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Anthropology & Sociology

The Metamorphoses of Kinship

by Maurice Godelier

A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

5 posts
The Metastases of Enjoyment

by Slavoj Žižek
The status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
1 post
Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
1 post
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
5 posts

Modern Times, Ancient Hours

by Pietro Basso
Working ever more intensely, at a faster pace and for longer hours, the modern working class needs to renew its struggle.
Moving Mountains

by Anne-Christine D'Adesky

Fully updated analysis of the global fight to treat HIV and AIDS.
New Dark Age

by James Bridle

How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible

11 posts
The New Spirit of Capitalism

by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

11 posts

News For All the People

by Juan González and Joseph Torres

Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

17 posts
Night Haunts

by Sukhdev Sandhu

“Some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London.”—Daily Telegraph

5 posts
No Sweat

Edited by Andrew Ross
Shocking investigations into the sweatshops producing today’s high street clothing.
1 post
Noise Uprising

by Michael Denning
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music
5 posts

Non-Places

by Marc Augé
A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space.
1 post
Object-Choice (All you need is love...)

by Klaus Theweleit
An illuminating lexicon of love in the twentieth century.
1 post
Occupy!

Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.
30 posts
Out of the Garden

by Stephen Kline
“Alerts and sensitises one to things that should have been obvious but weren’t.”—Observer

Out of the Wreckage

by George Monbiot

What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?

8 posts
Passwords

by Jean Baudrillard
In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, Passwords offers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.
1 post
(Per)Versions of Love and Hate

by Renata Salecl
A unique and timely intervention in contemporary debates on tolerance.
1 post
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post