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Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx,...

'You should read this book' Philippa Gregory - The most lucrative industries are male-dominated - yet half of men think they're the ones being discriminated against. - Post #MeToo, we're...

Who will win the title of World's Most Record-Breaking Family? The Whipples? Or the Goldwins? Arthur Whipple hasn't broken a single world record. But he may be his record-breaking family's...

'Changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'E nthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON 'A must-read.' - STEPHEN...

A combination of scholarship with quite exemplary thoroughness. SPECTATOR A profoundly intelligent book which combines the results of monumental research with elegance and lucidity.DAILY TELEGRAPH The concept of chivalry is...

Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, imagined fathers, puffed-up with pride fathers, noble fathers, and humanly flawed fathers, loving fathers, exasperated fathers. Literature is full of these but nobody, until Louise Guiness,...

Written in the first person by Steven Mosher, who has helped the Chi family find asylum in the US, this is an account of a young Chinese woman named Chi...

At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our...

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.

A groundbreaking book that reveals the truth about population levels, and where they will take us in the future. Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic...

Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions, Second Edition examines eclectic approaches to group work and discusses ways to help practitioners offer more successful services to clients. This edition...

Approached through the literature and literary personalities of the period, this fascinating study examines sexual behaviour in the Elizabethan age. Although there is much we will never know, poets and...

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...

"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...

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...

Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound...

What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey? In this shining,...

If you are a beginner researcher, the problems facing you are much the same whether you are producing a small project, an MEd dissertation or a PhD thesis. You will...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and compassionate."-Rowan Williams,...

In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why...

Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges! A New York Times...

'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS 'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected...

Cheryl Koenig's life changed forever the day her twelve-year-old son Jonathan was involved in a horrific car accident. Given very little chance of survival, Jonathan was in a coma for...

If you've ever been up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe, you'll know that you long for a way out. You're depressed, your bum hurts, and you feel like...

Nearly fifteen years before the birth of gay liberation, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the world's first organization committed to lesbian visibility and empowerment. Like its predominantly gay male...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the...

New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future Babble "Genuinely arresting . . . required reading for journalists, politicians, academics, and anyone who listens to them."-Steven Pinker, author of...

From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look at the gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood. Mothers Who Think:...

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field "Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sorts...

This is an account of how the pleasures of the seaside were discovered in the Western World. Based on the premiss that how we see the landscape over time is...

Intimate relationships exist in social domains, in which there are cultural rules regarding appropriate behaviors. But they also inhabit psychological domains of thoughts, feelings, and desires. How are intimate relationships...

Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not...

Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what...

Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama....

Birth, puberty, marriage, death - how do we celebrate these and other primal events in our lives? Down the centuries civilizations have used the power and vitality of ritual to...

Provides strategies for identifying and addressing the key issues and concerns that impact on us and our relationships. This book is full of common-sense presented in an-easy-to-read manner.

Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial new conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the...

The classic bestseller on socializing-now fully updated for social interactions in a digital age How to Work a Room (R) is the classic bestselling book on improving communication and socializing...

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Exhibition: 'State of the Waratah' which was an official Olympic Arts Festival event.

Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns...

WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP What makes a leader credible? Who would be an expert in a world where expertise is...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "O ften hilarious and ultimately very touching ." -- People "Have you ever read a book that made you...

'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, Starre...

The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reaching into some of the nation's most fabled periods. It's now an industry worth billions...

Are you depressed by the past? Stressed by the present? Made anxious by the future? Or do you feel elated by the thrill of seizing the day? When you better...

A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial...