Society & culture: general books

Examining journal drawings as an integral—and often delightful—feature of Thoreau’s work In 1850, Henry David...  Read More >>

Our phones are deliberately engineered to be impossible to put down. Anna Hewitt tells the story of why. Smart,...  Read More >>

When a catastrophe destroys Antonia Silva's life, a dream of a new world offers hope, if she can survive long enough...  Read More >>

Through an exhaustive survey of medieval, early modern, and contemporary literature, art, and cinema, Sophia Rose...  Read More >>

Costa Rica is the only fully demilitarized, completely independent country in the world. Through good luck, good...  Read More >>

The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited volumes that explore the role of human flourishing...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking exploration of how fatherhood transforms men's...  Read More >>

A diamond-sharp study of toxic love, crisis and recovery, at once moving and whip-smart, from prizewinning poet...  Read More >>

The fascinating inside story of the British aristocracy since the Second World War. There are fewer than 5000 people...  Read More >>

A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self Modern life...  Read More >>

The enthralling insight of We Are Bellingcat meets the human drama and compassion of The Devil You Know- this is...  Read More >>

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up... Over the past decade,...  Read More >>

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today's political debates are fiercely polarized. But...  Read More >>

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