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Hanged at Norwich by Neil Storey 9780752458656
RRP: £17.99£13.64This is the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later Victorian Norwich Prison on Knox Road. The executions included in this book range from some of the... -
Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels by Julian Rees 9780853184126
£16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853184126Author Julian ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic -
From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration by James Jupp 9780521697897
RRP: £31.00£26.34There has never been a greater need for a sober, historically informed yet critical account of immigration policy in Australia. In this revised and updated edition, James Jupp, Australia's leading specialist on migration, surveys the changes in policy... -
Migration: The Movement of Humankind from Prehistory to the Present by Robin Cohen
RRP: £20.00£13.75While recognizing that distinctions between categories are often fuzzy, Migration covers many types of migrants including explorers, slaves, pilgrims, mineworkers, labourers, exiles, refugees, sex workers, students, tourists, retirees and expatriates... -
Cyprus and its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities, and Cultures by Vaia Doudaki 9781785337246
RRP: £99.00£80.47The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated,... -
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad 9781781681589
RRP: £19.99£17.59In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off.Since the '70s, the countries of... -
Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis by Eve Ng 9783030973766
RRP: £34.99£31.79"Cancel culture" has become one of the most charged concepts in contemporary culture and politics, but mainstream critiques from both the left and the right provide only snapshots of responses to the phenomenon. Takinga media and cultural studies... -
Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781894574013
RRP: £16.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894574013Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books -
Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
£40.49Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s,... -
Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne 9780192842022
RRP: £23.49£16.61This fascinating new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 bc shows how sculptors and painters responded to the challenges they faced in the extremely formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state. The numerous symbols and images... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: £14.99£13.45Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy by Rebecca Burgess
RRP: £22.99£16.68A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textile economies There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those... -
Real Food/Fake Food: Why you don't know what you're eating and what you can do about it by Larry Olmsted
RRP: £13.99£8.02"Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet." -Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series"The world is full of delicious, lovingly... -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
RRP: £11.99£8.43An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would... -
Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller by John D. Niles 9781496841582
£34.00Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson,... -
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures by Chris Ott
RRP: £9.99£7.6733 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already,... -
How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Digital Age by John Maeda
RRP: £20.00£14.29John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Machines are already more... -
Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow
RRP: £14.99£10.95Trolls are everywhere. They lurk on the internet; they fill the pages of popular fantasy literature; they are hunted in Norwegian film. They are the homeless in California; they are comforting or threatening characters in children's books; they are... -
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it by Justin Hempson-Jones 9780008382162
RRP: £22.00£14.58One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts... -
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears 9780691168654
RRP: £25.00£19.99A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera,... -
The Abolitions of Slavery: From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848 by Marcel Dorigny 9781571814326
RRP: £27.95£22.58These papers are intended to demonstrate the complexity of the historical processes leading up to the abolition of slavery in 1793-1794, and again in 1848, given that Bonaparte had restored the former colonial regime in 1802. Those processes include the... -
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
RRP: £10.99£7.32Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, 10 of the Most Anticipated... -
Olde Yorkshire Punishments by Howard Peach 9780752446615
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating volume explores the darkest aspects of crime and punishment in Yorkshire over the centuries - a history by turns gruesome, intriguing and strange. From the stocks, joug and branding iron to the prison cell, galley - and noose - every... -
Your Life - Student Book 2 by John Foster
RRP: £17.99£17.02our Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability. Building on... -
Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Have you ever read Lolita?"So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr... -
Doing Your Master's Dissertation: From Start to Finish by Inger Furseth
RRP: £24.99£20.27'From finding a research topic through to the final write up, this clear guide takes the mystery out of graduate-level research. This book will help your project succeed' - James V. Spickard, Professor of Sociology, University of Redlands, US Just... -
The Creature Keeper by Damaris Young 9781407195056
RRP: £6.99£4.64The perfect magical read for kids who love animals and care about saving the environment! Creepy Direspire Hall sits glowering on the moors - and if you stray too close then beware the growls and scary sounds from within... -
Understanding Policing and Professional Practice by Barrie Sheldon
RRP: £22.99£20.11This book outlines the foundations for understanding modern policing. It is an essential introduction for all policing students and trainee police officers to the underpinning aspects of the profession, providing a clear understanding of how the... -
Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives. It... -
Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity by Camila Batmanghelidjh 9781843106036
RRP: £24.99£23.78*Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006*Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing... -
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, The FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
RRP: £12.99£3.51THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history.Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon, 'Whitey' Bulger, godfather... -
Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing: Authentic, Powerful, and Therapeutic Engagement with the Past by Paul Everill 9781032021669
RRP: £39.99£35.06Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing fills an important gap in academic literature, bringing together experts from archaeology/ historic environment and mental health research to provide an interdisciplinary overview of this emerging subject area.The... -
The Vocation Lectures: "Science as a Vocation"; "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber
RRP: £15.99£14.28Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to... -
In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder by Peter Maas 9781501153075
RRP: £23.99£17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153075Author Peter MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins 9781789144154
RRP: £18.00£12.96The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and... -
FinTech Women Walk the Talk: Moving the Needle for Workplace Gender Equality in Financial Services and Beyond by Nadia Edwards-Dashti
RRP: £32.99£18.19The Fintech community is steeped in change and has the potential to pave the way for equal opportunities in the workplace with all the positive actions that have taken place. There is much more that can be done but what has been achieved so far needs to... -
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Marvin 9780195063417
RRP: £31.49£20.94This book describes how two newly invented communications technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisioned, in specialized engineering trade journals as well as in more popular media, at the end of the nineteenth century... -
Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health by James Tabery 9780525658207
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658207Author James TaberyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross 9781471135262
RRP: £9.99£6.41This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior... -
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer 9780814757130
RRP: £23.99£20.84A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are...