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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...

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on ...

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 provocative book looking at the changes we can expect in the 21st century, drawing on history and geopolitical patterns dating back hun...

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

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

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

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

'As the world, besieged by ever more titanic storms and wildfires, threatens to explode into a terrifying new normal, books like this . ....

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Now that academics are required to be teachers, managers, media catalyzers, analysts, fundraisers, and social media animals: How do you s...

Robert Bly is a poet, storyteller, translator and worldwide lecturer. His poetry has won many awards, including the National Book Award. ...

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

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

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

How the law harms sex workers--and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Shou...

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 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...

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

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 298. Chapters: Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, Manu Chao, Carlos Santana, Miguel Bosé, Celia C...

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

This work discusses the new conjunctions that have emerged between foreign policy events and politicized expressions of Russian nationali...

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponen...

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

Praise for the first edition: 'No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.' - Stanley Cohe...

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

Michael Hames-García is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.Ernesto Javier Martínez is Assistant Professor of Women’s...

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...

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Chapters: Corbin Fisher, Lucas Entertainment, Nova Studios, Treasure Island Media, Flava Works, Falcon Ente...

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...

Leading Theories of Delinquent Behavior and Criminology covers major theories of crime, delinquent behavior, and criminology. This introd...

Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania,...

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

Many people argue that offending behaviour is one of the most problematic issues in our communities today. An offender's decision to reso...

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...