Drawing from a life shared with her partner and their cats, Rebecca van Laer shows that cats’ supposed faults – their unreliability, laziness, and irreverence – are central to the joy of being a “cat person.”
A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.
The inspiring, life-changing new book from global sensation Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition shows how you can use your time – and your talents – to change the world
In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays,Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress in order to fight for something authentically better.
This redesigned and reissued edition of The Dignity of Difference was Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's radical proposal for reconciling hatreds and includes . Updated for 2025 with a new foreword by Simon Schama.
The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume edited by Mark Dooley.
Former restaurant critic Brian Duff examines the restaurant at a critical moment and argues that engaging and creating shared meaning with others across the table offers a path toward the renewal of waning social and democratic capacities.
Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and the place it holds in our shared cultural history.