Society & culture: general books

From Trinidad to the UK, Rudolph Walker's autobiography shares his journey through racism in the 60s and 70s, his...  Read More >>

A visitor to my Village in the Valley could be forgiven for thinking it is a quiet country backwater. But appearances...  Read More >>

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"""Uses interviews and surveys with Indigenous Maya Guatemalans and applies decolonial critical race theory to examine...  Read More >>

This book explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. The chapters explore...  Read More >>

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and...  Read More >>

A debut collection of stories from author Daisuke Shen, wherein divine beings and humans alike must rely on omens...  Read More >>

**Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award** ""This book is an overwhelming feast,...  Read More >>

Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their...  Read More >>

In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how...  Read More >>

'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard 'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno 'Thoughtfully...  Read More >>

Bringing together contributors from Europe, North America and Australia, this book questions the purpose and outcomes...  Read More >>

In this book, Christa Kuljian tells the origin story of feminist science studies by focusing on the lives of six...  Read More >>

Celebrates Marilyn’s ongoing influence on contemporary fashion by exploring her most dazzling looks. Extensively...  Read More >>

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual ‘origins’ of feminist...  Read More >>

This book delves into the aesthetics and processes by which Latinx writers and creatives artfully adapt and appropriate...  Read More >>

Pugliese’s More-Than-Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more-than-human...  Read More >>

This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through changes in its institutions and...  Read More >>

Drawing on studies of international communication and late Qing and Republican newspapers, this book examines the...  Read More >>

This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new...  Read More >>

Seeds For Democratic Futures offers thought-provoking and policy-relevant approaches to democratizing contemporary...  Read More >>

This book offers an analytical tool for identifying and analysing the linguistic mechanisms that shape American...  Read More >>

Richard (Dick) and his wife, Kim, co-own the Cates Family Farm LLC in Wyoming Township, Iowa County, with their...  Read More >>

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