Social Sciences

In 1621, fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company of London calling for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make...

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025* 'Packed with anecdote and colour, it's...

From Jason Redman, the former Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author of The Trident , writing with his wife, Erica, a battle-tested guide to marital bliss, drawing on...

' 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...

From the author of Work Won't Love You Back , a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss,...

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's...

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How can statistics help us understand the world? Can we come to reliable conclusions when data is imperfect? How is statistics changing in the age of data science? Statistics has...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction narrative chronicles Thor Heyerdahl's groundbreaking expedition to Easter Island,...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsLewis Mumford's seminal work, The Myth Of The Machine: Technics & Human Development, presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis captivating historical account, The Echoing Green: Memories Of Regency & Victorian Youth, chronicles...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the intricate social fabric and daily existence during a pivotal...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical biography, Bertie & Alix: Anatomy Of A Royal Marriage, chronicles the intricate relationship between King Edward...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Chipped DJ with some loss. This classic of English literature, Vanity Fair, presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Signed ephemera laid-in. F. Gordon Roe’s *The Georgian Child* presents a vivid social history that chronicles childhood in...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing on jacketDrinkers of Darkness plunges readers into the heart of colonial Africa, where the oppressive...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJo Manton's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson chronicles the extraordinary life of Britain's first qualified female physician and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerThe Victorian Child presents a comprehensive social history of childhood during the Victorian era. This insightful volume chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the formative period of restrictive immigration policies across North America and Australasia between...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account, Georgian London, chronicles the vibrant social, economic, and architectural transformations of England's capital during...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis captivating memoir, Never A Dull Moment: The Deckkers Of Fountain House Lane, chronicles the vibrant lives and experiences of the Deckker...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCross-Currents In Contemporary Australian Art presents a comprehensive analysis of the diverse artistic movements and influential figures shaping Australia's modern art scene....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCentury Of Happiness: The Centennial History Of The Royal Philatelic Society Of Victoria chronicles the rich hundred-year legacy of one...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: tear on front of jacketOne Day In Victorian England by Alastair Scott offers a vivid snapshot of daily...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis compelling memoir, I Leap Over The Wall, chronicles Monica Baldwin's extraordinary transition from...

Reconnecting in the modern world Despite our interconnectedness, we are stuck in the greatest loneliness epidemic of our time. Journalist Kate Leaver believes that friendship is the essential cure for...

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria,...

'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply...

What was childhood like for the princes and princesses in the Victorian and Edwardian period? Here their education, recreation and general upbringing is discussed, from Queen Victoria's isolated and lonely...

What if something as seemingly academic as the so-called science wars were to determine how we live? This eye-opening book reveals how little we've understood about the ongoing pitched battles...

An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it Why do the revolving doors of power always leave...

Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in the 5th Street Gym for...

'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...

A Church Times Book of the Year 2024 'Essential reading' John Bradshaw, author of In Defence of Dogs 'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Funny, irreverent and enthusiastic, [Pearson] parades his love for all...

'Annie Gray's fascinating history of a British institution in crisis illuminates and entertains' GREG JENNER'Properly immersive, full of juicy sensory detail - Annie Gray's romp down British high streets through...

THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 Ireland is a strikingly...

In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old...

'A must-read for everyone' Stylist 'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times 'A vital work' Stella Duffy In a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to...

The book titled Fathers, Sons and Daughters: Exploring Fatherhood, Renewing the Bond by the author Charles Scull. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region The Mississippi Valley region has long played...

Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary...

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians,...

'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' - Sunday Times At the heart of this history is the female body. The...

With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...