What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

An important and timely book on race and racism, encouraging children to think for themselves about the issues

What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions (Boakye Jeffrey)(Paperback / softback)

A highly topical look at the subject of masculinity, encouraging readers to think for themselves about the issues

What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions (Boakye Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

A highly topical look at the subject of masculinity, encouraging readers to think for themselves about the issues

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

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

What is Consent? Why is it Important? And Other Big Questions (Necati Yas)(Paperback / softback)

A detailed look at the concept of consent, how it works, and why it

An Alarm to the Unconverted: Why You Need Jesus (Alleine Joseph)(Paperback)

What is conversion? What does it look like? And why does it matter? Joseph Alleine addresses these questions and more in this book, pleading with the unconverted to turn to Christ. Contrasting the life of the believer with the eternity facing those who are not in Christ this passionate appeal

Who are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave their Homes? And Other Big Questions (Rosen Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A highly topical look at the current refugee crisis, encouraging readers to think for themselves about the issues

Economics: The User's Guide - A Pelican Introduction (Chang Ha-Joon)(Paperback / softback)

What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? This book teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the

On Humanism (Norman Richard)(Paperback)

What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century's crimes against humanity spelled the end for humanism?On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical defence of

How Big Is Infinity?: The 20 Big Maths Questions (Crilly Tony)(Paperback)

What are the strangest numbers? Where do numbers come from? Can maths guarantee riches? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly's wings really cause a hurricane? Can maths predict the future? In How Big is Infinity?, acclaimed writer Tony Crilly distills the wisdom of some of the

What is Mental Health? Where does it come from? And Other Big Questions (Maddox Lucy)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring and explaining the range of mental health, from wellbeing through to mental health problems, in a non-stigmatising, accessible and accurate

Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies (Caldwell Melissa)(Paperback)

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative, cutting-edge scholarship and debates, this reader provides an excellent introduction to the rapidly growing discipline of food studies. Covering a wide range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, it

Do Igloos Have Loos? (Symons Mitchell)(Paperback / softback)

Ever wondered . . . Why are slugs so slimy?Why does your skin go wrinkly in the bath?How clever is your right foot?What is the best thing to do if you fall into quicksand?And do igloos have loos?Mitchell Symons knows the answers . . . and now you will

Why is Snot Green? - And Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum (Murphy Glenn)(Paperback / softback)

A fun, doodle-filled reworking of Why is Snot Green? by the acclaimed Glenn

Pretentiousness: Why it Matters (Fox Dan)(Paperback / softback)

What is pretentiousness? Why are we afraid of it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? Drawing on the author's own experiences growing up and working at the more radical edges of the arts, this book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and

On Freud's the Question of Lay Analysis (Sandler Paulo Cesar)(Paperback)

The questions of what psychoanalysis is, and does, and who can and should practice it, remains key within the modern profession. Has the invaluable material packed into Freud's The Question of Lay Analysis (1926) been underestimated by contemporary psychoanalysis? This book explores how the issues

What Is Strategy and Does It Matter? (Whittington Richard (Reader in Strategy at the Said Business School University of Oxford))(Paperback / softback)

Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter (Tudge Colin)(Paperback / softback)

What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. This title explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on

That Other Voice: In Search of a God Who Speaks (Turner Graham)(Paperback)

That Other Voice is perfect reading for anybody interested in mindfulness and the big questions of life - a fascinating journal of one person's search for an answer to the ultimate spiritual mystery: whether a higher power can communicate with us directly. Graham Turner has journeyed across the

A Philosopher Looks at Work (Geuss Raymond)(Paperback)

Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These and other questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social

Comparing Notes - How We Make Sense of Music (Ockelford Adam)(Paperback / softback)

We are all instinctively musical. Why? And how does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? Adam Ockelford has the

Just Food: Philosophy, Justice and Food (Dieterle Jill M.)(Paperback)

Who has access, and who is denied access, to food, and why? What are the consequences of food insecurity? What would it take for the food system to be just? Just Food: Philosophy, Justice and Food presents thirteen new philosophical essays that explore the causes and consequences of the inequities

Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter (Brown Amy)(Paperback / softback)

A startlingly large number of women who want to breastfeed have to stop before they are ready, leaving them feeling a range of negative emotions, including grief, anger, guilt, shame and frustration, and often blaming themselves. But in a society that places little value on breastfeeding and

Race - Vintage Minis (Morrison Toni)(Paperback / softback)

Is who we are really only skin deep? In this book, the author unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. It also includes the story of a young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls that spirals into inferiority and