Social Science

In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop - the process of desistance. There are now around a dozen major longitudinal and in-depth studies around the world...

In dealing with individual problems and difficulties, critical social work (CSW) is an emancipatory practice which seeks to address social injustice. In this book the author draws on almost 40 years' experience as a social worker to consider CSW in core...

One of The Times' Best Business Books of 2022A practical guide for bringing gender equality to the workplace with a new imperative: unburden women's careers from work that goes unrewarded.THE NO CLUB started when four women who were crushed by endless...

This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote?...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the...

We are living in a world full of games.More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. The future belongs to those who play games.In this ground-breaking book, visionary...

A sumptuous treasury of original fairytales from the brothers Grimm, introduced by award-winning author Cornelia Funke and with full colour illustrations by artists Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Helen Oxenbury and Emma...

The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of...

'Master biographer Jonathan Aitken is in fine form, sympathetic, insightful, scholarly and vivid, and his book, like its subject, must be rated unobtrusively spectacular.' J. I. Packer '...meticulously researched...[Aiken] writes beautifully and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093960Author H S BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld from the public. Nearly twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, four passenger aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade...

Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war. The authors compare micro-level...

Contains over 70 experiments, complete with notes and ingredients with the focus on Tryptamines. The first half concentrates on Shulgin's spiritual journey, ideas and philosophy. Foreword by Daniel M Perrine and preface by Nicholas Saunders. Edited by...

Presents medical humanities in a proactive role as a therapeutic medium to reveal, and restore, medicine’s intrinsic qualities.Draws attention to the ailing condition of contemporary biomedicine.Explores the idea of “critical” from the perspective of...

Schema Coaching is an informative guide for coaches, providing readers with a powerful and evidence-based approach to dealing with persistent personal difficulties.Schema coaching has a strong foundation in schema therapy which has been used in many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912440351Author Dr. Liam CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Howgate Publishing LimitedPublisher Howgate Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking its name from the 1973 film The Exorcist, which was...

12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique...

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on...

BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme Best Food Books of 2022'I'd happily eat this book - with a spoonful of chutney.' - Gill Meller'If you want to know more about the human stories behind real cheese, buy this book! It highlights the wonderful diversity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981484281Author Michael HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint IsletPublisher Islet

Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life - with women, drink, doctors, horses - which have become legendary. Low Life is an irresistible collection of the best of...

“A WONDERFUL READ … Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page."—CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER • “Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.”—DR. JANE GOODALLFilled with reverence and wonder for the natural world, this...

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Renowned media reporter Richard Deitsch has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected from a wide range of...

ONE OF DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKSTHE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGEWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORThe acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of 'the...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740476Author Frank R. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and...

Grounded in research and clinical experience and with plenty of case examples, this book provides a relational Transactional Analysis diagnosis and treatment strategy to give immediate relief for maternal mental illness.Maternal mental illness is common,...

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial...

A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the youngRadical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647225131Author Tom ShoneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1878gDimensions(mm) 295mm * 249mm *...

Whether you're in a lecture or the library, it's easy to get information overload. Take Great Notes helps you figure out which points matter most, and how to digest information efficiently and effectively. Identify and set good notetaking habits Take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853184829Author Paul SparksFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis MasonicWeight(grams) 148g

Published with the Association for Coaching, Diversity in Coaching explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching. The book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference...

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.Combining invaluable advice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670246Author Brian R. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER "I can see this book helping estranged parties who are equally invested in bridging a gap-it could be assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner." -New York Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154072Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm *...

'Koa Beck writes with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women's movements and feminist culture, past and present. Curious, rigorous, and ultimately generous, White Feminism is a pleasure and an education.' Rebecca Traister,...