Sociologi & antropologi

Sapiens är en storslagen berättelse om människans ursprung, nutid och framtid. Historikern Yuval Noah Harari tar oss med från Homo sapiens första steg på jorden, då vi var ett däggdjur bland alla andra, till idag när vi står som världens obestridd...

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"En av de viktigaste böcker jag någonsin läst - en oumbärlig guide till hur man lär sig att se klart på världen." - Bill Gates När vi människor får frågor om globala trender svarar vi nästan alltid fel. Högskolestudenter, företagsledare, Nobelpris...

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Brought to you by Penguin.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of...

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Något i samhället måste ha hänt. Vi var inte alltid så här oroliga. Inte alltid uppbundna i tankens katastrofscenarier. Vad är det för röst som mal i huvudet? Varför vill den inte sluta, och varför har vi blivit så upptagna av den? I "Tänk om" tec...

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"Det är en alldeles utmärkt bok, väl berättad, väl skriven, med såväl empatisk närvaro som intellektuell skärpa och en milt överseende humor." Leif GW Persson "En blivande klassiker." Göran Greider Hur har adeln lyckats bevara sina privilegier änd...

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Brought to you by Penguin. When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules. Dr Jeff Rediger, a world-leading Harvard psychiatrist, has spent the last fifte...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in somet...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ''Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable'' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kala...

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Med avstamp i de sju dödssynderna beger sig Henrik Brandão Jönsson ut på en jordenruntresa för att skildra den osannolika historien om hur ett av Europas fattigaste länder en gång i tiden var världens mäktigaste nation. Genom upptäcktsresorna spre...

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Vi kommer från mödrarna. Alla mödrar genom historien har haft en sak gemensam - Från Moder Jord till Jungfru Maria och Moder Svea - de har sällan fått komma till tals. Tills nu. I den här boken får du möta 20 mammor bosatta i Sveriges fattigaste o...

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Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, this is the explosive true story of the seven celebrity-obsessed teens who became the most audacious burglary gang in Hollywood history.It?s 19 S...

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Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin?s holiday camps.?When I got to the camp I felt as if I?d suddenly walked into Utopia ? it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering...

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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work?Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From...

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From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home.Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and ...

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A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas.With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who?ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale.T...

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The official companion to the BBC's hit magazine show, The One Show Book will be a compilation of the quirkiest, strangest, most random and most fascinating stories pulled from the brains of Icon Film's One Show research desk.Did you know that Mic...

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Something has gone wrong. We''re living in an age of celebratory racism, extreme inequality, uncertainty and fear. We''re governed by people who claim to be populist but who seem to hate everyone. There are idiots at the wheel and we''re heading f...

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Financial Times Book of the YearTelegraph Top 50 Books of the YearGuardian Book of the YearNew Statesman Book of the Year'Roundly debunks racism's core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power' Reni Eddo-LodgeFor m...

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A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so f...

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'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott, Books of the Year, The TimesWhat drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes ...

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Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, Early is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir and rigorous reporting that tells the story of neonatology - and explores the questions raised by prem...

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A New Scientist Best Book of 2020How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, balancing their protein, fat and carb intake in perfect proportions?In new, groundbreaking research that is trans...

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One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thou...

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From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age-and why we can't stop falling for them."e;Scams are hot right now, and...

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How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intel...

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How identity politics failed one particular identity.?a must read and if you think YOU don?t need to read it, that?s just the clue to know you do.? SARAH SILVERMAN?a masterpiece.?STEPHEN FRYJews Don?t Count is a book for people who consider themse...

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'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery - of the otherness, the boorishness, the inferiority of thy nei...

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In this work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology, Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside Donald Trump?s rallies seeking to understand the strange and powerful trib...

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The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen?Dazzling? New York Times?A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife? Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Va...

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WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL?I am absurdly excited for this book? Caroline Criado PerezBestselling author Katrine¿Marçal¿reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gen...

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