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The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport
A highly entertaining romp through sporting history's best sins and greatest sinners. WHERE THERE'S SPORT, THERE'S SINNING. Name a global sports icon and there will be a sin or two....
The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world,...
Consuming Culture: Why We Eat What We Eat and What it Says About Us
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Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork
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Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege: The View from the
Exclusive social clubs are traditionally an important site for the consolidation of upper-class power. Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege shows that while the particulars of admission have changed,...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled
'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford'[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy matters to...
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER READ OF 2024'Enthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON'A must-read.' - STEPHEN FRY'Spectacular. Changed my perspective on the whole living world.' - CHRIS VAN...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and a powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change.'This is not another book about...
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address...
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
New Perspectives on Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On...
Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy
In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
"Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its 'symbiotic living ecosystems.' The result is a potent look at the...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
"As visually arresting as it is informative."-The Boston Globe"Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America."-Fast Company's Co.DesignW.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits...
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal...
The Mummies of Urumchi
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...
View from the Second Row
The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....
Radicalism and Music
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Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. It makes a case for the careful examination...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right
Author: Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago)Format: Paperback, 155mm x 234mm,...
Arendt's Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship
Author: Jonathan Peter SchwartzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
Author: Charlayne Hunter-GaultFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 270g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work...
The Sociological Quest: An introduction to the study of social life
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Genetic Counselling: Practice and Principles
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Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All
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Borders Up!: Eastern Europe Through the Bottom of a Glass
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Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline
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Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets
Author: Jennifer KavanaghFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 320g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2022In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
Pleasure of Thinking
Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 170g, 224 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in...
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry
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Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic: In Their Own Words
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Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change: International Perspectives
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Author: Chris Bail Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A revealing look at how user behaviour is powering deep social divisions online - and how we might yet defeat political...
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
The Contraceptive Revolution
Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at some time and...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Author: Elise Loehnen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'A guide to liberation and a return to the...
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "In June 1701, a young widow, Mary Grosvenor wakes up in a hotel room in Paris and finds a man in...
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Author: Elise Loehnen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'A guide to liberation and a return to the...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
Author: Rupert Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
Author: Rupert Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....