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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important book to be publ...

We Should All Be Feminists

The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah. In this personal, eloquently-arg...

Yuval Noah Harari Box Set

SAPIENS HOMO DEUS 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY These books are must haves for anyone interested in the history of humanity and th...

The Tipping Point

In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and...

How to be an Alien in England

'In England everything is typical. If your train is late, it is typical. If there are no seats on the upper deck of a bus, it is typical....

The Minds of Billy Milligan

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by tw...

Humans

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of...

Shaking Hands with the Death

‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things -- the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if...

A Country Full of Aliens - A Briton in Hungary

Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Transitional Societies

Both the extent and the character of poverty in Eastern Europe appear to have changed with the transition from socialism to a market econ...

Building Nations with Non-Nationals

Szelényi Iván, a neves szociológus 2010-14 közötti kutatásának tárgya az Egyesült Arab Emirátusokban dolgozó pakisztáni vendégmunkások mu...

Bad Feminist - Essays

One of our most indispensable writers . . . on everything that matters

The Coming Wave - Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

**A Sunday Times, Economist, Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** AI...

Sex at Dawn - How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

In this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everythi...

Practice of Everyday Life

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by indivi...

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born ...

Hood Feminism - Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist move...

Autonomy Arrangements around the World - A Collection of Well and Lesser Known Cases

A kötet a kolozsvári Babes-Bolyai Tudományegyetem Politikatudományi Intézete, a European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Németorsz...

The Next 100 Years - A Forecast for the 21st Century

Friedman, a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, turns his eye to the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and g...

Sex at Dawn - The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science?as well as religious and cult...

Innovative persuasions

Grow Food for Free - The easy, sustainable, zero-cost way to a plentiful harvest

Guidance on growing food without paying much, finding things to plant from the fridge and land to use for free or as a favour, and bringi...

AI 2041 - Ten Visions for Our Future

A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelli...

Caste - The Origins of Our Discontents

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • "An instant American classic and almost ...

Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World

The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status ...

Ace - What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Ace" delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can le...

Sociology

Over a million copies sold worldwide The indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly re...

Manufacturing Happy Citizens - How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is ha...

The Corpse Walker - Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but ha...

Understanding Central Europe - Nations and Stereotypes - Essays from the Adriatic to the Baltic Sea

A kötet angol nyelvű válogatás Kiss Gy. Csaba 2005 óta született esszéiből, tanulmányaiból. Közép-európai határterületekről, határvidékek...

Writing Culture - The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms,...

The Location of Culture

In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultu...

Future Crimes - Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World

From former FBI Futurist, Interpol advisor and beat cop Marc Goodman, a deep dive into the digital underground illuminating the alarming ...

Between the World and Me

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE ...

Representation - Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

Highly anticipated Second Edition of one of the most popular and influential books ever written in media and cultural studies. A genuine ...

Not That Bad - Dispatches from Rape Culture

In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has collected original and previously published ...

The Sexual Politics of Meat - A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingra...

Material Girls - Why Reality Matters for Feminism

'Brave, enlightening, closely argued' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential ...

Abolish the Family - A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?

Seeing Like a State - How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times ...

Making Sense - Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popul...

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped...

Language Shift Among The Moldavian Csángós

The attitude towards the Moldavian Csángós are still determined by the ideologies inherited from the Communist era which consider the eth...

Understanding Human Evolution

With hands-on experience, case studies and further examples, this book is an essential practical guide to computational nanomechanics. Th...

He/She/They - How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

How can we change the conversation around gender, become better allies, challenge misconceptions and make the world a better place? Anti-...

The Genetic Lottery - Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

"A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists...

Feminism for the 99% - A Manifesto

From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough. Unaffordable housin...

Self-Made Man - One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

A journalist's provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man. Norah Vincent became an instant medi...

Our Women on the Ground - Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay coll...

Poverty, by America

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and c...

Flowers of Fire - The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' s Rights Worldwide

"An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea-one that the world should be watching"--

The Coming Wave - Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

**A Sunday Times, Economist, Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** AI...

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

An accessible, analytical look at how influential female celebrities are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an 'acceptable' wo...

The Queer Art of Failure

Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films.

Managed Heart - Commercialization of Human Feeling, Updated with a New Preface

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer ex...

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousand...

TRANS - When Ideology Meets Realilty

'An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight...Open conversation ab...

Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, an...

Polysecure - Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-monogamy

A practical guide to nurturing healthy, loving non-monogamous relationships using attachment theory. Attachment theory has entered the ma...

On Our Best Behaviour - The Price Women Pay to Be Good

*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'A guide to liberation and a r...