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What Is Cybersecurity For?
Av Tim Stevens
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future?Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and thrive, yet public understanding is still rudimentary: media portrayals of hoodie-wearing hackers …
What Are Prisons For?
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social …
What Is Philanthropy For?
Häftad, 2023
147 kr
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Does charitable giving still matter but need to change?Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has been much criticised in recent years. Do elite philanthropists wield too much power? Is big-money philanthropy unaccountable and therefore anti-democratic? And what about so-called …
What Is War For?
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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How does armed conflict shape global politics? And, critically, can it ever be regulated, a necessary first step to achieving a more peaceful world?This book examines the factors that define and shape war in the contemporary world, and how changes to technology and society are transforming warfare. …
What Are Animal Rights For?
Av Steve Cooke
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how …
What Are the Olympics For?
Häftad, 2024
137 kr
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‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on …
What Is Anthropology For?
Av Kriti Kapila
Häftad, 2027
200 kr
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Should anthropology, a discipline that originated in the colonial 19th century, still exist in the 21st? In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and campaigns to decolonise the curriculum, isn’t it irredeemably contaminated by its past?As a western-trained Indian anthropologist, Kriti Kapila …
What Is History For?
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake …
What Are Zoos For?
Av Heather Browning, Walter Veit
Häftad, 2024
137 kr
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Are zoos an anachronism in the 21st century when we can watch animals in their natural habitat, close-up from our couches without worrying about cruelty? Should they go the way of other bygone era ‘spectacles’ and ‘attractions’ that we now regard as barbaric? There are vocal campaigners and …
What Are Museums For?
Av Jon Sleigh
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative?In this passionately argued book, Jon …
What Are Nuclear Weapons For?
Häftad, 2025
136 kr
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Peacekeepers, effective deterrent or potential cause of ultimate disaster? Understanding what nuclear weapons are for has never been more essential.This book traces the history of nuclear weapons from their first use in 1945 when they brought the Second World War to an end, through the Cold War …
What Is Free Speech For?
Av Gavan Titley
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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Free speech drives conflicts about who speaks, but who is heard is rarely considered. As digital media push deeper into our lives, free speech involves not only limits, but seemingly limitless communication, transforming what is at stake on tech platforms and in political protests, in universities …
What Is Veganism For?
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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Across the world, an increasing number of people are turning to veganism, changing not just their diets, but completely removing animal products from their lives. For some, this is prompted by concerns over animal ethics; for others, it’s a response to the part played by animal agriculture in the …
What Is Counterterrorism For?
Häftad, 2024
126 kr
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Terrorism will always be frontpage news – counterterrorism is often discussed as an afterthought, yet it is vitally important to understand what is done in the name of our safety.Since 9/11, there has been a huge ramping up of the state’s special powers in the name of security, such as indefinite …
What Is the Monarchy For?
Av Laura Clancy
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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Does the British monarchy still have a place in today’s society? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘exit’ cast light on institutional racism, multiple allegations around Prince Andrew highlighted troubling attitudes to gender and power, while the abolition of monarchy in Barbados accentuated its …
What Is Journalism For?
Av Jon Allsop
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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What is at stake when journalism is threatened? Does society still need journalists?Journalism faces multiple threats today all over the world: economic decline, online disinformation, the rise of AI, authoritarian curbs on freedom of the press, and violence against journalists. In such a climate, …
What Is Immigration Policy For?
Häftad, 2026
128 kr
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A deeply researched look at the debate around immigration policy, and possible paths forward.Does political rhetoric on immigration policy match what is actually happening on the ground? Why do well-intentioned plans fail? Could immigration policy be done better? This book explores what immigration …
What Is Drug Policy For?
Av Julia Buxton
Häftad, 2025
128 kr
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The production, sale and possession of some drugs is criminalized – but why? And why, despite vast resources and budgets, have international efforts to control them so consistently failed?Julia Buxton looks at how our current drug control regime came about from the first US-driven international …
What Is Humanism For?
Häftad, 2025
139 kr
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Religious belief is declining in many parts of the world, yet people still seek purpose in their lives and guidance on how to navigate life’s challenges. Humanism is a broad tradition of thought and action which encourages thinking for yourself about what to believe and accommodating diversity. …
What Is Space Exploration For?
Av Anthony Milligan, Koji Tachibana
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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In an era of unprecedented climate challenges, should we still be trying to explore space or should all our scientific attention be focused here on Earth? If space is becoming a playground for billionaires, will that enflame tensions between superpowers with potentially disastrous results? What is …
What Are Markets For?
Häftad, 2026
141 kr
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A new perspective on the role of the market, and its future place in society.Markets are apparently straightforward: they connect buyers to sellers. But their operation is complex, depending on places, things, networks and performances. Belief in markets is a cultural and political ideology. They …
What Is FIFA For?
Häftad, 2026
126 kr
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A wide-ranging look at football’s powerful but controversial governing body.Football is the world’s most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, much of which flows to FIFA, the sport’s international …
What Is Truth For?
Av N.J. Enfield
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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Truth is for striving at, for the sake of good collective action.With new media technologies, it seems that falsehoods can spread faster and further than ever. And with new norms of public discourse, while being caught in a lie would once end a politician’s career, today it is shrugged off, which …
What Is the Welfare State For?
Av Paul Spicker
Häftad, 2025
126 kr
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Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now have national schemes in place for cash …
