Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
- Books
Books : a living history / by Martyn Lyons.
Lyons, Martyn.Date: 2011- Books
Science in history / J.D. Bernal.
Bernal, J. D. (John Desmond), 1901-1971.Date: 1965- Books
Books as instruments of medical history / by F.A. Tubbs.
Tubbs, F. A.Date: 1948- Books
- Online
A history of Oxford anthropology / edited by Peter Rivière.
Date: 2009- Books
- Online
Difficult folk? : a political history of social anthropology / David Mills.
Mills, David, 1969-Date: 2008