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README.txt: A memoir from one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers by Chelsea Manning 9781529110623
RRP: £10.99£7.77An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison for the largest leak of classified documents in... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
RRP: £19.99£17.54The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and... -
Child Protection Practice by Harry Ferguson
RRP: £32.99£31.25How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly... -
Hooligan by Patrick Holohan 9780717186280
RRP: £21.99£15.61When Paddy Holohan discovered mixed martial arts as a teenager, it was the first time his life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world, every bout reduced that maze of hardship to one simple proposition:... -
The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne Entwistle
RRP: £18.99£16.87The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about... -
Towards Ethical Policing by Dominic Wood
RRP: £21.99£17.21With debate about police ethics intensifying, this stimulating book considers afresh the fundamental role of officers and their relations with society. * It is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to ethical policing, taking a moral philosophical... -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
Effective Intercultural Evangelism: Good News in a Diverse World by W. Jay Moon
RRP: £19.99£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830831722Author W. Jay MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 215mm... -
Unruly Practices: Power, Discorse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory by Nancy Fraser 9780816617784
RRP: £21.99£19.19"A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements." -Martin Jay University of California, BerkeleyUnruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism... -
Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds by Erica Chito Childs 9780813535869
RRP: £31.00£22.81Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today's popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial couples than ever might suggest that it is. But is it the idea of racially mixed relationships that we are growing to accept or is it the... -
Nature-Based Play Therapy: A Prescriptive Approach to Integrating the Therapeutic Powers of Nature and Play by Julie Blundon Nash 9781032360584
RRP: £28.99£25.09Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model. Throughout this book, play therapists are introduced to the histories of nature and... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: £15.99£11.61Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive... -
Fight Like a Girl: An empowering self-defence guide for all women by Della O’Sullivan
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too - it may not look the same as your power, but it's there and I can claim it.' It should never be a woman's job to have to protect herself -... -
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9781783488858
RRP: £39.00£36.07How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a... -
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams by Stefanie K. Johnson
RRP: £22.00£14.58In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow-one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams which value employees' need to belong while being themselves. Humans... -
Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities by Fritz Wagner 9781138084865
RRP: £37.99£33.38What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nurture the cause of livable communities?Using a blend of theory and practice, the second edition of Community Livability... -
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
RRP: £20.00£14.21One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what and where life in the universe could be, drawing on the long tradition of... -
Under and Alone: Infiltrating the World's Most Violent Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
RRP: £10.99£7.77When veteran law-enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols, he was at the mercy of psychopaths who sought to have him prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling... -
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins 9780415964722
RRP: £19.99£17.69In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to... -
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib 9781911545224
RRP: £10.99£7.40In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others - along with original, previously unreleased essays - Hanif Abdurraqib explores the political, social, racial condition of our world today through the language of... -
Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present by Pat Thane
RRP: £25.99£23.61How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were... -
Sociology: Introductory Readings by Anthony Giddens 9781509549139
RRP: £19.99£18.09The fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought and practice today. The... -
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography. by Andy Sharp
RRP: £12.99£8.60From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players... -
The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography by Michael H. Agar
RRP: £30.99£26.32This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom by Preeti Dhillon 9780349702827
RRP: £20.00£12.05The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better... -
Brief Coaching: A Solution Focused Approach by Chris Iveson 9780415667470
RRP: £28.99£25.09Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the... -
Connecting with Young People in Trouble: Risk, Relationships and Lived Experience by Andi Brierley 9781909976894
£20.00This powerful critique of youth justice based on lived experience, theory and practice looks at the topic through a refreshing new lens, suggesting that some existing ways of dealing with children and young people may do more harm than good. After making... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: £18.00£12.96From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle... -
The Beginning of Wisdom by Meira B Epstein 9780966226645
RRP: £25.00£19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966226645Author Meira B EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arhat PublicationsPublisher Arhat PublicationsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Is Free Speech Racist? by Gavan Titley 9781509536160
RRP: £9.99£8.95The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has... -
Grettir's Saga by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: £10.99£7.77'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.' A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of... -
The Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know About Fighting by Kris Wilder 9781594391293
RRP: £19.99£13.96The Little Black Book of Violence will arm you with the knowledge and good sense to make informed choices in hazardous situations. While some yahoo spewing insults about your favorite sports team is worlds apart from a drug-crazed lunatic lunging at... -
White Feminism by Koa Beck
RRP: £9.99£6.41'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,... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Cemeteries and Graveyards: A Guide for Local and Family Historians in England and Wales by Heritage, Celia
£17.96Cemeteries, graveyards and funerals are essential topics for family and local historians and they are fascinating subjects in themselves. Celia Heritage's handbook is a wide-ranging, accessible guide to them showing how to track down your ancestors'... -
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and... -
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angeles Fitton
RRP: £18.99£13.61'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks... -
Going to Seed: From Flower Child to Radical Farmer, a Counterculture Memoir by Simon Fairlie
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in... -
Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook by Steve Hibbitt 9780192867896
RRP: £44.99£42.23Now in its 3rd edition, The Crime Investigators Handbook provides straightforward, practical information and advice for crime investigators. The book complements the learning outcomes from the Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme (ICIDP)...