Law, Society & Social Sciences

Synopsis A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year. A Sunday Times Bestseller. Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Essays On Modern Life. Modern life is full of choices. But how do we know what our best life looks like? And what if we get ...

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 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 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 A no-holds-barred, no-filter look at what social media is doing to us as a society, and how we can deconstruct the online fantasy to chang...

Synopsis Winner - The Orwell Prize 2018. People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Lo...

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 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 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 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...