Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning.
`I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living...
Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better life. For...
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's...
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next. What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's...
A young woman is put on trail. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalise seventeenth-century Rome? 'This is the ring that you gave me, and...
William E. Scheuerman's book explores when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable In 2020, Black Lives Matter activists toppled Confederate monuments and occasionally vandalized police vehicles and stations. Climate activists have damaged...
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central...
Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire – alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters – that asks: who gets to tell our stories? Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation...
Disociatívne fenomény môžeme chápať ako ochranu pri neznesiteľných emóciách a spomienkach. Vylúčia sa pritom z bežného vedomia. Čo vieme o prejavoch, dynamike a príčinách týchto porúch? Autor je významný nemecký psychiater, psychoterapeut, psychoanalytik a...