Culture & Society

For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or 'unintentional' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, how they affect our decision-making, and how they reinforce and perpetuate systemic and structural i..

The #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year.'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMAThings aren't as bad as we think. Fact.At last, a ..

From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help. Many of its predictions came true, and..

The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to MentionA fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't.In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivat..

A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, THE FEMALE EUNUCH is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and prese..

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple enjoying the fruits of French rural living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing c..

An innovative and accessible guide to the world's religionsThe Religions Book clearly explains the key concepts behind the earliest belief systems right up to the world's newest religions, getting to the heart of what it means to believe. Principles of the five main world religions - Hinduism, B..

Brand New Book. Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, the most exciting woman in the world . She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among..

Wm Paul Young's 2008 novel THE SHACK was a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Millions found their spiritual hunger satisfied by the New York Times bestseller - the story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Sp..

This book focuses on the history and development of outdoor advertising since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The author examines the rise of 'commercial art', the development of advertising as a discipline and an industry and the role it plays in modern life, also making direct reference t..