Social Issues & Processes

They say everyone today wants to be a celebrity. Certainly, we're all happy to watch them. From reality television and talent shows to tabloid spla...

Losing weight has become the modern woman's holy grail... everything will be better when we're thin.We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodi...

A personal account and look at the chasm of living between two cultures where neither feels like home. Some individuals, especially of non-white h...

Welcome to Constitution Street. In this updated edition, Jemma Neville explores what real life stories from neighbours on one street in Leith revea...

The time for action is now.The fate of the world''s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to t...

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your ability to manage them could ...

Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees and peop...

'The most important book in social science for many years' Paul Collier, TLS Books of the Year The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam's brilliant analysis...

Friday is the New Saturday makes a compelling, provocative and timely case for societal change. Drawing on an eclectic range of economic theory, hi...

Demonstrates the relationship between hazards in the home, health and the costs of poor housing Analyses risks derived from key hazards and the cos...

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which progress has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, ...

  'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle  The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, autho...

Former porn star, Christopher Zeischegg (aka Danny Wylde), gathers six years of writing into one definitive collection. A memoir of an adult film c...

What is the future of welfare in Europe? The European welfare state is generally considered to be one of the finest achievements of the post-1945 w...