Why It Matters

Rach Cosker-Rowland gives a detailed philosophical account of gender identity that draws on a variety of trans and non-binary people's testimony and the author's experiences as a trans person, explain

A Times Book of the Year ‘This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read … Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it’ Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'If you are someone who revels in the deliciousness of oil paintings, who looks at them and wants to eat them ‘as if they were ice cream or something’, in Damien Hirst’s phrase, then Martin Gayford’s latest book will be a banquet' The Spectator 'Martin Gayford, long-serving critic and art historian, is a trusted insider and a favoured guest of the most celebrated talents in the UK and beyond. If anyone knows what makes them tick, it ought to be this latter-day Vasari ... Stimulating and sumptuously illustrated' Financial Times 'From El Greco to Picasso, Martin Gayford’s How Painting Happens offers us an encyclopedic journey through art history' Daily Telegraph ‘A remarkable painting can move the soul.So how does it come about? Martin Gayford brilliantly

FREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as

A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places, and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Silberstein delve

A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary lifeReputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in

Young readers will explore how they can become involved in the executive branch, and what it would take to become president someday.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers to the b

The U.S. Constitution is the fiber that ties all the separate parts of our government into one working whole.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers to the branches of the US gover

Peak inside the workings of the Senate and House of Representatives.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers to the branches of the US government, the constitution and more, while e

Many of the rights we consider most important to the United States -- from freedom of speech to a fair trial -- are in the Bill of Rights.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers to

Learn about how Supreme Court Justices can change the course of U.S. history.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers to the branches of the US government, the constitution and more

A former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitimacy is under attack.Why teach science? The answer to that questi

From Gold Star father and beloved Democratic National Convention speaker Khizr Khan comes a book for young people about the Constitution—what it says and why it matters for everyone. Our

People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and po

From US presidents holding Bible Studies in the Oval office, the massacre of Muslims in Buddhist Myanmar or the complex negotiation of Sunni and Shia alliances in the Middle East, religion currently d

We constantly disagree with each other on life’s biggest questions. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men and women?

‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and – despite two and a half thousand years of arguments – no one