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Betty Friedan (1921-2006) is hailed by historians as a seminal figure in the 'Second Wave' of the women's feminist movement. In 1957, Fri...

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, in...

Combining data crunching and analysis, personal stories and an international pool of examples, the massive extent to which policy, health...

The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what causes a pol...

A self-professed introvert finds herself bored and lonely and therefore, over the course of a year, gives gregariousness a try - improv, ...

Authority on Russian organised crime Mark Galeotti reveals the history of the much feared Vor v Zakone, drawing on twenty years of on-the...

Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies. She is a ...

Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest,...

From one of China's most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by te...

'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently' Matt Haig 'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLA...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegm...

2015 MacArthur 'Genius' award winner Matthew Desmond is an associate professor of sociology and social science at Harvard University and ...

A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity and how to overcome it

Selected as Book of the Year by the "Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman" and the "Observer", amongst others, this title combines pa...

Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Through ...

Richard Sennett was founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is now University Professor at New York University...

In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I wanted desperatel...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN F...

Subtitled, "How Cooking Made Us Human". Paperback edition of Wrangham's original book, which argues that is was our habit of eating cooke...

Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. A...

Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as two previous volumes in his Homo...

`Writing with her signature blend of poetry and polemics, Naomi Wolf delivers a fiercely courageous portrait of female sexuality in the t...

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are ch...

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "A highly intelligent, fact-based defense of th...

Future Politics confronts the most important question of our time: how will digital technology change society?

AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Fluently written with nice touches of humour . . . this book supplies much food for thought' Fin...

In November 2011, Mona Eltahawy came to worldwide attention when she was assaulted by police during the Egyptian Revolution. She responde...

In this book, we study demographic developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In the past, the demographic developments in ...

The criminal use of false identification is a national problem with a multi-billion dollar impact on government, business, and the genera...

Based on scholarly familiarity with the history and study of international modernisms, the book takes the case of Germany, where it is mo...

Migration and population ageing belong to the central challenges for the current and future Europe. Since 1985, the number of inhabitants...

Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender no...

With material on changing occupational structures and business enterprises of the future, together with questions, case study and project...

A broad analysis of the populist backlash against globalisation, highlighting an emphasis on community as a potential way to continue lib...

A New York Times' science reporter's investigation into the fascinating and distinctive nature of women's friendships, and how they shape...

This groundbreaking study goes inside France's juvenile court system and follows young people, largely of foreign ancestry, from arrest t...

∗ This book contains specially commissioned chapters by leading experts on economic development in the Third World. ∗ Leftwich examines ...

Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier ...

Explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological ra...

The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement and the new fault lines of race, protest...

Sarah D. Wald is assistant professor of English and environmental studies at the University of Oregon.

The field of Senior Citizens and information and communication technology (ICT) is a rather new field and there is not much published in ...

In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on the sociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is in crisis. He ...

Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social an...

The entire world came under the tyrannical rule of the Brotherhood of the Beast-the elites who ran everything. Freedom was becoming a dis...

September 11, 2001 affected every sector of society in the United States. In order to restore the nation's sense of well-being, a new Dep...

Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or s...

For three decades establishment Democrats and Republicans have led a bipartisan assault on immigrants. Pulled further and further right b...

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting...

Money laundering is criminalised virtually all around the world and has been a law enforcement priority since the early 1990s. The intern...

One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in ...

Is 'citizenship' still a useful concept? Can citizens - and democracy - exist independently of the state? This text provides an acces...