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Europe: A History by Norman Davies
RRP: £30.00£22.55Europe - and the question of whether to stay in or leave - has dominated British politics for the last three years. Yet how much do you really know about the Continent?From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret... -
History of War in Maps by Philip Parker
£28.82From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an essential part of planning and waging war. History of War in Maps gives a unique visual representation of... -
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings by Jean Manco
RRP: £12.99£8.60Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have yielded a mass of new data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of... -
In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments by Lotte Meinert 9781782388890
RRP: £23.95£19.49Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social... -
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America by Charles Murray
RRP: £18.99£12.93In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. If... -
Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke 9781914198663
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198663Author Dinah BrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Britain's War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, 1807 1867 by Anthony Sullivan 9781399000017
RRP: £14.99£14.29Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across... -
The Event Manager's Bible 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Planning and Organising a Voluntary or Public Event by D. G. Conway
RRP: £16.99£11.54The authoritative guide to planning, organising, managing and delivery events of all sizeAnyone responsible for organising a voluntary or public event will want to do it safely and well, complying with the legislation relating to different aspects of... -
The Activity Year Book: A Week by Week Guide for Use in Elderly Day and Residential Care by Anni Bowden
RRP: £32.99£32.28Engagement in meaningful activity is an important aspect of human existence, regardless of one's cognitive abilities. Even in the later stages of dementia, people can still be engaged in activities at a level that allows them to be successful. In fact in... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
RRP: £10.99£6.52'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The TimesRediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard MabeyIn the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost... -
Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods,... -
Anglo-Saxon Myths: Struggles of the Seven Kingdoms by Brice Stratford
RRP: £16.99£13.38Enchanting tales of the gods, kings, and monsters that populated the Anglo-Saxon world. An atmospheric collection of 30 folk tales exploring stories of cosmology, monsters, conflicts and courtship from the Seven Kingdoms to Middle Earth. This is an... -
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture by Ian Cobain 9781846273346
RRP: £9.99£6.70The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: £10.99£7.77**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter
RRP: £14.99£10.77This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... -
Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation by Paolo Heywood 9781501771576
RRP: £24.99£21.67Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... -
Trauma Treatment Toolbox for Teens: 144 Trauma-Informed Worksheets and Exercises to Promote Resilience, Growth & Healing by Kristina Hallett 9781683732136
RRP: £23.99£18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683732136Author Kristina HallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint PESI PublishingPublisher PESI PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 277mm *... -
The Heroine's Journey Workbook: A Map for Every Woman's Quest by Maureen Murdock
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808315Author Maureen MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek 9780199328505
RRP: £36.49£21.89This book challenges the widely held view that inmates create prison gangs to promote racism and violence. On the contrary, gangs form to create order. Most people assume that violent inmates left to themselves will descend into a chaotic anarchy, but... -
How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood by Alison Gopnik
RRP: £9.99£6.80A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. Learning begins in the first days of life. ... -
Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce
RRP: £15.99£14.28In this lively treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over 3,000 years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political... -
Medieval Costume and How to Recreate it by Dorothy Hartley 9780486429854
RRP: £10.99£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486429854Author Dorothy HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £11.99£10.15The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
£11.3524/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity... -
Understanding Research with Children and Young People by Alison Clark
RRP: £44.99£36.59How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves? This... -
The Day I Fell Off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith 9781838386047
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2022 and RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2022 and Society of Authors Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2022.Book InformationISBN... -
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £16.99£15.22The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest... -
A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change by Dawn Butler 9781911709329
RRP: £18.99£12.48'Dawn Butler is a history-making, game-changing, ceiling-smashing politician.This powerful book offers a fascinating insight into both the personal and political sides of her journey.'Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London'When I was younger my parents taught me to... -
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood
RRP: £20.00£14.29One of the Observer's Best Memoirs of the Year and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the Year.'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has... -
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.77A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive,... -
Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo by Kristi Jackson
RRP: £36.99£30.69Engaging and accessible, this book offers students a complete guide to using NVivo for qualitative data analysis. Drawing on their wealth of expertise, the authors offer detailed, practical advice that relates to students' own experience and research... -
The End of the Experiment?: From Competition to the Foundational Economy by Andrew Bowman 9780719096334
RRP: £14.99£11.12For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that... -
Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia: Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina by Geraldine Lublin 9781783169672
RRP: £24.99£18.80This literary investigation of identity construction in twentieth-century Welsh Patagonia breaks new ground by looking at the Welsh community in Chubut not as a quaint anomaly, but in its context as an integral part of Argentina. Its focus is on... -
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking by Andrew Ward
RRP: £18.99£12.75How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved... -
Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams 9781526756312
RRP: £12.99£10.95In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: £14.99£13.41Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
Red River Girl: A Journey into the Dark Heart of Canada by Joanna Jolly 9780349011004
RRP: £9.99£2.91THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to order this now' RedLonglisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for... -
Disability Studies: A Student's Guide by Colin Cameron
RRP: £36.99£30.29This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people's movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model... -
Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism by Azfar Shafi
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A tour de force' - Dalia Gebrial Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? This... -
The Big Book of Unexplained Mysteries: 38 Mind-Boggling and Unsolved Mysteries Through History by Bill O'Neill 9781648450877
£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450877Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...