Ali Rattansi explores the contemporary debates surrounding multiculturalism, from national identity and social cohesion to cultural fragmentation and “political correctness”.

This is the first single-authored critical engagement with the major works of Zygmunt Bauman. Where previous books on Bauman have been exegetical, here an unwavering light is shone on key themes in the sociologist's work, exposing serious weaknesses in Bauman's interpretations of the Holocaust, Western modernity, consumerism, globalisation and the nature of sociology. The book shows how Eurocentrism, the neglect of issues of gender and a lack of awareness of the racism faced by Europe's non-white ethnic minorities seriously limit Bauman's analyses of Western societies. At the same time, it points to Bauman's repeated insistence on the need for sociologists to take a moral stance in favour of the world's poor and downtrodden as being his most valuable legacy. The book will be of great interest to sociologists. Its readability will be valued by undergraduates and postgraduates and it will attract a readership well beyond the discipline.

Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not only on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, but will also explore the numerous embodiments of racism, highlighting the paradox of its survival, despite the scientific discrediting of the notion of 'race' with the latest advances in genetics.

Third-year PhD candidate Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships - but her best friend does. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating was always going to require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees - Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor. Olive is floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her with his unyielding support. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion.

Hør her'a! er en oppsiktsvekkende og frisk roman som skildrer minoritetsmiljøet på en helt original og særegen måte. Det er sommerferie og Mahmoud på 15 år ser for seg lange dager på benken utenfor blokka sammen med kompisen sin, enøyde Arif. Denne sommeren skal imidlertid bli annerledes, for familien får besøk av Onkel ji fra Pakistan og Mahmoud får i oppgave å vise onkelen rundt i Oslo. Onkel ji gjør store øyne i Norge, og så lurer han på hva det er med Ali, lillebroren til Mahmoud, som ikke oppfører seg slik gutter skal. I løpet av sommerferien skal Mahmoud bli stilt overfor store prøvelser både som bror og sønn i en pakistansk familie. Gulraiz Sharifs debutroman fikk strålende anmeldelser da den kom ut. Den vant Debutantprisen for barne- og ungdomslitteratur Kulturdepartementet 2021 og ble nominert til Brageprisen 2020, Bokhandlerprisen 2020, Uprisen 2021, Bokbloggerprisen 2021.

From the author of tiktok sensations and global bestsellers The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain<br><br> Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure.<br><br> By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere.<br><br> And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but... those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice? <br><br> <b>Praise for Ali Hazelwood and her novels:</b><br> 'Ali Hazelwood proves that science is sexy as hell, and that love can 'STEM ' from the most unlikely places. She's my newest must-buy author.' Jodi Picoult<br><br> 'I cannot get enough of her brand of brainy romance! Writing with an emotionally brilliant and witty pen, Hazelwood is an absolute romance powerhouse.' Christina Lauren, author of The Unhoneymooners<br><br> 'Gloriously nerdy and sexy, with on-point commentary about women in STEM.' Helen Hoang, author of The Heart Principle 'Proves that STEM can be sexy!' <br><br><b>RedReaders love The Love Hypothesis:</b><br> 'Did I read this in 24 hours? Yes.''Funny. Snarky. Intelligent. Real.'<br><br> 'If you're even slightly thinking about getting this book to read, just go a head and do it'<br><br> 'Ali Hazelwood has made herself an auto-buy author''It was just... perfect.'<br><br> 'A heroine you will instantly fall in love with'<br><br> The Love Hypothesis was on the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists in January 2022, Love on the Brain was also on the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller list in August 2022.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history-making.Here's where we're living. Here's time at its most contemporaneous and its most cyclic. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.Here comes Autumn.

Sommeren 2014 blir verden kjent med terrorgruppen IS. Med brutal vold okkuperer IS store områder i Midtøsten, og hevder å ha gjeninnført det islamske kalifatet. IS utgjør i dag den største terrortrusselen verden står overfor. Gruppen fortsetter å rekruttere fotsoldater, og har det siste året gjennomført flere store terrorangrep i Frankrike, Danmark, Saudi-Arabia, USA, Tunisia og Kuwait. Samtidig raser kampene i Irak og Syria, og millioner er drevet på flukt. Europa er vitne til den største flyktningkrisen i moderne tid. Hvordan skal vi forstå det som skjer? Hva er IS? Hvordan ble IS skapt og hva vil de? Journalist Mah-Rukh Ali skriver i denne boka om vår tids mest komplekse og skremmende trussel.

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«Det er først no, som tjueåring, eg forstår kor knusande 22. juli var for meg. For identiteten min. Eg var tretten år, og eg slapp ikkje unna det politiske. Eg bar det med heile meg.» Sumaya Jirde Ali kom til Bodø som barn og blei behandla som alle andre, ho kjende at ho høyrde til. I boka fortel ho om dei bekymringslause dagane i barndommen. Ho fortel om sjokket då ho fekk høyre om attentatet i Oslo 22. juli 2011, og kva det gjorde med synet hennar på eigen identitet og tilhøyrsel. Ho skildrar kjensla av skam og sjølvforakt, av å bli umenneskeleggjort, og lengselen etter å høyre til. Vi får også innblikk i kva ho gjer for å motverke hat, halde oppe motet og stå for det ho meiner.

<p><b>"Elsie Silver's writing is a true revelation!" ALI HAZELWOOD </b><br><br><b>---</b><br><br><i>Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs: the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver. Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison.</i><br><br><b>The rules were simple . . . Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble.<br>But now I'm stuck with her. There's only one bed. And, well, rules are made to be broken.</b><br><br>I'm the golden boy of professional bull riding. Or at least I was until it all blew up in my face. Now, my agent says I have to clean up my image, so I'm stuck with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as my "full-time supervision."<br><br>But I don't need a goddamn babysitter, especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth she can't stop running . . . A mouth I can't stop thinking about.<br><br>She says this means nothing.<br><br>I say this means everything.<br><br>She says there are boundaries we shouldn't cross. That my reputation can't take any more hits-and neither can her damaged heart.<br><br>I say I'm going to steal it anyway.</p>

Fra forfatteren av den bestselgende boken "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo". Romanen er laget som en dokumentar av det fiktive bandet Daisy Jones and The Six, og følger bandet - gjennom intervjuer og kommentarer - fra begynnelse til slutt. Perfekt for deg som liker Reid, som er fan av 60- og 70-talls estetikk og sterke (kvinnelige) karakterer. En TikTok page-turner!

Sara Wilby er på vei bort fra denne verden, som hun priser med så mange ord et spøkelse ennå rår over. Utenfor hotellet sitter Els og tigger småpenger. Els er hjemløs og har lite av alt. Over gata sitter en tenåringsjente og stirrer på hotellet. Hun får mer penger enn Els, men hva vil hun egentlig? Inne på et av rommene finner vi Penny, som tilsynelatende har alt. Og i resepsjonen sitter Lise, som en dag smugler Els inn i varmen.

I 1400-tallets Italia kler en ung kvinne seg som mann for å kunne utvikle malertalentet sitt. Under navnet Francesco del Cossa får hun i oppdrag å dekorere veggene i det nybygde palasset i Ferrara. Fem hundre år senere klamrer ungjenta George seg til minnet om den nylig avdøde moren. Særlig tenker hun på den siste ferien de hadde sammen: Morens fascinasjon for en lite kjent renessansekunstner førte familien til italienske Ferrara og til byens freskedekorerte palass. For George blir det avgjørende å forstå morens begeistring for en glemt maler, og tilbake i England oppsøker hun et av få overlevde verk signert denne Francesco del Cossa. «Begge deler» er en leken og bevegende roman, der ingenting er helt som det ser ut. På finurlig vis lar Ali Smith to historier fra to århundrer slynge seg inn og ut av hverandre, som i livet selv: Fortiden lever i nåtiden - i kunsten og i historien, i samfunnet og i enkeltmennesket.

Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: what would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on the neuroengeneering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept it without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings about Bee very clear in grad school - arch nemesis work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. But when her equipment starts going missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: what will Bee Köningswasser do?