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 War is obsolete.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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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity [9781472947321]

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 'Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying.' - Niall Ferguson '…

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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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Anthropology [9780141983226]

What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it? For well over one hundred years, social and cu…

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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone [9781784704889]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONE FOLIO PRIZE `The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people.' Mail Online `You will not read a…

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Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between [9781787381384]

'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting…

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Primer for Forgetting, A: Getting Past the Past [9781786897428]

We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments …

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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World [9780099526384]

'Important, brave and necessary' Naomi Wolf As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world…

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Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human [9780241951767]

Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. Here he argues persuasively that to understand…

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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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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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The Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace with Your Man [9781416511649]

At 30, Laura Doyle, like millions of women, was miserable in her marriage, but she couldn't put her finger on the cause. 'I was lonely and I was exhau…

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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time [9780241281116]

'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather MakersFrom the prize-winning author of Adventures in th…

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Very Human Ending, A: How suicide haunts our species [9780857524515]

Suicide remains one of the biggest killers in the Western world, yet we struggle to talk about the factors that lead someone to take their own life. M…

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