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'A handbook for these troubled times' Psychologies Magazine'Engaging and informative . highlights our common humanity' Kofi Annan'A passionately writt...
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experien...
Masculinity is being discussed more than ever before, in a range of contexts. People talk about 'toxic masculinity', claim that there is a crisis in m...
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to...
In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those...
This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of ...
Exam board: AQALevel & subject: GCSE SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017 First exams: June 2019Get your students engaging with the 2017 specif...
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty is guided by a simple argument: that motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge - or rather bury - th...
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'I would like to ask that w...
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Where are you really from?You're British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your chil...
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WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
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24 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense...
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post ...
India has one of the richest and most extensive histories of photography in the world with the camera arriving in the country only a few year after it...
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most...
9 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive' John Boyne, author o...
Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015CfE Higher Modern Studies Success Guide provides easy-to-use ...
We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for ...
In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all shar...
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts ...
'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton JohnWINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017St...
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explo...
*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, N...
With beautiful, unique maps and evocative photography, Atlas of Untamed Places is an intrepid voyage to nature's wildest places. In a world that has ...
Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of c...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWinner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Yea...
In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. Novelist Edna O'Brien rem...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary...
'He manipulated me by making me feel special . then duped me into thinking I was to blame.' Hayley was just 12 when she met Mr Willson, the new drama ...
Why do we travel? What are we doing-and what do we imagine we are doing-when we leave the house, get on a plane, and thereby step into globalism? The ...
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built en...
The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider pe...
Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP.
In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising la...
Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to IslamophobiaThe best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People,...
Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Until recently she had always imagined she would meet the right person and fall in love. But, as we all know...
What if simply relaxing and having fun with your kids is actually the best thing you can do for them? As it turns out, science says that it is.In How ...
The perfect guide for resuscitating and renewing relationships. In a love relationship each partner should feel Connected, Protected and Respected - y...
Classic of economic and social theory offers a satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term conspicuous consumption, expo...
A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers...
Featured on Rough Trade's top 20 Books of the Year listLaunched by NME editor and Smash Hits creator Nick Logan in 1980, The Face was Britain's first ...
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queers Who Changed the World is a tribute to some of the most inspirational people of al...
This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a sociologist and the development of his core ideas relating to figurations, interdepe...
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual iden...
Bestselling author Isabel Losada brings her unique blend of humour, curiosity and honesty to the still-taboo subject of sexuality. This is a brave, fu...
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just p...
That Feeling When your brunch doesn't look good enough to Instagram, you put the wrong emoji at the end of a risky text, The Sims is the closest you...
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER LOVE SONG TO THE NATION The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we ...
How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories such as sexuality, citizenship, and ableism? How does an inclusive analysis of domination and privilege move us closer to solutions touching the lives of diverse populations? Mary Romero presents intersec
Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexu...
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is ...