ' Cat Bohannon A myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengths For decades,...

'Freya India is an essential voice on Gen Z' -- Scott Galloway, bestselling author and podcast host Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil,...

The book that explains the masculine subculture of the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an...

Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In...

The book titled How Did it Begin by the author Rabbi Rudi Brasch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This text explains the dynamics of the third industrial revolution by describing a story of human struggle: of diverse peoples and nations faced with the same dangers imposed by unregulated...

Even for a country built on immigration, the continuing high rates of population growth are testing the consensus of national identity and demand a visionary approach to imagine a very...