Social and ethical issues

What is it about the canine personality which has singled this animal out from all the 4,236 species of non-human mammals to be man s closest companion?

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans.

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard Stunningly good The best thing I ve read for ages James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd s LifeFrancisco Cant was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012.

Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships.

He was our abusive father.

He manipulated me by making me feel special then duped me into thinking I was to blame.

Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L.

'Intensely readable.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.

When Sam Bailey-Merritt was just two years old, almost overnight he lost the ability to communicate or function.

A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.

________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history.

Now a major BBC TV series.

Where do you stand on the junior doctors' strike?

An elegant, thoughtful book .

THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT'Warm, sardonic .

Expand your understanding of the natural world with this fact-filled book as you discover how wild animals like elephants, hedgehogs, and geckos are supercharging human innovation.

Jude Angelini s tales of depravity are uncompromising, brutally honest and shocking.

'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands.

Voted the UK s Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger s and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist!

We are not OK.

The Sunday Times bestsellerOver her ten years of documentary film making, Stacey Dooley has covered a wide variety of topics, from sex trafficking in Cambodia to Yazidi women fighting back in Syria.

'Zimbardo has put his finger on a great challenge of the modern era' - The Sunday TimesMasculinity is in meltdown.

'Thrilling.

How should we treat non-human animals?

'Excellent' Robert Webb, author of How Not To Be A Boy'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen, ObserverWhy are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school?

Almost half of the developed population has an internet-based addiction.

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the woman who helps abused women to heal and fight for their rights, and Fatima, the mother of twin daughters who, once abused and abandoned by her family, now works for the Princess in one of the royal palaces.

From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.

'The most important advance of our era.

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world.

Discover Wollstonecraft s classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.

The great leader of the women s suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.

Revelatory convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight TelegraphFrom satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this gripping investigation, Andrew Blum takes us on a global journey.

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three-year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore.

On 5 June 2013, the Guardian began publishing a series of documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, revealing the extent of internet surveillance undertaken by government and intelligence agencies.

Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively.

One of the definitive novels of the twentieth century, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

A brilliant novel courageous, necessary and deeply touching Guardian douard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line.

A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago.

When Jean Sasson s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller.

Britain's leading guru looks to the future.

Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline and fearful nights.

As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy.

At the vulnerable age of 12, Lara McDonnell was picked out by a gang of men who befriended her, showered her with attention and gained her trust.

Stellen wir uns unsere Welt einmal als Dorf mit 100 Menschen vor.

The book, "e;Wet under the Rainbow"e; by Akariza Laurette Annely, explores the profound impact of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda on the younger generation.