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Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith 9780198863885
RRP: £32.49£29.81The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender... -
The Crossing Places: First in this beloved series - start the journey here by Elly Griffiths
RRP: £15.00£9.80Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, one of the most popular crime series in Britain, with this beautiful special edition.START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKEDDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of... -
Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes by David Pevsner
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039000506Author David PevsnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House Canada -
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison 9780099440727
RRP: £15.99£11.61In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did you Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth about the... -
I Came Here Seeking a Person: A Vital Story of Grace; One Gay Man's Spiritual Journey by William D Glenn 9780809156146
RRP: £23.99£17.92This book is a contemporary account of a spiritual journey by a sober, gay, ex-Jesuit clinician and community leader writing at the complicated intersection of faith, psychology, sexuality, culture, and exponential social change. The book's themes are... -
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
RRP: £12.99£9.09Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its... -
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Professor Margaret MacMillan 9781788162579
RRP: £9.99£7.11New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 Sunday Times best books for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick for Autumn 2020 Wall Street Journal notable book of 2020 The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted... -
It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City by Caspar Melville
RRP: £15.99£11.80This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's... -
From My Sisters' Lips by Na'ima B. Robert
RRP: £10.99£7.77Covered from head to toe with only her eyes visible, the sight of a Muslim woman on a western city street rarely fails to provoke a strong reaction. Feelings of shock, horror, repulsion, pity or even fear are not uncommon. But have you ever wondered who... -
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality by Marcos González Hernando
RRP: £19.99£15.76Media attention is often focused on the very richest, the 1%, and their capacity to influence politics and shape society. But they are not the only ones who drive politics, the public conversation and much of the private sector. The focus of this book is... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
RRP: £8.99£6.02A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
Black and Blue: How Racism, Drugs and Cancer Almost Destroyed Me by Paul Canoville
RRP: £10.99£7.40Paul Canovilles story is one of extreme racist bigotry, shattering career-ending injury, a decline into drug abuse, battles against cancer, family tragedy and a determination to beat the odds. Canoville was Chelsea's first black first-team player, making... -
The Body in Nightingale Park by Nick Louth 9781804364390
RRP: £9.99£6.41Another impossible case for DCI Gillard, but this time the answers are very close to home...With a baby on the way, a pregnant wife to take care of and a new home to settle into, DCI Craig Gillard seems to have found a life of domestic bliss.But when... -
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with... -
Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount
RRP: £12.99£7.51Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows... -
Exporting the UK Policing Brand 1989-2021 by Georgina Sinclair 9780198743200
RRP: £90.00£81.58Exporting the UK Policing Brand 1989-2021 charts the history of UK international policing. Over time, UK policing has acquired a veritable brand value through the global commercialization and commodification of its policing activities in support of... -
Helping Children to Thrive Following Adverse Childhood Experiences: ‘Maya’s ACE Adventures!’ Storybook and Adult Guide by Mine Conkbayir 9781032367934
RRP: £29.99£26.64This sensitively written and beautifully illustrated storybook and guide provides children (aged 7+) and the adults who support them with the resources to understand Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and demonstrate how speaking with children can... -
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life Joshua Leifer 9780593187180
RRP: £28.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187180Author Joshua LeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process by Michael Crotty 9780761961062
RRP: £38.99£31.87Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory... -
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: £12.99£9.61Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
RRP: £7.99£5.41'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun 'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are... -
Disappearing Act by Robert Sheehan
RRP: £18.99£13.61Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland's brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, Sheehan has received widespread critical acclaim for his acting talent. In his debut... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: £20.00£15.89Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were... -
The Television Genre Book by Dr Glen Creeber 9781839022081
RRP: £31.99£28.57In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. As television continues to evolve rapidly, this new... -
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose by Matthew Arnold
RRP: £12.99£9.09'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.'Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate... -
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan 9780465028610
RRP: £13.99£9.20In Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , contrarian economist Bryan Caplan argues that we've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore, and don't know the real plusses and minuses of having kids. Parents today spend more time investing in their... -
Vogue Cocktails: Classic drinks from the golden age of cocktails by Henry McNulty
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Little Black Dress of cocktail books.From the archives of British Vogue, the classic cocktail book, for a new generation of discerning drinkers.Vogue Cocktails is a collection of recipes compiled by former British Vogue drinks aficionado and... -
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: £9.99£9.88An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of... -
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro 9780062857903
RRP: £20.00£15.72Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of... -
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of Rupaul's Drag Race (the First Ten Years) by World of Wonder
RRP: £25.00£14.66A definitive history and celebration of the ground breaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between, as told by its stars, producers and fans.Told over the first ten... -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: £28.99£25.05How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of... -
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd 9780861545308
RRP: £10.99£7.12A curious history of the strange, wonderful and sometimes terrifying worlds created by our minds. 'An utterly engrossing book.' ZOE WILLIAMS For centuries we've dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But... -
Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation and Democratisation by Thomas Marois 9781108984515
RRP: £23.99£21.51Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dynamic... -
The Oxford Companion to Cheese by Mateo Kehler
RRP: £48.99£36.13The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes -... -
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
RRP: £29.00£22.94The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric... -
Inside The Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139908Author Stanton SamenowFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Negotiation for Health and Social Service Professionals by Keith Fletcher 9781853025495
RRP: £40.00£38.40We all negotiate every day, professionally and socially, yet few of us have had any training in how to do so more effectively. For professionals in health, social care and children's services, an ability to negotiate successfully is vital. Commissioning,... -
Safeguarding Adults Together under the Care Act 2014: A multi-agency practice guide by Barbara Starns 9781913063252
RRP: £22.99£16.28The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual approach to safeguarding, professionals have sometimes felt unclear as to how they should deliver safeguarding... -
Wormwood Scrubs: The Inside Story by Angela Levin 9781500440893
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500440893Author Angela LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace