Emigration & Immigration

Brought to you by Penguin. The Number 1 Bestseller Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived...

日本は世界的に見れば、治安が良く、便利で、清潔で、暮らしやすい国です。 しかしその一方で、空気を読みすぎる文化、同調圧力、失敗を許さない社会、個人よりも集団を優先する価値観によって、多くの人が息苦しさを感じています。

"Som reportage är denna bok ett mästerverk." Torbjörn Elensky, FokusEn villa i Bromma som förvandlas till gangsterhotell. En pizzeria i Alvesta där ett bråk leder till blodshämnd. Ett lyxbygge i Roslagen där arbetarna får nog och slår sönder precis allt. Det finns delar av Sverige som...

Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. Since the 1990s, the aid sector has ballooned in size and is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. In this book, historian Julia F. Irwin traces the events and trends that defined modern...

'Few people have a better understanding of how endangered free speech has become in these islands than Ben Jones. This urgent cry for its restoration is a must read' Toby Young 'To call Island of Strangers "unflinching" is to understate its tenacity and courage. It is forthright - territorial -...