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As the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. The paperback edition features a new postscript considering the implications of the chaotic second Trump administration.…
Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay, alternative national treasure – John Robb has lived a life in music. In this raucous memoir he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon. ‘Writes about music…
This utterly unique book is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. ‘A joy and a revelation.’ – Divina De Campo ‘I learned something fascinating on every page.’ – Christine Burns MBE ‘Mind-bogglingly compendious and queer as…
This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together established and younger British, European and north American experts…
Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T. Welsch reveals how poetry can help us to understand and come to terms with these difficult deaths. -- .
This classic study remains the definitive account of witchcraft and magic in the centuries following the witch trials. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 brought an end to witch trials in Britain. But just because the law had changed didn’t mean people had stopped…
A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence. We all know the feeling: you’re alone but it’s like there’s someone there with you – a mysterious presence lurking just out of sight. Throughout history this experience has…
An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy.Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family.Housework…
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the…
Is lobbying, particularly by 'lobbyists for hire', resulting in a distortion of the democratic process? Does business, with its highly sophisticated and well-resourced lobbying operations, have an undue influence on decisions by politicians? The book…
This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their…