Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its weal...

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to unders...

The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty y...

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong institution...

Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fund...

Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events un...

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political socio...

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. ...

The word 'fascism' sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyo...

Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. Peopl...

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumpti...

Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health....

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office...

Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates...

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided wit...

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are num...

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, tr...

In nine short days, Taliban forces destroyed two decades of American armed statebuilding in Afgha...

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a b...

Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. But how are they changing...

Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of ...

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries - but wha...

For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wa...

This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing rela...

The third edition of Jill Steans' popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up...

Nietzsche's reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philoso...

This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the conseque...

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek is...

The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular c...

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. ...

The pursuit of wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social ...

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literat...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political i...

Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions c...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wre...

'This is a superb piece of scholarship. Joppke manages to cover an extraordinary range of theoret...

Translation of: Oáu suis-je?: leðcons du confinement áa l'usage des terrestres.

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the ...

Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creat...

Stabilizing the world's climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There's no way around it...

Translation of: Le temps du paysage: aux origines de la râevolution esthâetique. Paris: La Fabriq...

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh...

A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as H...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadlie...

'Everything is sad,' wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, proj...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue a...

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate...

What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, an...