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Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries by Orian Brook
RRP: $15.47$11.06Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious... -
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
RRP: $23.21$18.11Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different... -
NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS: Collected 1636 - 1919 by Rosalind Kerven 9780953745487
RRP: $23.21$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953745487Author Rosalind KervenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Talking StonePublisher Talking StoneDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 41mm -
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children by Daniel A. Hughes 9780765702708
RRP: $70.95$61.96This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. In particular, it addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country who are unable... -
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler
RRP: $32.25$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036951Author Theresa RunstedtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 240mm *... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
RRP: $14.18$9.44LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the... -
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans by Jean Clair
RRP: $36.12$24.76In 1955, Henri Cartier-Bresson published The Europeans, a collection of photographs taken over a period of five years. His portrait of the continent documented a landscape shadowed by war, where people lived among ruins and still bore the mark of hunger... -
The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars by Andrew Collins
RRP: $25.79$16.59Cleopatra. Nefertiti. Hatshepsut. All of them are ancient Egyptian female rulers who rose above their predominantly patriarchal societies to become controllers of a great empire. Missing from this list, however, is Sobekneferu, ancient Egypt's first... -
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality by Eyal Press
RRP: $14.18$10.02A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Book of the Year 'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' Michael J. Sandel ... -
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
RRP: $18.05$14.24Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's... -
Rock 'n' Roll Unravelled: From its Roots to Mid-1970s Punk by Derek Shelmerdine 9780993589409
RRP: $32.19$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993589409Author Derek ShelmerdineFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint DCA Rock'n'Roll LtdPublisher DCA Rock'n'Roll Ltd -
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
RRP: $19.34$12.64A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to... -
Before The Pyramids by Christopher Knight
RRP: $21.92$13.40The suggestion that the Giza pyramids were laid out to represent the stars of Orion's belt, with the position of the River Nile reflecting the Milky Way, was first put forward by the renowned author Robert Bauval in his bestselling book The Orion Mystery... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: $16.76$8.32One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Penguin Classics.Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply... -
The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair by Jay Morrison 9781943686575
RRP: $19.34$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: $28.37$18.33Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil-even if the rest of us die-is "a frightening eye-opener" (Kirkus Reviews) that... -
Writing Skills for Social Work Students by Bella Ross
$23.26This book will equip social work students with the knowledge, skills and confidence to produce first-rate written assignments. Part one focuses on the foundational skills needed to produce excellent written work. Students are taken through the core... -
A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body: A Psychoanalytical Perspective by Dinora Pines
RRP: $41.27$36.55Drawing on Dinora Pines' lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women's relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women's lives. With chapters organised to follow the female... -
What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani
RRP: $21.92$19.12Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people,... -
Me and White Supremacy (YA Edition) by Layla Saad
RRP: $12.89$8.77'This book should be mandatory reading for all young people' - Pragya Agarwal'I wish this book had been around when I was a kid. . . If every child read it, the world would be transformed. This book will make the world a much better place for all of us'... -
Origins of the Modern Chinese State by Philip A. Kuhn
RRP: $24.50$21.57What is "Chinese" about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese... -
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H Diamandis
RRP: $25.80$16.59From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global... -
Millennial Love by Olivia Petter
RRP: $16.76$10.94A 2021 'BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR' - THE INDEPENDENT 'A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts.' Charly Cox 'Funny and honest.' Pandora... -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: $14.18$10.23'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide by Britt Hawthorne
RRP: $15.47$9.79A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne.Raising antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne-a... -
The Art of Coming Home by Craig Storti
RRP: $16.76$11.09Expecting that the home will be the way it was when you left? Are you instead shocked to discover that both you and home have changed? The Art of Coming Home offers the solid advice you need to reduce the stress of making the transition home... -
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption by Lee Lawrence
RRP: $11.60$4.53WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALA What would you do if the... -
Risk: A Very Short Introduction by Baruch Fischhoff
RRP: $11.60$8.32We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short... -
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime by A. Roger Ekirch
RRP: $14.18$9.55A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every... -
The Motherhood Complex: The story of our changing selves by Melissa Hogenboom
RRP: $19.34$12.64'THE MOTHERHOOD COMPLEX does for mothers in particular what INVISIBLE WOMEN did for women as a whole: exposes the myriad ways in which the system is stacked against us, while celebrating the strengths and successes we achieve in spite of it all' Leah... -
An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of Musashi to Contemporary Pop Culture by Gavin Blair
RRP: $32.24$22.42The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture! The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting the nation after a prolonged period of brutal war and... -
Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females by Kate Hodges
RRP: $24.50$16.96Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling... -
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice by Damien Sojoyner
RRP: $20.63$18.37Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from... -
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher EducationIn the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a ... -
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
RRP: $12.89$8.64Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, 2019 A New Yorker Book of the Year, 2018 A Huffington Post Book of the Year, 2018 A Buzzfeed Book of the Year, 2018 'Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie... -
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture by Amelia Abraham
RRP: $14.18$10.02This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the pros and cons, the myths and realities of life for LGBTQ+ people today.Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020 'Eloquent, empathetic and... -
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognized in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the... -
National Geographic Family Reference Atlas, 5th Edition by National Geographic
RRP: $83.85$53.73Show your kids the world with fascinating facts and more than 650 photographs, maps, and graphics covering every country--plus the poles, the oceans, and outer space--in this completely revised edition of National Geographic's beloved family-oriented... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $14.18$10.02A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
The Slave Trade in Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust by Simon Webb
RRP: $25.80$18.43Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders? Slavery was a common practice in Africa long before the...