Social sciences

Featuring the captivating and beautifully detailed art of Emily Fiegenschuh, Llewellyn’s 2019 Magical Faery Calendar will fill your year with bright and joyful faeries. Each month offers an enchanting watercolor painting that will inspire you to use the wisdom of these faeries to live a happier, more magical life. This lovely calendar includes major US and UK holidays and moon quarters.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell-and the ones we don't-shape our realities.

"Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."-Associated Press

Why do we spend so much time on our phones? What makes online messaging, social media, the next episode or level so hard to resist? In recent years, media and technology have perfected the lucrative art of gaining and holding our attention. This extraordinary feat has changed the behaviour of billions of people. In fact, by normal medical standards many of us are in the grip of addictions. Blendin

From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this capt

In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a who