Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the TLS website for over three years.

Takes readers on a journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport.

Presents an analysis of ten essential areas where trust in national life has broken down. Using examples from throughout the world and from history, this title offers ten solutions for a better positive future.

Looks at various aspects of buying, selling, and creating serious art.

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich - told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers - and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.

The end of the world is not nigh. The idea that we are one step from calamity is as old as history itself. Every step on the road of progress has always been countered by those who think that we should keep to a primitive lifestyle that they claim is compatible with nature.

Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

Examines the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death. This title offers an investigation into the nature of photographs.

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater's multi-award-winning food memoir 'Toast', this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are the British at Table.

Razor-sharp, witty social observations from Sandi Toksvig, selected from her brilliant Sunday Telegraph columns.

An extraordinarily insightful and thought-provoking look at how our society and culture are going to change, and change rapidly, as the price of gasoline, heating oil, and all other everyday consumer products that are derived from oil continue to escalate

Rumours are as old as human history, but with the rise of the internet it's now possible to spread stories about anyone, anywhere. In the 2008 US election many Americans believed Barack Obama was a Muslim. This book can make us think harder about the information we are given, and could help us move towards a more open-minded and fair culture.

Offers a call to arms for those who would identify themselves as English against the forces of globalisation. This book reminds us that the quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.

The website This Is Why You're Fat is an ode to the nasty food web-trend - whether seen as a commentary on North American dietary habits or a celebration of the deliciously bad. Within its first month the site pulled in over ten million eyeballs, and attracted major nation media including CNN.

Aims to represent a distinctive approach to cultural analysis, using multi-dimensional methods for addressing issues of public interest. This work stresses the impact of both neoliberalism and the formation of a 'cool capitalist culture' that has colonised everyday life around much of the globe.

Argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice.

An ethnography on the significance of Selena's afterlife for Latino identity.

Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways.