Society & Essays

Peter Robison Paperback 336 pages The definitive expose of how Boeing put profit before passengers, leading to the devastating loss of life in the 737 MAX crashes and the downfall of an American...

Paperback 352 pages What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to t...

Paperback 352 pages Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory lo...

Vaclav Smil Paperback 336 Pages We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental ...

Idrees Mughal Paperback 272 pages Are carbs the enemy? Am I getting enough protein? Should I worry about inflammation? Do calories count? And do any diets really work?We are constantly bombarded...

Charles Duhigg Paperback Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giv...

Huggy Rao & Robert I. Sutton Paperback 304 pages The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organization...

Andy Borowitz Paperback 336 pages...

Julia Shaw Paperback 272 pages Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's largest sexual minority. It is a personal journey that starts...

Susan Sontag Hardback 208 pages On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it...

John Green Paperback 336 pages A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green Th...

Dipo Faloyin Paperback 400 pages A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. 'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' ...

Mark Leonard Paperback We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been...

Olivia Laing Paperback 368 pages At a moment in which basic rights are once again in danger, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of ...

Softback 288 pages After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank ro...

Peter Burke Hardback 256 pages, 20 b-w illus. Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of d...

Maggie Nelson Paperback 224 pages Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they se...

Softback Johan Norberg A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels were right when they observed in The Communist Manifesto that free mark...

Chris van Tulleken Paperback An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'ag...

Yascha Mounk Paperback 368 pages One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It'...

Tim Marshall Paperback 320 pages THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, ...

Isabel Wilkerson Paperback 528 pages From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary livesIn...

Claudia Rankine Paperback 176 pages 'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I just knew. 'And you are not the guy a...

Paul Auster & Spencer Ostrander Hardback 160 pages BLOODBATH NATION is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns. ...