Culture & Society

In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect ourselves from...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...

Pristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and...

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constr...

Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors' DNA like journals chronicling pe...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating lo...

Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be? Emails are an integral...

Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identi...

Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...

Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 2...

It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campai...

In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to un...

One hundred and fifty Americans are killed each day by the opioid epidemic, described by a former head of the Food and Drug Administration as 'one ...

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning ...

The crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, early racial attitudes, the new Revolutionary com...

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse ...

One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour. In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climb...

This is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...

Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exci...

Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way o...

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultu...

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gend...

From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversie...

Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contempor...

It is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, we are hardwired to d...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...

In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race...

In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a worki...

'This work is about our people's struggle, the historical Black struggle' Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric Robins...

Translated by Richard Philcox Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black exper...

An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will st...

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension...

Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president ...

Good girl. Girlboss. Flawless model. Perfect mother. Organiser. Wonder Woman. Family rock. Feminist go-getter. Brands profit by telling women who t...

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...

In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built...

When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle...

Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 p...

In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Capt...

This anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, D...

Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and that number i...

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world cons...

After all the books that have been written about sex, all the blogs and TV shows and radiO Q&As, how can it be that we all still have so many q...

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, ...

What is the secret of happy relationships? How do companies build collaborative cultures? What lies behind some of the greatest scientific and crea...