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Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments by Dinara Mirtalipova
RRP: £18.99£14.44Rediscover the magic of Russian folktales in a breathtaking illustrated edition. This collection of traditional stories will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. You'll meet a mysterious girl born from the snow, a... -
Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults: Working Effectively in Adult Protection by Jacki Pritchard
RRP: £24.99£23.78Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection. The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative... -
What is Environmental History? by J. Donald Hughes 9780745688435
RRP: £16.99£15.22What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student... -
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars by Kliph Nesteroff 9781419760983
RRP: £21.99£15.20From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors,... -
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
£11.35Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's... -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: £22.49£15.24`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in... -
Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud by Rebecca Gibb 9780520385931
RRP: £25.00£18.82"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences."-New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99£11.45"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done?We witness... -
Social Pedagogy and Social Work by Lowis Charfe 9781526442062
RRP: £35.99£29.51Are you looking to understand more about social pedagogy? Wanting to see how you can incorporate these approaches into your practice? Ali Gardner and Lowis Charfe introduce you to this exciting new approach to UK social work practice that has been... -
Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
RRP: £11.99£8.00He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant... -
Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination by Christopher Hart
RRP: £35.99£29.91The ultimate guide to the 'what', 'how' and 'why' of literature reviewing, the second edition of the classic text shows how the literature review will unlock the full potential of one's research with: A thorough exploration of the literature review... -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: £12.99£9.26In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the... -
The Illusions: An astonishing story of women and talent, magic and power from the author of THE GIFTS by Liz Hyder
RRP: £14.99£10.24Inspired by real-life illusionists and early film pioneers, this astonishing, captivating story of women and talent, magic and power, sweeps you into a world where anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems . . .'Sparkling with magic'... -
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley 9780008390938
RRP: £14.99£9.70'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE ... -
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
RRP: £22.00£12.70In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause - an idle spectator since New Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle's... -
Bureaucracy and Society in Transition: Comparative Perspectives by Haldor Byrkjeflot 9781787432840
RRP: £91.99£76.75New Public Management has held a central position within public administration over the past few decades, complemented by various models promoting post-bureaucratic organization. But 'traditional' bureaucracy has not disappeared, and bureaucracy is in... -
Belgium - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Bernadett Varga 9781787023123
RRP: £9.99£7.54Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Belgium has somehow acquired the reputation of being Europe's most boring country-a reputation that is entirely undeserved. But perhaps this bland image is a smokescreen, the conventional exterior... -
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes by Kind Studio
RRP: £12.99£8.60Welcome reader. Please, make yourself comfortable: pull your chair nearer the fire, put your feet up on the dog, settle your cheeks into the toilet seat. This is The Memeing of Life, an exhaustive, exhausting, guide to the world of internet memes. ... -
Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and Europe by Gilles Kepel 9780745615585
RRP: £18.99£16.87This new book is an outstanding account of the ways in which Islam is asserting its identity in the West today.About the AuthorGilles Kepel is Director of Research at the French National Science Research Council. His previous books (two of which have... -
The Weaker Vessel by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £16.99£11.94Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
Goodbye, Guns N' Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band by Art Tavana
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415119Author Art TavanaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
The Money Power: Pawns in the Game & Empire of the City by William Guy Carr
RRP: £19.99£15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615771219Author William Guy CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 615g -
Social Constructionism by Vivien Burr
RRP: £37.99£33.38Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as... -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: £12.99£8.17The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
RRP: £22.00£14.96'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and... -
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris
RRP: £16.95£12.19"A civil but honest dialogue...As illuminating as it is fascinating."-Ayaan Hirsi AliIs Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to extremism? And what do words like jihadism and fundamentalism... -
Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design by Dr Peter Jones
RRP: £35.00£24.69Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems. Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to... -
The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, a Greater Task by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
£17.13Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for... -
The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets that Power Amazon's Success by Carmine Gallo 9781035004119
RRP: £10.99£7.93From the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, renowned communications coach Carmine Gallo reveals the leadership secrets of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - and gives you the tools to master them yourself.Jeff Bezos built Amazon. A dreamer who turned a bold... -
Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed: Re-Imagining Counterculture Today by Curtis White
RRP: £22.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198088Author Curtis WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Psychology and Crime: An Introduction to Criminological Psychology by Clive R. Hollin
RRP: £58.99£48.24Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms of pain, fear and loss is incalculable.Psychology and Crime... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
RRP: £12.99£10.01Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and... -
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Stephen Paul
RRP: £37.99£31.58The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to facilitate a strong working alliance with each of their... -
Waking Up to the Goodness of God: 40 Days Toward Healing and Wholeness by Susie Larson 9780785294719
RRP: £15.99£10.85For those who have been disappointed when the "good life" let them down or discouraged by life's struggles, the goodness of God is trustworthy, life-giving, and everlasting. Jesus wants to lead you on a healing path to redeem your story and to make you... -
The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 The Adoption... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: £19.99£13.75Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: £20.00£6.85'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
New Zealand - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Lyn McNamee 9781787023086
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. New Zealand, or Aotearoa (the "Land of the Long, White Cloud") as it is known by the Maori population, is a land of myth and reality, contrast and contradiction, rolling hills and glacial mountains,...