Sociology & anthropology

Three Women [9781526611635]

All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted wa…

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow [9781784703936]

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in c…

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Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health [9780241309278]

In industrialised nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are…

What Have I Done?: An honest memoir about surviving post-natal mental illness [9781529110210]

This is a raw and honest memoir about being devastated by post-partum psychosis and coming through the other side. Laura Dockrill had an idyllic preg…

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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone [9781787384644]

You're told that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'exposure' and 'experien…

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Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century [9780241391570]

'An uplifting book, celebrating wisdom and virtue. And a hopeful book at just the time when we need it' - Paul Collier A good society needs a balance…

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Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking [9781526605030]

Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse. 'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson …

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The Sociology Book [9780241182291]

All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to sociology. Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Sociology Book introd…

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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City [9780713998757]

In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are bui…

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent [9781781255834]

It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect,…

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Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time [9781526604996]

We live in a society where work defines who we are, what we do and who we spend our time with. But this wasn't always the case. For 95% of our history…

Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress [9781451659108]

The New York Times bestselling co-author of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which progress has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, ma…

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The Book of Tea [9780241251355]

'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pine…

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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone [9781911214175]

Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction, a heart-breaking and intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the personal a…

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things About the World You Probably Didn't Know [9780241454411]

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what m…

Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control [9781783782413]

We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the m…

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity [9780241402429]

AUTHOR: David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit …

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33 Meditations on Death: Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine [9780857526946]

What is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly? This unusual and…

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Anthropology: A Beginner's Guide [9781851689309]

In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the …

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The Handshake: A Gripping History [9781788167802]

'Al-Shamahi's beguiling book has a more general claim to attention than merely being an account of the crisis in manners that Covid has made … …

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