
A Chance Of A Lifetime
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...
View full detailsLee 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...
View full detailsNature, 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 ...
View full detailsConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...
View full details'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...
View full detailsAfropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identi...
View full detailsAgainst Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...
View full detailsOne 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 ...
View full detailsIn 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 ...
View full detailsThe crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, early racial attitudes, the new Revolutionary com...
View full detailsThis is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...
View full detailsIn Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has...
View full detailsDrawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exci...
View full detailsOne 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...
View full detailsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversie...
View full detailsBill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty aro...
View full detailsIt is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, we are hardwired to d...
View full detailsAn infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together ...
View full detailsIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited fro...
View full detailsIn 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...
View full detailsAn 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...
View full detailsWriter and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games crea...
View full detailsWith two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children’s favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? I...
View full detailsThe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...
View full detailsWhy is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...
View full detailsIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built...
View full detailsBeginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, vi...
View full detailsIn Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Capt...
View full detailsBeyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson g...
View full detailsSix 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...
View full detailsFacebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world cons...
View full detailsWhat does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely j...
View full detailsDense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, ...
View full detailsTranslated by Laurent Dubois In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-fr...
View full detailsConsidered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil ...
View full detailsHave you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biolo...
View full detailsTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking th...
View full detailsBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...
View full detailsEven with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to ...
View full detailsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers,...
View full detailsNutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almo...
View full detailsLynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on ...
View full detailsDuring the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge,...
View full detailsWhat extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...
View full detailsWhat should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today...
View full detailsHow food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food jus...
View full detailsShannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen...
View full detailsFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figure...
View full detailsNew York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic...
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