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Author Ira Pande Description The relationship between India and China is increasingly important as the balance of power shifts from the West to the East. It will have a significant impact on Asia, as well as the global political and economic climate. However, it is a relationship that is rife with uncertainties and mistrust. It’s […]
Category: Social Science
Stamped from the Beginning | The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Author Ibram X. Kendi Description The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. […]
Period Power | Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You
Author Maisie Hill Description ‘Maisie Hill has written a bloody brilliant book (pun intended). Everything you need to know about periods and how they affect you and your life is here. It’s revolutionary’ – Miranda Sawyer’Thank GOODNESS for Maisie Hill! Flipping open the lid on a vital conversation. It’s about time we claimed the power […]
Lost Connections
Author Johann Hari Description * Pre-order Johann Hari’s new book Stolen Focus now! *THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’A book that could actually make us happy’ SIMON AMSTELL’This amazing book will change your life’ ELTON JOHN’One of the most important texts of recent years’ BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE’Brilliant, stimulating, radical’ MATT HAIG’The more people read this book, […]
The Moment of Lift | How Empowering Women Changes the World
Author Melinda Gates Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In her book, Melinda tells the stories of the inspiring people she’s met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention—from child marriage to gender inequity in the workplace.” — President Barack Obama“The Moment of Lift is […]
Nickel and Dimed | On (Not) Getting By in America
Author Barbara Ehrenreich Description The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by […]
Case Study Research and Applications (6th ed.) | Design and Methods
Author Robert K. Yin Description The Sixth Edition of Robert K. Yin’s bestseller provides a complete portal to the world of case study research. Offering comprehensive coverage of the design and use of the case study method in addition to an integration of applications, the book gives readers access to exemplary case studies drawn from […]
Community Development in an Uncertain World (2nd ed.) | Vision, Analysis and Practice
Author Jim Ife Description In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and […]
The Coddling of the American Mind | How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Author Greg Lukianoff Description Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social […]
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition | A History of Social Welfare in America
Author Walter I. Trattner Description Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner’s From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new […]