Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
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Category: society culture gender
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
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Category: society culture gender
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more
Toxic at Work: Surviving Your Psychopathic Workmates, From the Dominant Bullies to the Charming Manipulators by David Gillespie
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Category: society culture gender
Most bullies are psychopaths, but not all psychopaths are immediately recognised as bullies. Some blind us with their charm and dazzle us with their success. Some are ferociously talented and startlingly effective (at least in the short term). But they all share a common trait that makes them highly dan ...Show more
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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Category: society culture gender
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
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Category: society culture gender | Series: Picador Collection
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Vanity Fair's Women on Women by Radhika Jones (Editor); David Friend (Editor)
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Category: society culture gender
Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Ma ...Show more
The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber
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Category: society culture gender
A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking and downright hilarious theories – by the co-host of the UK’s most downloaded podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, Dan Schreiber Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Wi ...Show more
Together: A Manifesto Against The Heartless World by Ece Temelkuran
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Category: society culture gender
'If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it' Brian Eno'Clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous!' Andrew Sean Greer'If you read only one book this year, then this must be it' Sarah WinmanThere is so much to be afraid of in our current mom ...Show more
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: society culture gender
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
Let's Talk About Hard Things: Death, Sex, Money, and Other Difficult Conversations by Anna Sale
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Category: society culture gender
Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we're taught to avoid in polite conversation. But if they're so unpleasant, why do so many people tune in regularly to hear Anna Sale asking perfect strangers about them? What if, rather than declaring them off-limits, we could all benefit from discussing them more?In ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Category: society culture gender
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more