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No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, Our Bodies, Whose Property? challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies.

The unmissable account of how science can help us live better and longer - loved by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Siddhartha Mukherjee and more 'Changed my perspective on the whole living world' - Chris Van Tulleken We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being...

In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

Banaras Ka Masaan chronicles the everyday realities of the Doms, a Dalit sub-caste in Banaras designated by tradition to perform the Hindu rite of cremation. Despite their role in this crucial work, the community is condemned to the lowest order in caste hierarchy, and its members continue to be...

Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what...

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this work have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity...

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors...

Ce livre est la lettre de démission que vous avez forcément rêvé d'écrire un jour... Un « ciao » féroce, drôle et cathartique adressé à la comédie du travail moderne. Réunions absurdes, menace de remplacement par l'IA, grandes valeurs creuses, mails passifs-agressifs, management en roue libre, yoga comme sparadrap sur le burn-out : chapitre après chapitre, les raisons de tout envoyer balader s'enchaînent.

Après Servir les riches, la nouvelle enquête de terrain d'Alizée Delpierre. Comment devient-on un ou une « esclave » aujourd'hui en France ? Comment y survivre, y résister, en sortir ? Ce récit d'enquête, à la fois sensible et accessible, interroge les frontières souvent floues entre contrainte et consentement, vie et survie, logiques de profit et surexploitation.

Warum fühlen sich manche Menschen ihr ganzes Leben lang anders, ohne genau sagen zu können, warum? "Ein Zebra unter Pferden" ist ein Buch für neurodivergente Menschen – für Menschen mit ADHS, Autismus, Hochbegabung oder AuDHD und für alle, die sich oft zu viel, zu empfindlich oder einfach...

Olśniewająca i zabójczo niebezpieczna: jak wiele można poświęcić w pogoni za modowym trendem? Zieleń o jadowitym, szmaragdowym odcieniu to jedno z najbardziej niezwykłych odkryć chemicznych przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku. Pożądana przez artystów i miłośników piękna, zyskała formę, której trudno było się oprzeć. Jednak jej niewątpliwy czar krył mroczną tajemnicę – związki arsenu. Zielony pigment w różnych wariantach – od zieleni Scheelego, szwajnfurckiej po paryską, choć niezwykle atrakcyjny, niósł ze sobą śmiertelne zagrożenie.

Are you frustrated by a world that seems increasingly irrational? Do politics, dating, and modern culture feel like they are spinning out of control? In The Why Behind Things, Hunter Trace reveals the hidden evolutionary forces driving human behavior. We are running twenty-first-century software on Pleistocene hardware. Our brains were built for small nomadic bands and scarce calories, yet we are using them to navigate global networks, infinite information, and algorithms designed to hijack our deepest instincts.

From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative...

Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague...

Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Daniel Klein ponders whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly and live an authentic old age. He journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of ageing...

A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature. In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ceremony in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. The celebrants were their friends Reg and George, who had...

In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells six lucid, gripping stories that show the limits of human reason. From the woman who realised her husband harboured a terrible secret, to the man who left the cult he had been raised in since birth, and the British...

An impassioned defence of progress and innovation and an argument for social responsibility from engineer, business leader and former CEO of BP Lord John Browne. Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media...

Spite covers psychology, economics, genetics, literature and current affairs to examine why humans inflict self-harm just to get one over on someone else. Why do we secretly want our friends to fail? Lots of irresistible stories about toxic behaviour in supermarkets and over the privet hedge...

Una guía para identificar a los mentirosos que te rodean y acabar con sus engaños de una vez por todas. Los estudios sugieren que dos personas que se conocen por primera vez se dirán hasta tres mentiras durante los primeros cinco minutos de su conversación. ¿Cómo se explica un dato tan...