Society & culture: general books

“Korean author Park Seolyeon’s English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying...  Read More >>

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When a hereditary cancer threat echoes her mother’s journey, one woman chooses to rewrite her story—crafting a radiant...  Read More >>

A gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful...  Read More >>

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production and struggles over...  Read More >>

Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and...  Read More >>

An outsider's tale of discovering the worlds of nature and adventure, and himself along the way  Read More >>

This guidebook highlights 43 intriguing, little-known destinations in the northern part of the Florida peninsula...  Read More >>

This book recounts two stories of small-town injustice that rose to national prominence at the end of the Reagan...  Read More >>

This comprehensive text offers an accessible introduction to the field of childhood studies.  Read More >>

This volume will be of interest to academics, researchers, students, activists, journalists and policy makers who...  Read More >>

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence–human and artificial–manifests under conditions...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2024 Prototype Prize, Significant Others is composed of a series of hybrid texts which explore intimate...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

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Zoo Animal Welfare unpicks the different concepts of welfare in the zoo and aquarium, considering how enclosure...  Read More >>

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′Since its very first edition, Social Cognition has been the undisputed bible of the field.  Insightful, authoritative...  Read More >>

While doing research for a term paper on civil rights for his ninth-grade civics class in the spring of 1976, Mike...  Read More >>

Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Price Level (1935) looks at the mechanisms used by the government to control the trade balance and price level...  Read More >>

The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and...  Read More >>

Investment Economics (1969) examines the process of investment decision-making in firms, looking at the theory of...  Read More >>