Society & social sciences

A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman.

Product Description INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psych...

THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking t...

Hitting Against the Spin is Freakonomics for cricket.

This title deals with the hidden powers of clandestine organisations from the Ancient World to the present day. Throughout history Man's search f...

In 1993 the esteemed journal FOREIGN AFFAIRS published an article entitled "The Clash of Civilizations?" by Samuel P. Huntington. According to the ...

Product Description 'Powerful [and] intelligent' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington P...

Review An essential tool for parents, teachers and carers, hoping to positively influence a child's journey into a future that holds increasing un...

Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists...

No fuss, no filler, no waffle - hundreds of photocopiables for lessons across the curriculum with great ideas at a price you'll love! ...

**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ** 'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker 'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - A...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Now with new interviews with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Nanette's Hannah Gadsby* 'This really is the "everyt...

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There...

Product Description The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexi...

Written by Peter Joyce, who is a current criminology lecturer and a leading researcher, Criminology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give yo...

About the Author Damien Lewis is a number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. For decades...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards As concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical i...

Review If you read Three Women and thought, "Where are all the non-white people?", this book has the answer ― Cosmopolitan A boundary-breaking, f...

About the Author Maxfield Sparrow is a trans masculine author and speaker on the autism spectrum. They have previously published No You Don't: Ess...

Powerful and customizable tools grounded in process-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you heal emotional pain and live a vital, valu...

Review Hillman is surely right that Chinese tech makes the world a more dangerous place than we once hoped ... The prospect that [he] sets up is t...

Product Description A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'End State is absolutely superb. If you're looking for a book that is honest about the ...

The new "Read and Respond" is back by popular demand and ready for the 21st Century. The completely new text provides teachers with everything they...

No fuss, no filler, no waffle - hundreds of photocopiables for lessons across the curriculum with great ideas at a price you'll love! Tried and tes...

Britain's Brexit voters are right. They have been shamefully neglected. But the answer is to change Britain, not to leave Europe. This book sets ou...

A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic la...

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While aut...

'Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most important debates of our ag...

The Second Opinion. The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell: this t...

Review Play, make-believe, nonsense talk, it all comes naturally to us when we're young. As one of our most beloved children's authors, poets and ...

Published in hardback as THE ART OF BETRAYAL and fully updated for the paperback edition. The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy an...

Reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare. Freud - the Key Ideas condenses all the information...

From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wea...

Review One of the most influential books of the past twenty years ― Chronicle of Higher EducationStruck the spark that would eventually light ...

‘Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation’ Namita Gokhale ‘A masterpiece’ Guardian ‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney ‘An int...

In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social be...

The way you think about yourself affects how you live your life In The Psychological Toolkit, you will learn how to use psychology on your journey...

Review "Kevin Rudd has written the year's best China book...With thoroughness and precision, Rudd has assembled a wide array of information and hi...

Product Description If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be u...

100 MENTAL MATHS STARTERS is a series of six flexible teacher's handbooks designed to provide content for the mental and oral lesson-starter sessio...

Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a new theory that...

No fuss, no filler, no waffle - this work contains hundreds of photocopiables for lessons across the curriculum with great ideas at a price you'll ...

"Bright Ideas" is crammed with lively easy-to-use ideas to brighten up your day. It is very simple to use - slot into your existing teahing. It is ...

What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment...

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayli...

Exercising the brain helps learning - so get your children's brains in shape with these mind-stretching problems. This title offers quick and easy ...