Richard Sennett ; Jonathan Cobb

Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? This

Mensen zijn sociale wezens en elke maatschappij is op samenwerking gebaseerd. Maar in onze neoliberale samenleving komen we nauwelijks in aanraking me

How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city

In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America-an internal confli

The co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of o

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pac

De internationale bestseller over Rudolf Vrba, nu als midprice April 1944. In het diepste geheim bereidt de 19-jarige Rudolf Vrba voor wat nog nieman

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp s

Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonath

A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."-Studs Terkel, author of Working

You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is s

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology labo

A collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. It includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom,

A RENOWNED BRAIN EXPERT SHARES THE SIMPLE TRICKS THAT WILL FUTURE-PROOF YOUR MEMORYMemory gets worse with age - right? A fact of life. But what if we

This is a revised version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It is a clear introduction to the Iliad and the Odysse

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capi

Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring app