{"title":"Books by Eric Klinenberg","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784707514","title":"Palaces for the People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can we bring people together? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This wonderful book shows us how democracies thrive' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Levitsky \u0026amp; Daniel Ziblatt, authors of \u003ci\u003eHow Democracies Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but decades of research now shows that these places can have an extraordinary effect on our personal and collective wellbeing. Why? Because wherever people cross paths and linger, wherever we gather informally, strike up a conversation and get to know one another, relationships blossom and communities emerge – and where communities are strong, people are safer and healthier, crime drops and commerce thrives, and peace, tolerance and stability take root. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough uplifting human stories and an illuminating tour through the science of social connection, \u003ci\u003ePalaces for the People\u003c\/i\u003e shows that properly designing and maintaining this ‘social infrastructure’ might be our single best strategy for a more equal and united society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205081661618,"sku":"9781784707514","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784707514_22bfb409-37e1-482c-8cc7-05f33ffc3c89.jpg?v=1786026131"},{"product_id":"9780715647356","title":"Going Solo","description":"In 1950, only 22% of adults were single. Today, more than 50% of adults are. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, most solo dwellers, compared with their married counterparts, are more likely to eat out and exercise, sign up for art and music classes, attend public events and lectures, and volunteer. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men and women of all ages and every class, Eric Klinenberg reaches some startling conclusions about the seismic impact solo living is having on our culture, business and politics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296695398773,"sku":"9780715647356","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780715647356_998bdd44-d911-4b57-a43f-9f2efdf1f1c0.jpg?v=1786016198"},{"product_id":"9781847926937","title":"2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat unites us? What divides us? What do we value? Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic. In this book he tells the deeply reported stories of seven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicentre of the crisis, and combines them with data gathered from around the world to provide unprecedented insights into what societies are made of, why they come together or fall apart, and how they shape our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture, our institutions, and ourselves'\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Desmond, author of \u003ci\u003eEvicted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A book that's at once intimate and far-ranging, that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility\u003c\/b\u003e' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307854999925,"sku":"9781847926937","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847926937_fb95c030-2485-4461-ba70-749260323e91.jpg?v=1786029166"},{"product_id":"9780226276182","title":"Heat Wave – A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago","description":"On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead. Rather than view these deaths as the inevitable consequence of natural disaster, sociologist Eric Klinenberg decided to figure out why so many people - and, specifically, so many elderly, poor, and isolated people - died, and to identify the social and political failures that together made the heat wave so deadly. Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the heat wave, this new edition of Klinenberg's groundbreaking book includes a new foreword by the author that reveals what we've learned in the years since its initial publication in 2002, and how in coming decades the effects of climate change will intensify the social and environmental pressures in urban areas around the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311625417077,"sku":"9780226276182","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226276182_236736a9-cdd3-43c9-b5ea-a1a34ae8bc19.jpg?v=1786012376"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-eric-klinenberg.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}