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The Moral Circle
Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Av Jeff Sebo
Häftad, 2026
118 kr
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Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritise humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of billions of vertebrates and trillions of invertebrates every year for a variety of purposes, often …
Against Technoableism
Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Av Ashley Shew
Inbunden, 2023
211 kr
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When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemo-brained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning people called her an “inspiration” while grocery shopping, or viewed her as a needy recipient of …
The Trafficker Next Door
How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers
Inbunden, 2025
193 kr
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The phrase “human trafficking” often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers—who suffer abuse at the hands of “ordinary” family employers. Drawing on twenty years of research across three …
Wild Girls
How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Av Tiya Miles
Inbunden, 2023
217 kr
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Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they …
Imagination
A Manifesto
Inbunden, 2024
219 kr
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A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by mass …
What's Real about Race?
Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
Av Rina Bliss
Inbunden, 2025
230 kr
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Biologically, race does not exist. But in our social world, it remains decidedly important. Mainstream scientists embrace these truths, yet misinformation about human variation and genetics persists in our society. What is the true relationship between the two? And how should we talk about identity …
Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Inbunden, 2025
263 kr
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Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterised as “inaccessible”, “irrelevant” or “intimidating”. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to …
Fewer Rules, Better People
The Case for Discretion
Av Barry Lam
Inbunden, 2025
233 kr
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Wherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it—or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawed and sometimes arbitrary outcomes. But is their use of discretion good or bad overall? As a …
The Moral Circle
Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Av Jeff Sebo
Inbunden, 2025
230 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritise humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of billions of vertebrates and trillions of invertebrates every year for a variety of purposes, often …
Sex Beyond "Yes"
Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
Inbunden, 2025
193 kr
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Today’s conversations about sex often focus on consent—who has given it, when one has it and how to get it. However, good, fulfilling sex requires more than securing a “yes” from a partner. It requires a variety of kinds of communication, as well as social circumstances that support sexual agency …
Offshore
Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
Inbunden, 2024
217 kr
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This engrossing deep dive exposes how the shadowy global system of offshore finance fuels economic crises and austerity while also undermining democracy and the rule of law. Sociologist Brooke Harrington trained as an offshore wealth manager then spent years immersed in tax havens around the world, …
Explorers
A New History
Inbunden, 2024
224 kr
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The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures—including Sacagawea, Pocahontas and Dr Livingstone—with tales of individuals who are usually denied the title “explorer.” …
Gather
Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
Inbunden, 2026
193 kr
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How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues for a new vision of food justice that centres the resilience of Black communities and argues that community nourishment deserves as …
Medicine by the People
How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare
Av Jim Downs
Inbunden, 2026
239 kr
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Most histories of medicine centre doctors. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have on medicine and public health. In colonial America, Black people’s knowledge led to smallpox inoculations, stymying that epidemic. Midwives, more plentiful than doctors, delivered babies …
Explorers
A New History
Häftad, 2025
122 kr
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The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures—including Sacagawea, Pocahontas and Dr Livingstone—with tales of individuals who are usually denied the title “explorer”. …
Fewer Rules, Better People
The Case for Discretion
Av Barry Lam
Häftad, 2026
118 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Wherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it—or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawed and sometimes arbitrary outcomes. But is their use of discretion good or bad overall? As a …
What's Real about Race?
Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
Av Rina Bliss
Häftad, 2026
118 kr
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Biologically, race does not exist. But in our social world, it remains decidedly important. Mainstream scientists embrace these truths, yet misinformation about human variation and genetics persists in our society. What is the true relationship between the two? And how should we talk about identity …
The Trafficker Next Door
How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers
Häftad, 2026
212 kr
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The phrase “human trafficking” often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers—who suffer abuse at the hands of “ordinary” family employers. Drawing on twenty years of research across three …
Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Häftad, 2026
136 kr
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Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterised as “inaccessible”, “irrelevant” or “intimidating”. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to …
Sex Beyond "Yes"
Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
Häftad, 2026
125 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Today’s conversations about sex often focus on consent—who has given it, when one has it and how to get it. However, good, fulfilling sex requires more than securing a “yes” from a partner. It requires a variety of kinds of communication, as well as social circumstances that support sexual agency …
