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Over the last century, global inequality has developed and continues to develop in unexpected and disturbing patterns. In this important new book, ...

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the ...

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the ...

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the ...

A global panorama of the historical development and contemporary malaise of liberal democracy, from a renowned social theorist.Barely a century has...

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benj...

Alfred Russel Wallace’s reputation has been based on the fact that, at age thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbl...

The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demandin...

“He was surrounded on every side by those who wanted to be. Some wanted to be famous, some to be praised, some to be on television every night, som...

The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this distinctive and lively c...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents i...

Integrating Gender makes a timely contribution to debate about the social content and internal politics of the European Union. Based on a detailed ...

A shocking exposé of genocide denialIt is twenty-five years since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda when in the course of three terrible mon...

Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

"For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibilit...

This lively new collection from one of America’s leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social sci...

An essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of ‘Scrutiny’ and Culture/MetacultureInto the Melée collec...

Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits...

Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his...

A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from workNeoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more in...