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A World of Many Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena 9781478002956
RRP: £20.99£18.37A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds... -
Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Reader
RRP: £8.99£6.84Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia,... -
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745609874
RRP: £17.99£16.04The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have... -
Reclaiming: Essays on finding yourself one piece at a time 'Yewande offers piercing honesty... a must-read book for anyone who has been on social media.'- The Skinny Yewande Biala 9781529389517
RRP: £16.99£11.54Reclaiming is a brilliantly written and thought-provoking book. Through amazing story telling, Yewande highlights the richness in her culture that so many other black women can relate to. It was extremely gripping right from beginning. -- Oloni'This book... -
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491016
RRP: £24.99£22.07A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. American Anthropologist A pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological... -
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528649Author Shayda KafaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: £11.99£8.00What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter by Duane Chapman
RRP: £10.99£7.40'In Dog We Trust'. The autobiography of cult hero Duane 'Dog' Chapman, the world's most successful bounty hunter.Duane 'Dog' Chapman entertains and inspires millions on DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER, his top-rated TV show, but there is more to his story. From... -
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria by Adam Mayer
RRP: £22.99£17.94Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the... -
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 9780140447507
RRP: £9.99£9.43Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His "Thoughts... -
The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons by Eithne Massey
RRP: £16.99£13.09From the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland, The Turning of the Year explores the Celtic division of the year, from Samhain to Imbolc, to Bealtaine, to Lunasa, back to Samhain. It examines the significance of particular times of the... -
Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts by Ian Armit 9781908332172
RRP: £30.00£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781908332172Author Ian ArmitFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Society of... -
Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky 9781594771736
RRP: £18.99£12.27In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the film El Topo that he wrote, starred in and directed. The film and its author instantly became a counterculture icon. The New York Times said it "demands to be seen," and... -
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 by Robin Blackburn 9781804293416
RRP: £35.00£28.98The Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the... -
Beyond the Boys' Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-dominated Field by Suzanne Doyle-Morris 9780956268808
£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956268808Author Suzanne Doyle-MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Wit & Wisdom PressPublisher Wit & Wisdom PressWeight(grams) 451gDimensions(mm)... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 1: Education with Methods by Hollie Wyllie
£8.35Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
£22.50In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These developments were largely organised by htosw who... -
Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb
RRP: £16.99£12.94Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death... -
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot 9781786632883
RRP: £14.99£12.55A toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political... -
Magical Aromatherapy: The Power of Scent by Scott Cunningham
RRP: £6.99£5.00Explains the effects of fragrance, identifies useful flowers, spices, herbs, and oils, and suggests their magical properties.Book InformationISBN 9780875421292Author Scott CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S... -
The Illustrated Police News: The Shocks, Scandals and Sensations of the Week 1864-1938 by Linda Stratmann 9780712352499
RRP: £12.99£9.00The Illustrated Police News cost just a penny, providing an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20th February 1864. Promising to educate the people with fantastic features such as... -
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages by Matt Cook 9781846450020
£56.36The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so... -
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: £19.01£14.54In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world-from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... -
Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past by Stephen Mithen
RRP: £40.00£28.90As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to... -
Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition by John J. Binder 9781633882850
RRP: £18.99£17.54Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a... -
Working with Conflict 2: Skills and Strategies for Action by Simon Fisher
£30.16Working with Conflict 2 reflects the accumulated wisdom of over 3000 peacebuilding practitioners from 70 countries over the 20 years since the first Working with Conflict book was published. Its focus is on understanding and transforming conflict,... -
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution by Emmett MacFarlane
RRP: £37.00£31.14Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves... -
Purposeful Retirement: How to Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement by Hyrum W Smith
RRP: £13.99£9.66Retirement and Good Living"This book is packed with wise advice for anyone staring down the barrel of retirement." Marshall Goldsmith, business educator and New York Times bestselling author.#1 Best Seller in Aging and Volunteer WorkWelcome to your new... -
Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington 9780674244771
RRP: £18.95£15.37"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."-Wall Street Journal"Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who... -
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi 9780520258884
RRP: £25.00£19.99"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist... -
On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany by Daphne Berdahl
RRP: £19.99£17.54Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German... -
Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race by Sita Balani
RRP: £16.99£14.46If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £20.00£13.50A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the... -
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P Hall 9781604590968
£31.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604590968Author Manly P HallFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling by Jason Mittell
RRP: £20.99£18.77A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the... -
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning by George Lakey
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197531Author George LakeyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf 9780520268180
RRP: £30.00£23.69Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about... -
Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change John Launer (Health Education England, UK) 9781138714359
RRP: £35.99£31.69Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person's emerging story the central focus of health and... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: £45.00£39.15At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes...