Sociology

Parking: We all hate it. Massive lots of land dedicated to temporary car storage, which often don't even have enough…

Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers from Georges Bataille to Donna Haraway, Pettman explores the…

A history of Latin America traces the region's development from the Spanish and Portuguese conquests to the rise of…

For fans of fun facts, this book contains more than 100 extraordinary true things about humans and all the weird stuff…

Haven’t read Capital? That’s ok. With A People’s Guide to Capitalism, there’s no need to get bogged down in the…

An ethnographic account of women who choose FGCS (female genital cosmetic surgery) in Australia and the physicians who…

A candid, scathing roundtable discussion about racial iniquities in the US, between the head of the NAACP Legal…

What does the word "privilege" mean? Does calling out privilege challenge privilege or does it reinforce divides? Do we…

Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar in 2019, prompting Melissa Berton to tell the audience “A period should end a…

Not long ago, man's best friends mostly chilled in the backyard. Now they get carried in baby strollers, snuggle in…

This detailed account of the author's experiences with the Mexican cactus known as peyote is a little-known classic of…

Humans can become so obsessed over the most trivial of things. Take, for instance, the human penis. How did this…

New York City’s Department of Sanitation, responsible for managing the city’s garbage, is the focus of…

Pipe Dreams traces a history long flushed from many of our imaginations, the miracle (and the failure) of the porcelain…

According to an old proverb, which reminds us that substances have both the potential to heal or destroy depending on…

A history of activist social movements from 1985-2010, focused on Chicago, hip hop, graffiti, and the rise of the Obama…

In this captivating book of feminist theory, author Rosi Braidotti examines contemporary feminism in the light of recent…

With this inspiring and brightly illustrated guide to power, learn about the different types of power, what it means to…

What does it mean to be cute? In this book, author Simon May provides some insightful answers to cuteness as both a…

Why do you do what you do? Is it out of habit, or something else? This book delves into how habits affect every aspect…

If you’re like most people, you wish you had the ability to make a difference, but you don’t have the credentials,…

A group of diverse teenage friends learns how computing can be both fun and empowering in this graphic novel. When a…

Author Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms and a 2019 Top 10 CNN Hero, shares how she and hundreds of women she has…

This book explores how pranks have long been part of a tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. From…

Since the early 2000s, the alt-right movement has been promoting its racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic,…