The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: ...
Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments tha...
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define majo...
Of all the controversies facing historians today, few are more divisive or more important than the question of how the Holocaust was possible. What led thousands of Germans – many of them mid...
Can mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they’ve been abducted by aliens? Why do some people make life decisions based on their horoscope?The Psychology of ...
Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics – which saw the threat of fascism...
Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of tho...
Why do children get involved with bullying? Does cyberbullying differ from traditional bullying? How can bullying at school be prevented?The Psychology of School Bullying explores what ...
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the...
How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with?The Psychology of Retirement looks at t...
Why are we fascinated by celebrities we’ve never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new wave of celebrities?The Psychology of C...
When does a harmless habit become an addition? Why do only some of us get addicted? What can make recovery possible?The Psychology of Addiction is a fascinating introduction to the psyc...
A handy and affordable Polish to English and English to Polish reference for every day, including short grammars of Polish and English. Offers travellers and learners at home, school or...
When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wro...
We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us assume that our beliefs and desires arise from the murky depths of our minds, and, if only we could work out how to access this mysterio...
This volume, entitled The Multidimensional Aspects of Asian Politics. From History through the Present to the Future is yet another part of the debate on the problems of contemporary Asia in the re...
The main issue of the research in this work is involvement of social actors in the housing policy process. The literature review leads the author to conclude that in housing studies there exists a ...
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In Unsafe Thinking, creativity guru Jonah Sachs demonstrates that the most remarkable and trailblazing individuals – from the Google programmer who disobeyed his managers in order to revoluti...
The bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk unlocks the secrets of flexible thinkingWhat do Pokémon Go and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have in common?Why do some business...