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Solitary by Albert Woodfox
$21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780802148308Author Albert WoodfoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James
RRP: $27.08$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416552741Author Bill JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 163mm... -
Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption by Sean Nixon 9780312163334
RRP: $58.04$58.01Hard Looks is a fascinating examination of the new masculine imagery that has developed in relation to popular consumption over the last decade. The author skillfully investigates the development of this "new man" imagery and its relationship... -
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
RRP: $32.24$27.95This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers... -
Clitoral Truth, The (2nd Edition) Fish Chalker 9781609807719
RRP: $24.50$16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807719Author Fish ChalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards by Jean Sprackland
RRP: $12.89$8.41'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their... -
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method by Mike Savage 9780199587667
RRP: $68.37$54.48Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how... -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present by Peter Gatrell
RRP: $21.92$15.84WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to... -
World Film Locations: Las Vegas by Marcelline Block 9781841505886
$30.91Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers - and starry-eyed lovers - each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many... -
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerenyi
RRP: $45.15$35.78The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the... -
What Does God Think?: Transgender People and The Bible by Cheryl B Evans 9780995180741
RRP: $12.89$11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995180741Author Cheryl B EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Cheryl B. EvansPublisher Cheryl B. EvansWeight(grams) 200g -
The Idea of Australia by Julianne Schultz
RRP: $25.80$18.43***Longlisted for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award!***A searing analysis of the idea of Australia and the truth of the nation, its greatest strengths and most important challenges, and how Australia as a country can achieve its... -
Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research by Derek Layder 9780761954309
RRP: $72.24$58.40In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two. He develops clear usable strategies to encourage theory development in the practical... -
A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines by Gregory Zuckerman
RRP: $25.80$18.95'Thrilling, inspiring and informative page-turner.' Walter Isaacson, author of The Code BreakerYou know what went wrong.This is the untold story of what went right.Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China, in January... -
London in the Roman World by Dominic Perring 9780198789000
RRP: $59.33$50.58incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from... -
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous Gabriella Coleman 9781781689837
RRP: $14.18$12.05Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer theHuffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets."Half a dozen years ago,... -
The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
RRP: $24.50$14.20"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the... -
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants by Tony Parker
RRP: $21.92$14.89Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of... -
Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity by David D. Gilmore
RRP: $25.80$25.03What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in "a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey." (Publishers Weekly) In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an... -
Uniquely Japan: A Comic Book Artist Shares Her Personal Faves - Discover What Makes Japan The Coolest Place on Earth! by Abby Denson 9784805316207
RRP: $18.05$12.40Lavishly decorated manhole covers, pink polka-dotted backhoes, toilets with warmable seats, blow dryers (and other bells and whistles). It's just another day in Japan, where the futuristic and zany stands side-by-side with the rooted and the venerable,... -
The Path of the Warrior-Mystic: Being a Man in an Age of Chaos by Angel Millar
RRP: $19.34$16.19Takes you on a journey to cultivate yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually to become the archetypal Higher Man * Explores the archetypal and classical male ideal found in ancient societies around the world * Examines some of the problems facing... -
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying by Ram Dass
RRP: $21.93$13.36More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find... -
Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft 9780520392984
RRP: $30.96$24.29What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging... -
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn 9780674248311
RRP: $29.61$24.85"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China."-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng... -
The Value of the Humanities by Helen Small
RRP: $31.59$26.81The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the meaning-making practices of culture, and bring to their work a... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
RRP: $21.92$14.54*A Blackwell's Book of the Year* *A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* *A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022* *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole... -
What Death Means Now: Thinking Critically about Dying and Grieving by Tony Walter
RRP: $14.18$11.24Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the... -
Mummy’s Little Soldier: A troubled child. An absent mum. A shocking secret. by Casey Watson 9780007595143
RRP: $11.60$8.86Casey's Unit is, as ever, full of troubled, disaffected pupils, and new arrival Leo is something of a conundrum. Thirteen year old Leo isn't a bad lad - in fact, he's generally polite and helpful, but he's in danger of permanent exclusion for... -
A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad
RRP: $14.18$9.55A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULIn January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its... -
The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC - AD 116 by Stephanie Dalley 9781316501771
RRP: $27.08$22.69The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the... -
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret-Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen 9781504008730
RRP: $15.47$13.29Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck-to name a few-maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off... -
Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss
RRP: $36.11$32.70Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of ambiguous loss, guides clinicians in the task of building resilience in clients who face the trauma of loss without resolution. Boss describes a concrete therapeutic approach that is at once... -
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109792Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
RRP: $36.06$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781594204111Author Nate SilverFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin Putnam... -
The Grand Hostels: Luxury Hostels of the World by Budgettraveller by Gestalten 9783899556841
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899556841Author GestaltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Living Stream - Holy Wells in Historical Context by James Rattue
RRP: $25.79$22.72A history of holy wells from the pagan cult of water to the Christian wells of the middle ages, and including a full gazetteer. The holy well is the absolute combination of mystery and utility. There are hundreds of them still to be found, some... -
Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound by Jeremy Gilbert
RRP: $47.72$41.96Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic... -
All We Can Save : Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
RRP: $30.96$20.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237069Author Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell 9780671792251
RRP: $28.38$14.93This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.Book InformationISBN 9780671792251Author Paul FussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &...