Society & culture: general books

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

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

An urgent examination of Canada’s legal, cultural, and historical acceptance of corporal punishment and the children...  Read More >>

In How We Heal, La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, makes a powerful case...  Read More >>

In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical...  Read More >>

A gripping near-future thriller exploring the detrimental effects of climate change on ordinary lives.  Read More >>

A powerful personal manifesto against shame that empowers us and calls us to action - from the author of Unmasking...  Read More >>

A love letter to liberation, from Palestine to the ground beneath your feet. When you think of freedom, where are...  Read More >>

An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritual, Embodiment,...  Read More >>

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""This collection explores how government control, censorship, and authoritarianism are exercised through communication...  Read More >>

""As China's impact on global agriculture deepens, the book shows how community intermediaries in Australia, Latin...  Read More >>

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice are complex, messy, and gravely important issues....  Read More >>

Anxiety. Doubt. Faith. Friendship. Success. Work. These are just a few of the timely topics included in this refreshing...  Read More >>

This devotional will walk you through 200 encouraging, inspiring, heartfelt, hope-filled prayers that will help...  Read More >>

Keep your practice sharp wherever you go.  Read More >>

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A stunning new critique of the art world  Read More >>

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics  Read More >>

Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging history of how psychiatry's incorporation of media and technology has been...  Read More >>

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

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Absolute revelation comingles with human reason and is communally celebrated in art, religion, and philosophy. This...  Read More >>

A moving memoir about grief, growth and sisterhood from acclaimed poet and author of Promise, Rachel Eliza Griffiths...  Read More >>