Richard (New York University) Sennett

A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."-Studs Terkel, author of Working

This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption t

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the

Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? This

Books about the origins of humanity dominate best-seller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings a

Mensen zijn sociale wezens en elke maatschappij is op samenwerking gebaseerd. Maar in onze neoliberale samenleving komen we nauwelijks in aanraking me

Wie heeft de beelden op Paaseiland gemaakt? Waar vind je reuzenschildpadden en dwergolifanten? Wie lagen er voor Pampus? En welke eilanden dreigen kop

"There is no better guide to virtually all one needs to know to begin to appreciate what myth was and meant to the ancient Greeks. Exploring Greek Myt

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that the American story is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619,

The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right bo

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is s

'A memoir about [Flanagan's] parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West . .

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology labo

The godfather of British nature writing reflects on the conflict between cultivation and autonomous nature

Shining a light on who pirates really were, and how the well-known ‘skull and crossbones’ Hollywood stereotype evolved