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How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, th...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksJon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: sham...

To what extent are the ideas and practice of community development across Europe similar? Community Development and Civil Society explores this que...

The discovery of a cache of thousands of letters and dozens of diaries brings to light the untold story of Mrs. Tennant and her glittering social w...

PEOPLE OF RAS AL KHAIMAH is an important book. It captures the inimitable atmosphere of the city and its natural environments - the mountains, the ...

For more than half a millennium, Britain has managed diversity through a process of organic integration, with newcomers and their traditions gradua...

Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social scien...

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But mode...

In Generation Scot Y, Kate Higgins explores questions of Scottish identity, culture, society and politics and they way they are viewed by twenty-so...

Stephen Millar returns to explore Edinburgh, its neighbouring Leith and the tribes that reside there. In the book, he discusses how the groups came...

The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This historical volume tracks the changes in education and the so...

An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth ...

In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 ter...

For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Me...

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates...

Using Hamilton's local history to tell the wider story of the North American working-class, Lunch-Bucket Lives investigates how workers dealt with ...