What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Fake News? (Anstead Nick)(Paperback)

Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world? Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this book aims to make a timely

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about the Irish Border? (Hayward Katy)(Paperback)

The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst effects at the Irish border in the form of violence, controls and barriers. When the relationship has been good, the Irish border has become - to all

Do Earth: Healing Strategies for Humankind. (Omond Tamsin)(Paperback)

We know there's a climate emergency but what does that mean we should do? What does a 'better future' look like and how do we get there? Having spent over a decade on the frontlines of climate activism -- organising, campaigning, and holding the powerful to account -- Tamsin Omond discovered

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (Collins Harry)(Paperback)

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins

The Brothers Grimm Volume II: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales (Grimm Brothers)(Imitation Leather)

We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about 'Wise Folks,' 'The King's Son Who Feared Nothing,' and . . . well . . . 'Donkey Cabbages'--to name a few. Jacob and Wilhelm

What We Think About When We Think About Football (Critchley Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful

One Who Wrote Destiny (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

'A funny and moving novel about what we inherit and what we create for ourselves' Sunday

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Russell Bertrand)(Paperback)

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between

Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don´t Know - Malcolm Gladwell

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of

Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Gladwell Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Using stories of

Design Studio Vol. 2: Intelligent Control: Disruptive Technologies (Hyde Rob)(Paperback)

How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value? Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design practice. This volume identifies the game-changing trends driven by

Notebooks (Leonardo Da Vinci)(Paperback)

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and

Food Philosophy: An Introduction (Kaplan David M.)(Paperback)

Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic right. On the other hand, it is hard to

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Christian Brian)(Paperback)

What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists

The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? (Watzlawick Paul)(Paperback)

This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological 'realities' are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the 'real' realities. Contributors include Ernst von Glaserfeld (known for his cognitive studies with chimpanzees); cybeneticist Heinz von Foerster; David L

Doctors and Healers (Nathan Tobie)(Paperback)

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly

Why Worry about Future Generations? (Scheffler Samuel)(Paperback)

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence

What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology (Didau David)(Paperback / softback)

Much of what we do in classrooms is intuitive, steered by what 'feels right', but all too often intuition proves a poor, sometimes treacherous guide. Although what we know about the workings of the human brain is still pitifully little, the science of psychology can and has revealed certain

No Visible Bruises - what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us (Snyder Rachel Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Audi Robert)(Paperback)

Epistemology, or 'the theory of knowledge,' is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive introduction to the field of epistemology

Fragile - Why we feel more anxious, stressed and overwhelmed than ever, and what we can do about it (O'Malley Stella)(Paperback / softback)

This Way To Departures (Mannheim Linda)(Paperback / softback)

What happens when we leave the places we're from? What do we lose, who do we become, and what parts of our pasts are unshakeable? Mannheim's second story collection focuses on twelve people who have relocated - both voluntarily and involuntarily. Opening with the Miami-set thriller 'Noir', these

Fashion, Culture, and Identity (Davis Fred)(Paperback)

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be 'in fashion' universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis