Society and culture

Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England, only to find the colony of Massachusetts Bay as dangerous as the country she left behind.

This book offers practical guidance, lesson stimuli and online resources for embedding Philosophy for Children (P4C) into secondary level subjects.

Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin’s name is still evoked every day. This book explores how one black child’s death on a dark, rainy street in a small Florida town became the match that lit a civil rights crusade.

Waldorf education, an established and growing independent school movement, continues to be shaped and inspired by Rudolf Steiner's numerous lectures on education.

Francis of Assisi came into the world in 1182. Francis' life, vision and example have been so powerful that they still speak strongly, and disconcertingly, to us in the 21st century.

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world.

Ten years on, Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits.

Families and friends come together at Christmas and, as they do, there are stories to be told. Stories about love, secrets, friendship, bravery, conflict, and compassion.