Society & Essays

Author: Isabella Hammad , Cover: Softback, Pages: 96...

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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...

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...

Phil Elwood Paperback The man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets o...

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...

G.T. Karber Paperback 384 pages Our tireless detective is ready to unwind on a long-awaited vacation ... until a series of fiendishmurders require his particular expertise in this third instalmen...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Kirsty Loehr Paperback 208 pages No, they weren't 'just friends'!Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. Fro...

Annie Lord Softback 400 pages Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse... Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits the past - from the moment she first ...

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...

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...

Angela Gallop Paperback 272 pages CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by lawForensic science is one of the most important aspects of any criminal in...

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...