Social groups, communities and identities

In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life that point to a particularly self-aware and sophisticated culture of Victorian homosexuality.

From 1942 Speer was the second most powerful man in the Reich and Hitler's right-hand man.

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century.

'A powerful celebration of common humanity and compassion .

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co.

Autumn 1944.

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan.

A thoughtful collection of soul-soothing writing, O's Little Book of Calm & Comfort is the antidote to life's trying times.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year'Passionate and courageous, insightful and humane, funny and moving, this is a wonderful book' David Nicholls, author of One DayShortlisted for the Portico PrizeGraham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team.

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksJon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.

Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel .

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M.

'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city.

This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society.

November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany s assault on the Jews.

'There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty.

In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality.

'The book to recommend to patients when they face coming to terms with unavoidable childlessness.

Part manifesto, part how-to, Eat Sweat Play is a hugely inspirational call to arms for women to take back sport for themselves.

The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from fifteen years of O.

My Lovely Wife is a powerful memoir of one man's overwhelming love for his wife through mental illness and psychosis.

"e;One afternoon in January 1995, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road.

The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust.

Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.

Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right.

There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman right?

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.

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It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

How do people think about their identities?

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration.

Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics.

Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot s Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume.

Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing.

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism?

There is widespread concern today about the radicalization of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism.

In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times.

Why are women still under-represented in politics?

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

'I'm 79 years old.

Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states.

Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences.

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.

In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz.

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics.

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent Thousand-Year Reich ?

In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States.

Why did the West become so rich?

The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.