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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: £22.99£16.28Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and... -
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin 9780745664804
RRP: £19.99£17.69Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi
£12.30What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian... -
Dressed: The Philosophy of Clothes by Dr Shahidha Bari
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' - Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of LivingWe are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we... -
Food by Jennifer Clapp 9781509541775
RRP: £17.99£16.04We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world's population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy in recent decades has highlighted a... -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
RRP: £10.99£7.77A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usWhen Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started... -
Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith 9780415318310
RRP: £37.99£33.78Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be... -
How to Be a Happy Academic: A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching by Alexander Clark 9781473978805
RRP: £29.99£24.11Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and... -
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy by William von Hippel
RRP: £12.99£8.48"A rollicking tour through humanity's evolutionary past, and von Hippel is the consummate tour guide. With equal parts wisdom, humor, authority, and charm, he shows how our past explains the present and why our well-being rests on an understanding of how... -
Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish Dictionary & Phrasebook by Vera Szabo
RRP: £12.99£9.70This handy dictionary and phrasebook provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or businesspeople communicate when visiting Yiddish communities in Jerusalem, London, New York, and many other major cities around the... -
Supervision as Transformation: A Passion for Learning by Judy Ryde
RRP: £25.99£24.68Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a practical approach to supervision and show how... -
Forgotten Women Zing Tsjeng 9781914240690
RRP: £30.00£19.40'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100'Here's to no more forgotten women... -
Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell 9781785907937
RRP: £25.00£17.84The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble... -
Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory
RRP: £16.00£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134619Author Tracy Clark-FloryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work: Balancing the Needs of Children, Adults and Their Families by Fiona Mainstone
RRP: £27.99£27.23How do you keep the whole family in mind when carrying out social work assessment? How do you balance the needs of adults and children? How do you ensure that children's welfare and safety are everyone's priority when families face complex... -
Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: £16.99£15.07Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a... -
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson 9781250286772
RRP: £29.00£16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250286772Author Gretchen SissonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 188mm *... -
An Introduction to Data Analysis: Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods by Tiffany Bergin 9781446295151
RRP: £39.99£32.66Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis. Using real-world case studies as illustrations, it helps readers... -
Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil Professor Thea Pitman (Person) 9781855663480
RRP: £55.00£52.51Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'. This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the... -
Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought Ted Benton 9781350329072
RRP: £32.99£29.44Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live. But in what ways do these two distinct disciplines inform each other and arrive at these truths? This... -
Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture by Tessa Murdoch
RRP: £40.00£32.20This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. ... -
Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it by Matt Cooper 9780717196012
RRP: £18.99£17.90Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors and why are they... -
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
RRP: £16.99£11.54From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre is] ever... -
On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain by Patrick Wright
RRP: £19.99£15.02The hulk of Henry VIII's flagship is raised from the seabed in an operation that captures the mind of the nation. The leader of the Labour party wears an informal coat at the Cenotaph and provokes a national scandal. An elderly lady whose ancient house... -
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction by Dan Stone 9780198723387
RRP: £8.99£6.45Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the... -
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd Edition Matthew Stein 9781933392455
RRP: £30.00£21.00There's never been a better time to be prepared. "This book is an indispensable basic manual for the real-life issues that await us in the decades to come. . . [A] treasure trove of practical wisdom."-James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of... -
Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection by Noah Adams
RRP: £17.99£17.42This ground-breaking book foregrounds the voices of autistic trans people as they speak candidly about how their autism and gender identity intersects and the impact this has on their life.Drawing upon a wealth of interviews with transgender people on... -
The Great Work by Thomas Berry
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804995Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: £9.99£7.11Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel... -
Nutt Uncut David Nutt 9781909976856
RRP: £25.00£21.79David Nutt regularly hit the headlines as the UK's forthright Drugs Czar (Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), not least when fired by the Home Secretary in 2009 for his 'inconvenient' views. In Nutt Uncut he explains how he survived... -
Drawing on Archaeology: Bringing History to Life by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £20.00£15.04How does excavation enable the archaeologist to reconstruct the past? Victor Ambrus, who has been the Channel 4 Time Team artist since the programme's inception in 1994, has selected some of the key excavations from the many series to show how it has... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: £25.00£16.53'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert Macfarlane'Haunted and haunting... -
Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts by Grafton Tanner 9781782797593
RRP: £9.99£8.59In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our... -
The Tantrum Survival Guide: Tune In to Your Toddler's Mind (and Your Own) to Calm the Craziness and Make Family Fun Again Rebecca Schrag Hershberg 9781462529711
£13.82If you are the parent of a toddler or preschooler, chances are you know a thing or two about tantrums. While those epic meltdowns can certainly be part of "normal" toddler behavior, they are still maddening, stressful, and exhausting--for everyone... -
Pencil by Carol Beggy 9781501392245
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,... -
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel
RRP: £10.99£7.77Unmastered is groundbreaking, incisive and moving. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, it underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. How do we explore sexuality on our own terms, and find language for our... -
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective by Marcel Danesi 9781032393124
RRP: £37.99£33.38Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is... -
Working with Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare Nancy Boyd Webb 9781593852245
£42.01Until recently, there has not been a great deal of overlap in the child welfare and trauma literatures. This text bridges that divide by integrating perspectives from both fields to help practitioners understand and address the special needs of... -
Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive by Sabah Choudrey
RRP: £17.99£16.80'Essential reading' DIVA MAGAZINE'Highly accessible and important' EUGENCE ELLIS'A deeply helpful and engaging read' MEG-JOHN BARKERProviding an accessible and authoritative introduction to issues around People of Colour (POC) trans inclusion, this book... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? by Rowland Atkinson 9781526466556
RRP: £11.99£9.74The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it? In this book,...