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How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bai...

If you haven�t followed the money, chances are you don�t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into th...

This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the ...

The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi’s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his...

How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world...

How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world...

The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology a...

The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology a...

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This ne...

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This ne...

In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern worl...

In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret Thatcher’s controversial...

In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret Thatcher’s controversial...

This volume identifies the main changes in the British state since 1945 and evaluates their consequences. It provides students and practitioners wi...

Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet w...

Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet w...

What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a wat...

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, line...

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, line...

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberate...

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberate...

We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relat...

We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relat...

Not so long ago, people thought that a ten-hour, six-day week was normal; now, it’s the eight-hour, five-day week. Will that soon be history too? I...