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Covert Human Intelligence Sources: The 'unlovely' Face of Police Work by Roger Billingsley
RRP: £22.50£22.38A unique insight into the hidden world of informers and related aspects of covert and undercover policing. Edited by Roger Billingsley, head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland Yard, this book is the first to look behind the scenes of... -
Ethics and Law for Social Workers by Robert Johns
RRP: £35.99£29.51How do social workers in the UK legal context act ethically? What do we understand by ethics and how does social work law relate to it? Social work practice in all countries incorporates a clear, unstinting commitment to social justice, but what is... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
Old Ways, Old Secrets: Pagan Ireland: Myth * Landscape * Tradition by Jo Kerrigan
RRP: £17.99£13.80In a land like ours, the old beliefs bring pleasure and wisdom... Exploring the legends, special places and treasured practices of old, Jo Kerrigan reveals a rich world beneath Ireland's modern layers. So many of today's Irish traditions reach back... -
Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough 9781908058638
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. . Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome... -
Second Thoughts: On Having and Being a Second Child by Lynn Berger
RRP: £10.99£7.40While every parent knows more of what to expect the next time round, the birth of a second child is no less momentous. Family relationships multiply, birth-order myths hover and sibling rivalry and parental exhaustion threaten. Yet the potential for joy... -
Growth Mindset Lessons: Every Child a Learner by Shirley Clarke
RRP: £42.00£37.81Practising teacher and mindset expert Katherine Muncaster has combined with best-selling author Shirley Clarke to produce this 'must-have' handbook for anyone looking to embed a growth mindset culture across their primary school. With practical... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: £22.99£17.94Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a... -
Mr Pim by A.A. Milne 9781788424516
RRP: £9.99£7.13Gentle chaos sets in when the absent-minded Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, bearing some innocent news... George is a fine upstanding citizen and a stickler for doing the right thing. He has a devoted wife, Olivia, and is guardian to his... -
Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down by Tom Standage
RRP: £10.99£7.77Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into the ground? Why is Australia seemingly invulnerable to... -
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament by Terry M. Wildman 9780830813599
RRP: £27.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830813599Author Terry M. WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm)... -
Daring to Hope: A Memoir of the 1970s by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: £20.00£14.05In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women's liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous... -
Tracing Lost Railways by Trevor Yorke
RRP: £8.99£6.96The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these buildings and apparatus are now ghosts of their former selves, countless clues to our railway heritage still... -
A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions by Stephen Steve-O Glover
RRP: £22.00£12.70Steve-O is best known for his wildly dangerous, foolish, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes death-defying stunts. At age 48, however, he faces his greatest challenge yet: getting older. A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of... -
The Black Queen by Jumata Emill 9780702322945
RRP: £8.99£5.82A dark and twisty murder mystery - Ace of Spades meets Riverdale 'At once incisive and chilling, The Black Queen folds hard-hitting truths into a propulsive murder mystery, delivering a story that both... -
Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World by John A. Rush 9781644117460
RRP: £14.99£9.36Explores our intertwined spiritual history with cats. We have been connected to cats for more than 30 million years. To our prehistoric ancestors cats were deadly predators of the night, and because of this ancient memory etched onto our DNA, cats... -
The Gangster's Guide to Sobriety by Richie Stephens
RRP: £20.00£12.86As seen on Good Morning America A darkly humorous and inspiring first-person account of the larger-than-life exploits and ultimate redemption of an Irish gangster-turned-actor-turned-sober-storyteller-written in collaboration with the creators of Silicon... -
Blue Above the Chimneys by Christine Marion Fraser
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning... -
The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive: Adventures with the world's oldest off-road cycling club by Mark Hudson 9780995488656
RRP: £32.00£26.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488656Author Mark HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 950g -
Internet Research Skills by Niall O Dochartaigh
RRP: £39.99£32.66Internet Research Skills is a clear, concise guide to effective online research for social science and humanities students. The first half of the book deals with publications online, devoting separate chapters to academic articles, books, official... -
American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush 9781932595895
RRP: £21.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595895Author Steven BlushFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 824g -
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record by Jonathan Scott
RRP: £11.99£8.43'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever... -
Borders, Human Itineraries, And All Our Relation by Dele Adeyemo 9781039009110
RRP: £22.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039009110Author Dele AdeyemoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Knopf CanadaPublisher Random House Canada -
Psilocybin Magic Mushroom Guide by O.T. Oss 9780932551061
RRP: £18.95£11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932551061Author O.T. OssFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Quick American a division of Quick Trading Co ,U.S.Publisher Quick American a division of... -
Magic: A Treatise on Natural Occultism Paperback by Manly P Hall 9781639231591
RRP: £6.95£5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231591Author Manly P HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction by Jurgen Habermas 9780745632193
RRP: £18.99£16.87The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer a preliminary view of what would become The Theory of Communicative... -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: £24.00£23.03For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The... -
International Perspectives on Elder Abuse by Amanda Phelan 9781138823372
RRP: £51.99£45.19Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic.Opening with an... -
The Time of Money by Lisa Adkins
RRP: £21.99£19.19Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £10.99£7.77A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The... -
The Uncontrollability of the World by Rosa 9781509543168
RRP: £15.99£14.41The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world... -
Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell by Charlie Bronson 9781784181178
RRP: £17.99£12.39Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told. In the winter of 1979, aged just... -
"prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law
RRP: £16.99£12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029527Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You are by Meg-John Barker
RRP: £16.99£13.27'Excellent' KATE BORNSTEIN'The compassionate, accessible manual the world has been waiting for' LAURIE PENNYHave you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel... -
The Seven Ages of Man: How to Live a Meaningful Life by James Innes-Smith
RRP: £16.99£5.46What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, the... -
Anthropology: A Beginner's Guide by Joy Hendry
RRP: £9.99£6.41In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding... -
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson
RRP: £20.00£18.11Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious debt-laden world of private equity, revealing how it leeches profits from everyday Americans, tanks... -
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer
RRP: £12.99£8.18The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world. 'Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.' The Sunday Times Francesca... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of...