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The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology that exalts homeownership above all else, on every continent we see the greed of landlords trump...

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES In the year 1324, in the burgeoning town of Kilkenny, Ireland's second biggest town, there lived a wealthy, powerful woman named Dame Alicia Kyteler. After three of her husbands died suspiciously, and with the fourth...

In Blackonomics, veteran business reporter Sonari Glinton upends conventional wisdom about the economy by exposing how racism harms it and revealing how equal access to markets is the only way to save it. Sonari Glinton has often been the only Black man in the room reporting on major news events...

Being Mortal meets Four Thousand Weeks in this exploration of the human pursuit of immortality that asks what our fear of death might have to teach us—and what we might gain by embracing it. Humans have been seeking a cure for death since time immemorial. From the quest for the fountain of...

Essays discuss the status of the contemporary African American family, examining current concerns and problems, and offering possible solutions to the troubles they...

The incredible true story of a man whose life became a BAFTA winning short film 'The Black Cop'. For fans of I Am Norwell Roberts, My Name is Why and Skint Estate this is the powerful and provocative memoir of the UK's first openly gap Black copper, and his journey from self-hatred to...

“A remarkably compassionate and uplifting book. We encourage all patients and their family and friends to read the words and thoughts in David Kessler’s book.”—Rhonda Fleming Mann, Resource Center for Women with Cancer at UCLA A nationally recognized leader in the field of end of life...

人は「本能」のせいで、「事実」を正しく判断することができない!?　この残酷な知識社会を生き抜くためには、「本能」の壁を乗り越えて「事実(ファクト)」に目を向けなければならない。年金問題の本質は？　教育無償化は正しい？　人気作家・橘玲が、複雑で残酷な現代社会のタブーに次々とメスを入れる。人々の目を曇らせる「本能」の向こう側にある「事実(ファクト)」にたどり着くための必読書！

A strategic plan for the fight against the new Jim Crow and a passionate call to get involved. From attacks on voting and civil rights to the wholesale defunding of Black institutions, Black America is facing a massive, generational attack that amounts to Jim Crow 2.0. Roland Martin argues that...

The perfect nanny is invisible. She is trusted with everything: the children, their routines, the family secrets. She is expected to notice everything and remember nothing. For more than a decade, the Unnamed Nanny worked for some of the richest families in the world. She travelled on private...

From award-winning and bestselling science journalist Angela Saini, comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics and society at large. ‘One of the world’s best science writers’ Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An...

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world’s biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse. Gold has a powerful hold over our civilization. The precious metal first attracted the Spanish conquistadors to the new world. For the Incas, only royalty could wear...

“One of the world’s best science writers.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World From the award-winning and bestselling science journalist comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics, and society at...

Breonna Taylor, Timothy Thomas, Rekia Boyd, Jonathan Sanders, Jordan Neely, and Michael Brown were casualties of war. Whether we call it a war on crime, a war on militants, or a war on drugs, law enforcement at every level has made Black neighbourhoods into killing fields, sites of resource...

A call to rethink behavioral science that empowers people to steer themselves toward good choices. From an internationally acclaimed, multiple award-winning expert on decision making and a leading philosophical voice in behavioral public policy. We all struggle to make good choices—what to eat...

Demise is inevitable. Cells commit suicide. Bodies decompose after death. Stars exhaust their fuel and swell into spectacular blazes, taking entire planets with them. From the microscopic to the cosmic, everything falls apart according to the inexorable rules of time and entropy—and maybe...

Against the social trust crisis of our era, an acclaimed urbanist shows how we can design healthy relationships back into our communities, online spaces, and nations.  Imagine you dropped your wallet and a stranger found it. Would you get it back? Your answer to this question says a lot about...

An acclaimed design thinker shows how societies have been built to push us apart—and how they can be rebuilt for human connection Imagine you dropped your wallet and a stranger found it. Would you get it back? Your answer to this question says a lot about you: It predicts your happiness, the...

An acclaimed design thinker argues that our societies have been built to push us apart—but they can be rebuilt for human connection Social trust is the single most powerful predictor of human happiness. But we are living through a crisis of trust. As people lose faith in neighbours, in...

From New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang, a provocative, hilarious, autobiographical rejection of the toxic competitiveness that has come to define the lives of American parents and children alike—and a search for a better way for all Every year, the rat race begins earlier for American...