Society & culture: general books

Competitive Citites is an assessment of the way in which `partnership', a word much used by politicians, has helped...  Read More >>

An autobiography that captures a young athlete's battle with a devastating diagnosis and the courage and perseverance...  Read More >>

Leerom Medovoi traces the genealogy of contemporary forms of populist racism to offer a global account of how religion...  Read More >>

Shaina Potts traces how the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority in the economies of...  Read More >>

The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa The ports of the Swahili coast-Zanzibar and Mombasa...  Read More >>

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s...  Read More >>

An astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles...  Read More >>

Una guía para conectarte con tus ancestros y sanar tu linaje  Read More >>

Catalonia has for centuries been a destination for immigrants: first from neighbouring regions, then from all over...  Read More >>

Anna Uddenberg's art pursues an ambitious and polarizing perspective on physicality, gender, and commercial aesthetics....  Read More >>

From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse...  Read More >>

""Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based...  Read More >>

While a growing body of scholarship and internal advocacy groups have brought more open dialogue within the Middle...  Read More >>

Law in Light is a groundbreaking book on the resurgence and transformation of Akan path spiritual communities in...  Read More >>

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity...  Read More >>

Reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the 21st century, revealing how it told young people that life...  Read More >>

The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is...  Read More >>

A full-bodied celebration of Birmingham's iconic dish-its origins, its influence, its enduring popularity and its...  Read More >>

A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern...  Read More >>

This volume gathers a premier group of scholars and practitioners to address cutting-edge dilemmas of ""responsible...  Read More >>

In his work the beauty & the boys, photographer Martin de Crignis subtly touches on issues of body cult, naturalness,...  Read More >>

Dr N.J. Nadeem is a dedicated paediatric psychiatrist with an impressive track record of clinical experience, research...  Read More >>

Men and children of the ultra orthodox jewish community put on an array of dazzling costumes. It is bewildering...  Read More >>

This book examines the effects of ecotourism on Indigenous peoples chronicling the costs and benefits of ecotourism...  Read More >>

This book presents a Roman Catholic theology arguing God’s grace abounds beyond the gender binary. In response to...  Read More >>