Society & culture: general books

This book presents a richly detailed account of Kant's notion of intuition and his philosophy of perception. It...  Read More >>

Provides nuanced analyses of modernist engagements with car culture  Read More >>

This first-ever volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa offers a collection of case studies by African...  Read More >>

Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers an incisive open access overview of how lively feminist...  Read More >>

This transformative book offers an evidence-based approach to the use of horses in sport. She presents a compelling...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking volume by two of the most influential writers in the field makes the radical argument that...  Read More >>

Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing explores the impact of storytelling and seafaring on Islamic cultural...  Read More >>

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer – a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several...  Read More >>

The best historical evidence for Atlantis is presented, putting it much further into the future than previously...  Read More >>

If a person is being dragged to the bottom of the sea, manacled to an anchor, is it better that they should scream...  Read More >>

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954....  Read More >>

Exploring the global rise and transformation of nationalism, this book shows why nationalism is much more than an...  Read More >>

Examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (1917–1967)  Read More >>

""Deeply reported and persuasively told,Roamis a gorgeous testament to the habitats that sustain life on earth-and...  Read More >>

Incorporating interviews with Venezuelan activists, scholars, politicians, and economists, this book explores Venezuelan...  Read More >>

A deeply researched account of Wittgenstein’s wartime experiences and reading during 1914 and 1917 that reveals...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics provides a clear and comprehensible understanding of the changing...  Read More >>

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This book offers an anthropological inquiry into the labour underpinning immigration detention in Sweden, examining...  Read More >>

Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy squarely confronts the vexing and urgent ethical challenges related...  Read More >>

Immunity and Contagion examines how the pandemic changes the notion of biopolitics, both by intensifying its adverse...  Read More >>

""Enthralling and eloquently bittersweet--a vivid historical portrait of the pivotal yet overlooked struggle to...  Read More >>

This book argues that the thread connecting each method of expression is al-Ghazālī’s dramatic and explicit emphasis...  Read More >>

""[Teeth is] really a show not about vagina dentata but about the cancerous cycles of self-loathing, misogyny, and...  Read More >>

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases....  Read More >>