**A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'‘Essential reading’** – The Daily Telegraph‘Not just well timed but admirably powerful’ – The Guardian‘Packed with revealing content’ – IndependentUnderdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class. And it might just change how you see Britain.

***Including a preface read by the author, Joel Budd.Underdogs*** is a compelling, myth-busting account of white working-class Britain.'Few books bring so much fresh thinking to tired arguments' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland________No large group of people in Britain is as badly misunderstood as the white working class. Its members have been caricatured as grumpy and backward-looking, as incorrigibly xenophobic...

Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes public policy responses for victims and justice, precarious populations, employment dilemmas and health and well-being.

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...