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Your antidote to disinformation: social issues explained by experts

Written by leading social scientists, this series offers concise, up-to-date overviews of issues often oversimplified, misrepresented or misunderstood and shows you how to enact change.

"Short, sharp and compelling."

- The Observer

"If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you."

- Danny Dorling, 1971 Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

Series Editor: Professor Chris Grey, Royal Holloway, University of London