Society & Essays

Robert Hannigan Paperback From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativi...

Amber Husain Paperback In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and...

Anna Bogutskaya Hardback 256 pages Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more tha...

Andreas Fulda Paperback 256 pages As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have ...

C.L. Skach Hardback 288 pages We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right fro...

Nathan Thrall Paperback 272 pages A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old ...

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...

Johan Norberg Paperback 352 pages 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 fr...

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 ...

Layal Liverpool Paperback Racism is a public health crisis - and we can do something about it. A ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse...

Roger Hampson & Nigel Shadbolt Hardback 272 pages A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being I...

Legacy Russell Hardback 192 pages, 8pp colour plate section In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visu...

Dana Mattioli Paperback From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating expose of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of tot...

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...

Paperback 256 pages In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that pr...

Hardback 224 pages On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keepin...

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 ...

Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Mariana Mazzucato - Rosie Collington Paperback 368 pages There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must ...

Martin Wolf Paperback 496 pages From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democrac...

Andy Borowitz Paperback 336 pages...

Georgina Sturge Paperback 288 pages [An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy matters to our politics and our dail...

Stanley Tucci Paperback 320 pages From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen - the perfect accompaniment ...

Roger E Backhouse Paperback 496 pages The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the st...