Rough - How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it (Thompson Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

Rough - How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it (Thompson Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR** Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about. A bad sexual experience. A grey area. Not rape but... A violation . These are the terms we use to describe the experiences we don't have words

Sweet Distress: How Our Love Affair with Feelings Has Fuelled the Current Mental Health Crisis (and What We Can Do about It) (Bridge Gillian)(Paperback)

Cutting its way through the media frenzy, Sweet Distress: How our love affair with feelings has fuelled the current mental health crisis (and what we can do about it) puts emotional wellbeing and resilience centre stage. Using an approach rooted in no-nonsense logic, author and psycholinguistic

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

The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma: What It Is, How It Affects Us and How to Help (De Thierry Betsy)(Paperback)

- What is collective trauma?- How can it impact children and communities?- What can we do about it? Providing accessible answers to these complex questions and more, this guide explores the key characteristics of collective trauma and provides practical advice on how to help children, young people

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It (Fullilove Mindy Thompson)(Paperback)

Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept

Anatomy of Violence - The Biological Roots of Crime (Raine Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it? This book introduces readers to new ways of looking at these age-old questions. Drawing on the scientific research, it explains what it reveals about the brains of murderers, psychopaths and serial

Discomfortable: What Is Shame and How Can We Break Its Hold? (Bond A. J.)(Paperback)

The go-to guide to understand and unpack shame: what it is, why we feel it, and how to undo the lies it tells us about ourselves. Are you ready to get Discomfortable? This is a book about shame: what it is, why we have it, and how we can break its hold on our happiness. We all know shame: it's that

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do about It (Kilpatrick William)(Paperback)

In Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do About It, Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our youngsters with the stories, models, and inspirations they need in order to lead good lives. Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It (Setter Jane)(Paperback)

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the science of the voice. The book first takes us on a

Great Divide (Stiglitz Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? This title argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. It exposes the inequality that is afflicting America and other Western countries in thrall to

All That Is Solid - How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It (Dorling Danny)(Paperback / softback)

Looks at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all going to come crashing down. In this book, this book argues that housing is the defining issue of our

New Urban Crisis - Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It (Florida Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Cities are both the engines of innovation and the seedbeds of inequality - how can we keep what's good and break free of the

Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- And What We Can Do about It (Brown Harriet)(Paperback)

Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, 'fat' has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, 'I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never

The Inequality Crisis: The Facts and What We Can Do about It (Brown Roger)(Paperback)

What are the causes of the rise in economic inequality in the West and what can be done about it? Inequality has at last taken centre stage in the political discourse, but there is very little to explain the inequality debates and to offer solutions for the UK. Written by an award-winning academic

Influence - What it really means and how to make it work for you (Nabben Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

The honest truth about influence: what it is, how it works and how you can do it better. Your ability to influence can spell the difference between success and failure in business: with it you can get things done, spark change and transform results as you gently persuade, convince and

Pink Brain, Blue Brain - How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It (Eliot Lise Ph.D.)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on years of research and the author's own work in the field of neuroplasticity, this title argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at birth become amplified over time as parents, teachers, and the culture at large unwittingly reinforce gender

Trauma Is Really Strange (Haines Steve)(Paperback)

What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body

Whitehall Effect - How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It (Seddon John)(Paperback / softback)

In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his examples come from the UK, he and his

Pure, White and Deadly - How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It (Yudkin John)(Paperback / softback)

Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, the author explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday

Sex Matters - How male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it (McGregor Dr Alyson J.)(Paperback / softback)

A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--And What We Can Do about It (Harding Kate)(Paperback)

In the era of #metoo, a clear-eyed, sharp look at rape culture, sexual assault, harassment and violence against women--and what we can do about it. A timely and brilliant book. (Jessica Valenti) Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that's a football star, beloved

Virus (Martynoga Ben)(Paperback / softback)

WHERE DID IT COME FROM, AND HOW CAN WE BEAT IT?It's 15,000 times smaller than a flea and we can kill it with a bar of soap - so how did a tiny, fragile virus change the

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

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century (Wright Erik Olin)(Paperback)

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values--equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity--can provide both the basis for a