The Book Company: New Products - Social

The land we are (A journey of belonging)

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:00:28 +0000

A deeply felt exploration of how human beings shape the land... and how it shapes us.

Every one of us, no matter where we live or what we do, has a relationship with the land. The land is in the food we eat. It is where we find meaning, comfort and space for recreation. And it is where c..

Price: $29.95

Relational Ethics for Social Work (Supporting Humane Practice in Difficult Times)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:11:35 +0000

Offering a clear, philosophically and theoretically grounded ethical framework, this book demonstrates what relational ethics can bring to everyday social work and social care – particularly in contexts where practitioners, families and communities are all under pressure, and where neoliberal poli..

Price: $34.95

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:15:28 +0000

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

Price: $64.99

Aquinas, Natural Law, and Social Ontology (Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This volume explores the connections between Thomas Aquinas’ doctrine of natural law and contemporary social thought. It aims to make explicit the basic notions of Thomas Aquinas's social ontology and to show how key concepts from sociology, economics, and political science relate to his ethics..

Price: $64.99

Africa's Fourth Cinema (A Yorùbá Ontology)

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:13:42 +0000

This book investigates the power that film has in philosophizing from an African perspective. Connecting divinity, philosophy, and film studies, the book provides a Yorùbá ontology of film, grounded in the oratures and rituals of Òrìsà, exploring metaphysical sources of the fourth cinema in mot..

Price: $89.99

The Radical Hegel (Thinking from the End)

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:38:02 +0000

Hegel shows that radical change doesn’t require looking forward to a new future but finding hope in the unseen structures of what already exists.

Hegel’s philosophy allows us to rethink emancipation in a way that challenges the picture most common..

Price: $17.95

The Domestication (AI and the Terms of Our Surrender)

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:57:31 +0000

From a leading Harvard AI safety expert, an explosive vision, drawn from emerging new research, of the terrifyingly short road to cognitive diminishment, as humans have begun to be caught in the flywheel of domestication.

This is not a book about AI. This is a book about the huma..
Price: $34.00

Freedom to Know (Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore)

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:51:30 +0000

In this book, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach studies how Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956), W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Mohammed Iqbal (1877-1938), Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) diagnose the epistemic oppression they perceive and experience, their analysis of the coloniali..
Price: $24.95

How To Build a World (A Philosophical Guide)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:18:40 +0000

What if you were marooned amidst an endless ocean, forced to construct a world capable of protecting and sustaining you?

In How to Build a World, Federico Campagna invites the reader to join him in a sustained thought experiment, reimagining the most fundamental questions o..
Price: $26.00

Artificial Violence (The Anthropocene, Ecocide and Artificial Intelligence)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:18:26 +0000

Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence. Humanity’s destruction of the Earth system, which has come..
Price: $35.00