Society & culture: general books

Scaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its...  Read More >>

An essential 'how to' guide to exploring the British countryside from the Founder of Black Girls Hike, dispelling...  Read More >>

Ce texte est l'ensemble d'idées concernant les notions de texte et de politique. Il y a, dans bien de cas, des liens...  Read More >>

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the...  Read More >>

In this unflinching account of her parenting journey, the author examines the history of adoption in the African-American...  Read More >>

A forgotten classic of 1920s mountaineering literature; Dorothy Pilley broke new ground for women in a sport dominated...  Read More >>

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams...  Read More >>

What happens when you're on holiday and the sun explodes? Lord of the Flies meets White Lotus in this whip-smart...  Read More >>

This book presents recent sociological research investigating the intersection of technology, human sexuality, and...  Read More >>

Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts....  Read More >>

Award-winning actress, bestselling author of This Much is True, and Britain's naughtiest national treasure is back,...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the work of Carlos Fuentes, one of the most widely recognized Mexican novelists. A lucid awareness...  Read More >>

""Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries...  Read More >>

""Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries...  Read More >>

""A former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods...  Read More >>

Braiding memoir and cultural criticism, AN HONEST WOMAN is former sex worker Charlotte Shane’s intimate and incisive...  Read More >>

An international apologist explores the challenges that women leaders face--including finding their voice, navigating...  Read More >>

This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world...  Read More >>

An international apologist explores the challenges that women leaders face--including finding their voice, navigating...  Read More >>

This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world...  Read More >>

"""Founder of deepSEE Consulting shows how to understand and react consciously to cultural differences so we can...  Read More >>

"""Founder of deepSEE Consulting shows how to understand and react consciously to cultural differences so we can...  Read More >>

In seinem wegweisenden Werk ""Theorie der privilegierten Klasse"" analysiert Thorstein Veblen die Dynamiken von...  Read More >>

Join leading researcher Freddy Silva as he takes you on a magical tour around the world to places on the land where...  Read More >>

Of the movies that writers and historians call ""Noir Westerns,"" none is more celebrated than 1948's Blood on the...  Read More >>