Society and culture: general Books

A hilarious and horrifying journey into the dark heart of the New Normal Reich." C. J. Hopkins's latest volume of Consent Factory Essays chronicles his Kafkaesque prosecution in Germany, the broader crackdown on dissent throughout the West, and other...

From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters"Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he...

Unravel the fascinating history of the turban, from its origins to its religious uses and its appearance in contemporary fashion and culture.A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious...

'Open Play challenges the patriarchal system that has dictated women's participation in sport around the world...This book is not just a must-read it should become foundational in the future of women's sport from the grassroots to professional levels.'...

This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account...

An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an 'ideal' family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France's...

For most people, the main point of access to the health system is through primary health care (PHC). The fundamental premise of primary health care is that all people, everywhere, have the right to receive the appropriate care in their community. Primary...

The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind survey of the linguistic landscape surrounding queerness in the Arab world. It brings together more than 300 words and terms used to refer to queer people across the spoken Arabic dialects, ranging from the...

A posthumous book by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, sharing the strategies and secrets of an award-winning, fifty-year career as a college professor "Not a few professors teach solely because they have to, to hold a position that...

Speak The F*ck Up is a soul-searching excavation, an incredibly uncomfortable reckoning, and the start of a journey. It's an intensely vulnerable and all-too-personal account of all the times the author failed to speak the f*ck up and what you can learn...