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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Once a more limited and often remote aspect of social life ...
Erving Goffman's much-loved works are still widely cited in the field of media and communication. His work has stimulated research on news framing, mass ...
Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in ...
G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and ...
Isabella Bird travelled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at ...
If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the ghoul haunting its hallways. For half a century, he was ...
In a world marked by extreme divisions - from global conflicts to grave human rights violations - public figures struggle to find words that capture humanity's ...
'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN
'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts ...
The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches.
In Passions of the Soul, Rowan Williams opens up the great classics of Eastern ...
Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties in the face of their respective ...
Where do we find intimacy today? Are our interactions with acquaintances and strangers, particularly online, a sign of deepening, widespread intimacy? Or are our personal ...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi ...
'A fabulous story guaranteed to capture people's imagination' - Mail on Sunday 'Stunningly descriptive, compelling writing. I was moved close to tears on several occasions ...
What happens when ordinary citizens, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate crimes, both recent and cold cases?
In 2019, Netflix had a hit ...
The Catholic Church seems to be in serious crisis - disfigured by scandals, divided by theological, cultural and political differences, retreating institutionally in many places, judged ...
