Society & Culture: General

Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. 

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. Aldcroft.

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities.

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city.

California, Photography & photographs, Social & cultural history, Urban communities, Human geography

An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist.

What does the F word mean to you?

A transformative new idea for healing social division from one of the world's foremost experts

Demonstrating two master thinkers at work, The Science of Meditation explains precisely how and when mind training benefits us.

From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. We often think identity is personal.

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking.