Is there a blocked vegetarian in your life?
In this second edition of her bold and original book, Carol J. Adams offers real-life advice that vegetarians and vegans can use to defuse any situat..
Be inspired by 21 key writings onnonviolence and reconciliationby Vietnamese peace activist and refugee advocate Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
"The essence of nonviolence is love," Thich Nhat Hanh s..
Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships is an innovative work that explores the concept of intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book provides an ..
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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Updated with a new afterword by the author
'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful loo..
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and poli..
A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year
A Times Business Book of the Year
A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year
'People who like horror films will love this book' F..
In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a mino..
'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' N..
This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions..
An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour
Racism is n..
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generatio..
"Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an..
Updated with new chapters and an introduction for the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the fascinating and authoritative history of Dungeons & Dragons that "tracks D&D's turbulent rise, fall, a..
Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposedpositions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world is builtfrom structures of standards and reason, but ..
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima..
Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of ..
Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights po..
What do you think of when you hear the word "tribalism?" For many, it conjures images of bigotry, xenophobia, and sectarian violence. Others may envision their own tribe: family, friends, and the bond..
Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
A noticeable shift has occurred in the last two decades. The prevalence of hate speech online. The turn toward authoritarianism and ..
"This startling, vital book deserves our attention." -San Francisco Chronicle
For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the..
Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we - as parents, caregivers and as a society - raise our children and dependents ..
The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created, which is threatening democracy and human rights.
'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journa..
Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal ..
In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.
Big Pharma is more ..
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands ..
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands ..
'I am surrounded by women who are emblems of modern feminism and #Girlboss culture. These same women admit to me in private that the hardest part of the day is getting dressed, that they Facetune thei..
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain..
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Randomistas is a brilliant and entertaining exploration of a hidden but vital foundation of modern life.
'The subject of this book could hardly be more vital..
"A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it." -Gabor Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry G..
Why Australians need social connection and community, and how to create it
We're all in this together.
Strong social connections make communities more resilient. But today Australians have ..
Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'.
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Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services..
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger's cat.
Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indig..
A book about how we can reclaim time from a culture that commodifies and capitalises it from the bestselling author of HOW TO DO NOTHING
A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, ..
A riotous tale of pop culture, backstage drama and showbiz gossip from the co-producer of RuPaul's Drag Race and award-winning director Fenton Bailey
World of Wonder is the iconic Hollywood-based..
Michelle Obama's Becoming meets Hygge in this insightful, paperback exploration of gender equity, written by the sitting First Lady of Iceland
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In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescri..
In this vibrant book, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb visually explores gender in all of its complexities, answering questions and providing guidance while also mining history and pop culture fo..
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Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, l..
Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and..
From the bestselling author of "No Logo", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" cracks open the secret history of our era to look at how from a privileged few are making ..
A timely re-examination of the pros and cons of legalizing drug use.
Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this book provides a survey of the history of ..
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight b..
The everything-you-need-to know WIRED guide to the greatest medical threat now confronting us
The number of people dying due to drug-resistant diseases is rising every year. What medical weapons ..
The world today is so complex that it mitigates our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and su..
'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected
We all have ten types of human in our head.
They're the people we become when we face life's ..
An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever.
In the next ten years there will be an unprecedented wealth transfer from t..
Owen Jones's bestseller The Establishment exposed the elites who run our lives. Now The Alternative shows us what we can do about it
We know our world's unequal. But, says Owen Jones, it doesn't ..
A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.
Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first..
A fascinating and important history of meritocracy, and a Times book of the year
Meritocracy- the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at bi..