Society & Essays

Suzanne Wrack Paperback 256 pages This is the inspirational, agenda-changing story of women's football around the world. A Woman's Game explores the history of women's football from the Vic...

Mikki Kendall Paperback 288 pages All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Meeting basic needs is a feminist ...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 672 pages In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the ...

Hardback Ray Kurzweil What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder m...

Softback Ray Kurzweil What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder m...

Geoff White Hardback 288 pages For as long as people have been stealing money, there has been an industry ready to wash it. But what happened when our economy went digital? How does the global u...

Becca Rothfeld Paperback In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso young critic and philosopher Becca Rothfeld turns her clear gaze to a series of interconnected cultural and political questions - ab...

Softback 324 pages Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – th...

Paperback Chris van Tulleken 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 'age of ea...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

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...

Kyle Chayka Paperback 304 pages The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms have...

Hannah Ritchie Paperback We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. ...

Because the only way to avoid the distant relatives asking your about your relationship status during the holidays is to preemptively launch into a diatribe about the finer points of Viennese history...

Huw Lemmey - Ben Miller Paperback 368 pages Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer peop...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback / softback 144 pages A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Reb...

Ben Judah Paperback 496 pages What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has alway...

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Mark Bowden Paperback 320 pages Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by 'The Wire.' Drug de...

Naomi Klein Paperback 416 pages Naomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No Logo, is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet:...

Leah Cowan Paperback 240 pages Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are suppos...

George Monbiot Hardback 224 pages This book is dynamite – shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shattering the myth that ‘there is no alternative’, and laying the foundations f...