Society & Essays

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...

Ali A. Allawi Hardback 688 pages A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments ...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

Elizabeth Flock Hardback 304 pages In this profoundly moving book, Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock explores the stories of three women living in deeply patriarchal places with destructiv...

Stephen Wildish Hardback 192 pages Apocalypse.... Now?Prepare for every possible end of days with this essential survival guide. Covering crucial survival skills, the ideal Plan A and Plan B, ...

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...

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...

Serhii Plokhy Paperback 416 pages Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Ru...

George Makari Paperback / softback 368 pages, 40 b-w illus. An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia-and what it means for today's divided world Over the last few years, it ...

G.T. Karber Paperback 384 pages, b/w icons and illustrations Deductive Logico is back on the scene to investigate muders most foul in Murdle: More Killer Puzzles. These fiendishly compulsive mi...

Tahir Hamut Izgil Paperback 246 pages If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful fr...

Mark O'Connell Paperback 287 pages...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

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...

Geoff Dyer Paperback 304 pages In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middl...

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism ...

Scott Shapiro Hardback 432 pages Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton,...

Steven Simon Hardback...

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'...

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...

Sally Hayden Paperback 512 pages The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a...

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...