Peace, justice and activism

"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein

The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights-from the 1950s to the present-based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challe

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'?

This book offers a solution-focused and strengths-based guide to becoming an effective Prison Officer.

All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future.

Andrea Needham's gripping inside account of how ten women disarmed a warplane bound for genocide in East timor - and were acquited.

This book charts the author's long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish.

In these times of troubling anti-immigrant rhetoric, this cookbook offers a culinary celebration of the many ethnic groups that contribute to a vibrant food culture. Here, 75 chefs each offer a favourite recipe that speaks of where they come from.

While in his own time Gandhi was recognised by friends and enemies alike as a major political force, not only in India but the world at large, in our own day the Mahatma has been reduced to an idealist by his supporters as much as by his detractors.

A story of peace in a land of unending war.This is a story of hope and resilience in Afghanistan, a country constantly under siege from within and without.