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Drunk Mom: A Memoir by Jowita Bydlowska
RRP: £16.99£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126508Author Jowita BydlowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: £17.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt 9781529376715
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound... -
Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology by Rozsika Parker
RRP: £23.99£20.94Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to... -
Coventry City Police: A Brief History by Corinne Brazier
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918881Author Corinne BrazierFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Mapseeker Digital LtdPublisher Mapseeker Digital Ltd -
Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey Through the World of Championship Darts by King Adz
RRP: £14.99£10.95Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport. Where else would you find world-class superstars, in the midst of a championship match, cultivating tomorrow's banging hangover? Or two separate... -
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract by Minouche Shafik
RRP: £9.99£7.11LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century.'Excellent... Shafik points us toward...a hopeful framework for... -
Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues by Pat Thane 9780198203827
£73.43At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed... -
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior
RRP: £10.99£7.40Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits,... -
Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State by Shira Robinson
RRP: £21.99£19.19Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they... -
The Socially Constructed Organization by David Campbell
RRP: £36.99£32.53This new work looks at the dynamics of organisations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organisation as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organisation... -
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume
RRP: £18.99£12.75For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. ... -
Sensory Modulation in Dementia Care: Assessment and Activities for Sensory-Enriched Care by Tina Champagne
RRP: £22.99£21.20Understand and assess the sensory needs of people with dementia, and learn how to implement sensory modulation-based approaches for enriched care.Drawing on the author's Sensory Modulation Program, this approach aids with self-organization and meaningful... -
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking and Slavery in Britain Today by Louise Hulland 9781913207182
RRP: £11.99£8.43136,000 people in the UK are in some form of slavery. This is big business, generating more than GBP120 billion annually for criminal organisations across the world. Stolen Lives examines trafficking and slavery in Britain, hearing from those on... -
Striking Out by Ian Wright 9780702306860
RRP: £12.99£11.78From the writing team of Ian Wright and Musa Okwonga. Inspired by the story of the superstar striker, Ian Wright. CO-WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 "A thrilling book ... an uplifting... -
Generation Alpha by Mark McCrindle 9781472281487
RRP: £16.99£11.54Everything you need to know about how to best raise, educate and guide Generation Alpha (born 2010-24) - the most materially endowed and technologically literate generation ever - to help them live their best life.Renowned social demographer Mark... -
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
RRP: £12.99£9.09Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.About the... -
Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World by Emma Gannon
RRP: £9.99£6.80OUT NOW: The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon I love Emma Gannon's wise and refreshing perspective on work, and more broadly on the challenges of building a meaningful life in an era of distraction, overwhelm and uncertainty. -... -
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy by Peter Adamson 9780521520690
RRP: £34.99£28.17Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put... -
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb Pool
RRP: £9.99£6.52A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I stepped off... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9780141393032
RRP: £7.99£5.79George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you... -
These Are Not Gentle People: A tense and pacy true-crime thriller by Andrew Harding
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: £15.99£11.90Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary ... -
Population 10 Billion by Danny Dorling 9781780334912
RRP: £12.99£8.60Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be... -
A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them by Neil Bradbury
RRP: £20.00£17.62'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs As... -
The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty 9780190050771
RRP: £25.99£21.99One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the... -
Compendium of Masonic Prayers and Graces by Rev. Neville Barker Cryer 9780853183402
£7.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853183402Author Rev. Neville Barker CryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic -
Participatory Evaluation in Youth and Community Work: Theory and Practice by Susan Cooper
RRP: £36.99£32.53Evaluation is an essential element of professional practice. However, there is little in the literature that is designed to help students involve and support young people in evaluating the impact of youth work activities. This comprehensive book explores... -
Investigative Journalism: A Survival Guide by David Leigh 9783030167516
RRP: £24.99£17.67At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative journalism has never been more important. This book explores the history and art of investigative journalism, and explains how to deal with legal bullies,... -
The Little Book of Floriography: The Secret Language of Flowers by Orange Hippo! 9781800695399
RRP: £6.99£5.00Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
£7.11In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
RRP: £16.99£11.58LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently defensive national conversation about slavery/race'... -
Safeguarding Young People: Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships by Dez Holmes
RRP: £21.99£20.32Focusing on young people and adolescence, this book explores the complexity of contemporary adolescent safeguarding. It highlights evidence-informed practice and innovation in this area at the work, serving as an accessible and invaluable resource for... -
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence by Colin Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need to understand mass murder is becoming more urgent... -
The Terror Dream: What 9/11 Revealed about America by Susan Faludi 9781843547792
RRP: £22.50£15.96Shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Non-fiction, 2008'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.' -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*In this remarkable and strikingly... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745639871
RRP: £9.99£8.95The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough... -
Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain by Robert Hewison
RRP: £14.99£12.55Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial... -
Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose 9781035004249
RRP: £16.99£12.28As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA vividly told yet reflective account of a year as a volunteer police officer, examining the nature of policing, its impact on those who are policed... -
Farewell to Growth by Serge Latouche 9780745646176
RRP: £15.99£14.41Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are...