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The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.

This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature,...

An exploration of the rites, rituals and many ways that humans approach death and dying around the world. Greg Palmer tries to discover how human culture responds to the universal...

Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how...

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving...

"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...

This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the...

Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial"...

My purpose is to encourage and help anyone who feels stuck, who is not sure where they're going on this journey called life. For most of my 75 years, like...

A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...

A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...

A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...

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...

International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.

The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson ( ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume....

With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism,and the culture it creates,harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating...

QUILL & QUIRE BEST OF 2016 QUILL & QUIRE BEST COVER OF 2016 We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated if anything, we're told we're oversexed. Yet a...

What, in your relationships, have you chosen? What would you choose, if you felt able? In Love and Choice , therapist and journalist Lucy Fry explains why relationship should start...

A new collection writings by Clare Boyd-Macrae. "Opening these pages, one is admitted into the world of a deeply intelligent, sensitive and sensual woman who loves her husband, her children...

The study explores different patterns in the parent-child relationship, allowing the interviewees to speak for themselves, and then asks how they are affected by gender, social and geographical mobility, or...

Primal curse or sacred duty? Drudgery and toil or the only sure route to human happiness? What we do defines us, and work is the subject of endless fascination. This...

SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A New Statesman Book of the...

this is a book about: the re-building of Australian democracy the re-invention of business and community in a global age and, the re-engagement of government in its task of serving...

Are sports influenced by their social context? Can sport influence the social world? And how is sport changing in our increasingly globalized society? This thought-provoking text explores these questions and...

The 25th annual edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features, including a section exploring the huge global changes since its inception...

How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...

Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender offers a comprehensive introduction to the topics animating current sociological research focused on inequality. Contemporary, engaging, and research-oriented, it is the...

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed...

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...

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective,...

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of...

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....

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...

Reveals an ongoing prevalence of toxic asbestos throughout America, tracing the poisoning rates in the vermiculite mining town of Libby, Montana, and exposing how corporations are successfully covering up their...

What is it like to fall in love with a soldier? What is it like to be a soldier in love? Throughout history, those serving in the British Army have...

By the author of "A Jewish Guide to Adultery". At a time when the institution of marriage is under threat and three in five marriages fail, this book sets out...

A new standalone edition of the second book in the trilogy that inspired ITV''sThe Durrells In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu,...

What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's...

A vital and concise data-driven analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus?...

From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it,...

So, Where's My Happy Ever After? Is Joy Aimee's very personal account of her quest to find the happiness that has always eluded her. When a magical new life beckons...

A Plague on All Our Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided, examining the impact of the pandemic through a unique lens. The book's two...