Manchester University Press

A daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play...

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Red closet: The hidden history of gay...

A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR. In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Red closet recounts the compelling...

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Presence: The strange science of the unseen other

Winner of the British Psychological Society 2023 Book Award for Popular Science. A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence. We all know the feeling: youre alone but its like theres someone there...

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Wildly Different: How five women reclaimed...

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia the wild was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical...

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Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export...

Winner of the 2024 AAP PROSE Award for Economics. A hard-hitting exposé that reveals how rich countries outsource the climate crisis to poor ones. Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant success in the struggle...

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She played and sang

A fascinating study of the role that music played in Jane Austen's life. Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her novels...

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Wild for Austen

Publishing for Jane Austen's 250th birthday, this unmissable book offers an incisive and entertaining look at her life, writing, and legacy. You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to...

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Eclipsing the West

As the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end. As America...

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Folklore

A gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook explore folklore in...

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Renaissance skin

A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe. People in the Renaissance saw skin differently from how we do today. The Europe of 1500 to 1700 was a world of humours, and skin - the clothing of the body - was thought to...

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