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Anthropology & Sociology

Media Manifestos

by Régis Debray
A tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation.
3 posts
Memory and Modernity

by William Rowe and Vivian Schelling
“A new, needed and definite work.”—New Statesman and Society
The Mental and the Material

by Maurice Godelier

Groundbreaking examination of the relationship between thought, economy and society.

6 posts
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.
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

10 posts
New Dark Age

by James Bridle

How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible

19 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
6 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.
31 posts
Out of the Garden

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