Law, Society & Social Sciences

Synopsis As a society, we are captivated by policing; we watch police procedurals and fly-on-the-wall documentaries and absorb the headlines on t...

Synopsis So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. The bo...

Synopsis When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy...

Synopsis Putting a lit match to the lies, headlines and statistical twaddle that seeks to frighten us, this title explores 40 reasons for worry: ...

Synopsis With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain. How did we get to be like this? No previous ge...

Synopsis 'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I wan...

Synopsis The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is often described as the toughest job in the world. He (there had never been a woman in 140 y...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014. 'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dre...

Synopsis Subtitled : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in ...

Synopsis Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal h...

Synopsis Known for its detailed and authoritative approach, the authors of Smith & Wood's Employment Law provide a comprehensive, yet accessibl...

Synopsis Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book ...

Synopsis The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currentl...

Synopsis Guardian journalist Jon Ronson's Them began as a book about different kinds of extremists, but after Jon had got to know some of them - Is...

Synopsis Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. The Audacity of Hype brings togeth...

Synopsis The scientific companion to the bestselling "Affluenza". This book provides hard evidence that Free Market Economics causes mental illness...

Synopsis The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives Why do so many of us love o...

Synopsis Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Les...