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Alfie Bown
Post-Comedy

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal cu…

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Ian Boyd
Science and Politics

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply "stick to the fact…

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Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen
Capitalism at the Limit

Capitalism is hitting the buffers. Unable to handle the various crises that its inherent logic of growth, profit, and competition has produced, it has led the world into a state of emergency - with the au…

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Pascal Bruckner,
I Suffer Therefore I Am

In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a borrowe…

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Luke Brunning, Natasha McKeever
The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships

Intimacy can be joyous, but also confusing and socially constrained. This book reveals how philosophy can deepen our understanding of how we date, fall in love, have sex, and form relationships.Brunning a…

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Luke Brunning, Natasha McKeever
The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships

Intimacy can be joyous, but also confusing and socially constrained. This book reveals how philosophy can deepen our understanding of how we date, fall in love, have sex, and form relationships.Brunning a…

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Megan Burke
Becoming a Woman

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of be…

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Megan Burke
Becoming a Woman

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of be…

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Michael Byrne
Beyond Generation Rent

As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical account of the inequality at the heart of contemporary housing systems. Bringing t…

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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
The Republic of Innovation

We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act can mea…

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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
The Republic of Innovation

We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act can mea…

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Gisela Catanzaro
Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

In the face of the global rise of authoritarian phenomena - from Trump in the US to Macri and Milei in Argentina, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Modi in India and Erdogan in Turkey and the increasing traction of Vo…

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Gisela Catanzaro
Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

In the face of the global rise of authoritarian phenomena - from Trump in the US to Macri and Milei in Argentina, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Modi in India and Erdogan in Turkey and the increasing traction of Vo…

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Aime Cesaire,
Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial ru…

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Aime Cesaire,
Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial ru…

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Luca Cesari,
The History of Pizza

Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how…

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Rebecca Charbonneau
Mixed Signals

"In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) emerged as a foundational field of…

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Rachel Hope Cleves
Lustful Appetites

"In this enticing new book, historian Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for immoral sex. From the Parisian invention of the restaurant (w…

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Ben Cobley
The Progress Trap

The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today's mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and co…

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William C Cockerham
Social Causes of Health and Disease

This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition…

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