Society & Social Sciences

Mad money is a classic of International Relations and international political economy literature. It also has profound modern relevance. First published by Manchester University Press in 1998, the book called for an end to the volatility of international...

Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr. Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle...

Few things in life are moredelightful than sharing in the laughter of a baby. Untilnow, however, psychologists and parenting experts have largely focused onmoments of stress and confusion. Developmental psychologist Caspar Addymandecided to change that...

Japan has produced thousands of intriguing video games. For any number of reasons, not all of them were ever released outside of the country, especially in the '80s and '90s. While many of these titles have since been documented by the English-speaking...

21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five.Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and...

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,...

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from 'top-performing' education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of...

An examination of Franz Neumann's social and political theory in the context of his career as a learner and teacher.A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the...

The Craft of Professional Writing is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer. It covers topics ranging from business writing (advertising, PR) to commercial work (news reporting, feature writing, blogging,...

This book discusses what it means to "perform the State," what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented. The concept of the "State" as a modern phenomenon has had a powerful impact on the...

'Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their...

Anyone can think more creatively and unlock innovation.Creativity is the key to innovation, but too many projects and teams are organized in ways that stifle new ideas. You need to ensure that creativity can thrive-and that you are part of the process...

Dark Waters, Kristine Potter's second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies.Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs,...

An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order.Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The...

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating...

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thought.Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek...

'Krivda' is an ancient Russian word that means 'deceit' with a twist - the subtler, more pernicious connotation of 'reality made crooked'. This word, and its meaning, underpins the discovery of how machineries of 'religion' operate over a long historical...

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and people, A.B. Mitford - who lived...

Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is one of the most influential books ever written on "the way of the warrior." A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines the moral code of the Samurai way of living and the virtues every Samurai warrior...

From the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.It's Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society, what is so attractive to...

An award-winning historian onthe transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics-for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964-or rather, the long 1964, from...

A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shouldersis a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work...

From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life.Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of...

The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino.Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived...

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream.Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. It...

A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn wartorn Syria, a Kurdish democratic society-based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and...

Vanguard follows last year's hit Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta book by J. David Spurlock with definitive reference on Frazetta Book Cover Art.Frazetta is the revolutionary fantasy artist of Conan, King Kong, Death Dealer, Edgar Rice Burroughs,...

Discover, or return to, the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta in this landmark art collection entitled, Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta. Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more...

England's Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars feature on prime-time television; they are named in the national honours lists for their contribution to their sport and to society. The names of Lucy Bronze, Steph Houghton and...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the...

Learn how to critique your own art, quickly identify problems, and fix them to improve both your work and technique. Unlike being in class or in an enthusiast's group, creating alone means critiquing alone. There is so much information available...

Richard Seymour is one of the UK's leading public intellectuals. A regular contributor to a range of periodicals including the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times and the London Review of Books, he combines an incisive and well-honed...

A re-edition of Robin Evans' classic essay anthology Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, originally published by the Architectural Association (AA) in 1997. Featuring a new introduction, the book is the first in a new series of essay...

An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them...

George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is...

With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world - served one dish at a time. 'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the...

On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning...

When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above all by caviar, or of poverty and hunger - of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both of them are...

Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestialitySex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs...

Celebrate your favourite coffee shop and one of the most iconic television series of all time with Friends: The Official Central Perk Cookbook!Gather your friends on your favourite couch and prepare over 50 recipes inspired by the iconic Central Perk caf...

**Selected as one of the 'Biggest Non-Fiction Books of 2019' by The Times**As one of theearliestArabs to join the Afghan Jihad, theAlgerian IslamistAbdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam...

A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill-based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic...

With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces stood ready to evacuate Ukraine's neophyte leader, a man whose main qualification just three years earlier seemed to be having played a president on TV. But in what became an...

The last four decades have been shaped by the rise of Islamist politics across significant swathes of the globe. Whether by gun or by ballot box, various Islamist movements - from as far and wide as the Malian desert and Indonesia's archipelagos - have...

To observers of the Iran-Israel conflict, its vitriolic rhetoric might suggest an ancient hatred between Jews and Muslims - a biblical feud dating back hundreds, or thousands, of years. But this rivalry is a far more modern development.In this...

Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbn. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbn launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's...

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a...

Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough. Yet, today, we face an...