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Offshore
Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
Häftad, 2025
119 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, …
Moral Circle
Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Av Jeff Sebo
Häftad, 2026
119 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
215 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 …
Racial Wealth Gap
A Brief History
Inbunden, 2026
200 kr
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Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households in America remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in this sweeping yet accessible history. She shows how decades of the …
Literary Theory for Robots
How Computers Learned to Write
Inbunden, 2024
219 kr
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Chatbots are sure to have a significant impact on the way we read, write and think. For better or worse, they are being used to find information, influence public opinion, diagnose illness and shape political discussion online. How did we get to this point and what can we do to prepare?Literary …
Trafficker Next Door
How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers
Inbunden, 2025
194 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
222 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
252 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
232 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
270 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 …
Moral Circle
Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Av Jeff Sebo
Inbunden, 2025
232 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 …
Sex Beyond "Yes"
Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
Inbunden, 2025
194 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
219 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
226 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
194 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 …
Explorers
A New History
Häftad, 2025
123 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
119 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 …
What's Real about Race?
Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
Av Rina Bliss
Häftad, 2026
119 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Sex Beyond "Yes"
Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
Häftad, 2026
214 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 …
