The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
5.51 USD
21.95 (74% off)
Category: Social Sciences
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too, and these were people and places it needed to understand and embrace if it wan ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
6.13 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Social Sciences
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
4.73 USD
15.39 (69% off)
Category: Social Sciences
The non-fiction phenomenon of the year and #1 Sunday Times bestseller by leading psychotherapist, broadcaster and agony aunt, Philippa Perry.Perry's unique take on the relationship between parents and children became an instant favourite of both. In this paperback edition, she encloses an exclusive addi ...Show more
Comedy by Matthew Bevis
3.75 USD
12.59 (70% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Very Short Introductions
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encoura ...Show more
Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities by Lindemann, Hilde (Professor of Philosoph
28.35 USD
42.00 (32% off)
Category: Social Sciences
The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible. Our identities give us our sense of how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so how we hold each other in our identities i ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
3.68 USD
7.89 (53% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
What We Really Do All Day by Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan
5.48 USD
13.99 (60% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Pelican Bks.
Are we spending more time at work than we would have 50 years ago? Are we sleeping less? How has the Internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surpris ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
13.99 USD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good-very good
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
Afropean - Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
28.01 USD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon wit ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
29.40 USD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more