Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs

"Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence...

"An electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public good. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical f...

How do we prevent AI working against us? Artificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and even which friends wish us happy birthday. But as algorithms make ever more decisions on our behalf, how do we en...

Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies.

The must read guide to navigating healthy relationships with your adult children. What makes parents happiest, according to influential new research, is good relationships with their adult children. This book is one of the first to offer much-needed guidance on developing a strong and enduring bo...

Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, but often the choice is not entirely hers to make. Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact: how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and...

"All or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald Trump's third presidential campaign. In disgrace after the January 6 attack on the Capitol and sent into exile, Trump immediately sputters back to lif...

Did you know you actually have all twelve zodiac signs in your natal chart? Not just the signs you feel drawn to but also the ones that rub you the wrong way (we all have them). As the sun travels through each sign throughout the year, it grants us access to their energies and so to different par...

Professor Dame Sue Black discusses the subject she grapples with every day, Death, bringing her unique perspective to the multitudinous circumstances in which life is lost. From the painful grieving process after losing a loved one, to violence, murder, criminal dismemberment, missing persons, wa...