A breathtaking and epic exploration of the transforming Arctic. The Arctic was once a place seemingly frozen in time. Now, while the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the herds of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an... Zobraziť viac
A groundbreaking look at the drug changing our bodies, industries, and values. Explore its history, impact, and the complex questions it raises about health, beauty, and equality. Zobraziť viac
A clinical examination of the ways in which early neglect can impact adults throughout their lives, and suggestions for therapists on how to help. Zobraziť viac
Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women - the 'incomplete revolution' of our time;... Zobraziť viac
What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories? Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during... Zobraziť viac
E. M. Forster's novel of a friendship doomed by false accusations and racism set in British India, now repackaged for Union Square and Co.'s Signature Editions series... Zobraziť viac
Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid - the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837 - was forged Zobraziť viac
In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions... Zobraziť viac
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the findings in economics... Zobraziť viac
This is the story of a man caught in the middle of what he came to recognise as a huge American destabilizing operation, illustrating how he plotted the key features of the secret economic war that the United States is waging against developed nations... Zobraziť viac
This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is... Zobraziť viac
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEEThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Zobraziť viac
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLERWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTHWINNER OF 2024 SCOTS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD 2024And I have done more than just simply get bySo much ... Zobraziť viac
Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid ... Zobraziť viac
Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack's three year old says these words, she's not surprised... Zobraziť viac
Pútavo napísaný príbeh rozsiahleho zločineckého obchodu, ktorý je krutý a nemilosrdný a je najdlhšie trvajúcim konfliktom na americkom kontinente... Zobraziť viac
The untold history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda... Zobraziť viac
Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in.. Zobraziť viac
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past... Zobraziť viac
Nice, France, 1911: After three years of marriage, young seamstress Marcela Caretto has finally had enough. Her husband, Michael, an ambitious tailor, has become cruel and controlling and she determines to get a divorce... Zobraziť viac
