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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,... -
A Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy: Prisons Unlocked Rachel Vipond (University of York) 9781447365426
RRP: £21.99£17.21Understanding prisons and the policies surrounding them is of fundamental importance to students and practitioners of criminology and related fields. This concise and accessible guide offers a compendium of key information, theories, concepts, research... -
How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment by Penny Spikins 9781781593103
RRP: £19.99£14.68Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us... -
Politics, Power and Community Development by Rosie Meade
RRP: £27.99£21.57The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and... -
Grebo!: The Loud and Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead Rich Deakin 9781909394797
RRP: £21.99£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394797Author Rich DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long investigation that opens a new window onto Cold War... -
Fighting Cancer with More than Medicine: A History of Macmillan Cancer Support by Paul N. Rossi 9780752448442
RRP: £25.00£18.94Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the UK's best-loved and largest charities. It is most widely known for its Macmillan nurses, who give care and support to people living with cancer and their families. But it does so much more, providing a wide range of... -
Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism by Alison Phipps
RRP: £8.99£6.55The Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour,... -
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal 9781478025375
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal... -
Escape From Alcatraz by J.Campbell Bruce
RRP: £13.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580086783Author J. Campbell BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Border Nation: A Story of Migration Leah Cowan 9780745341071
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows... -
The English Village: History and Traditions by Martin Wainwright
RRP: £7.99£5.60A charming guide to the story of the English village, celebrating this beloved heart of the countryside.The village remains a quintessential and much-loved treasure that is often representative of England. This rural idyll has inspired generations of... -
Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe by Daniel Trilling
RRP: £9.99£7.11Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' GuardianA mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what... -
Black Boy by Richard Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.'A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between... -
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo Bruno Latour (Institut d'etudes politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France) 9781509555062
RRP: £9.99£6.80Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism... -
My Murder by Katie Williams 9781035400775
RRP: £20.00£17.62SOMETIMES THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN SOLVE YOUR MURDER IS YOU.'Startling and original, My Murder is a gripping speculative twist on the crime novel.' - Paula Hawkins'Completely absorbing. A smart, speculative twist on domestic suspense.' - Ashley... -
A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £14.99£10.77Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first... -
Introducing Social Theory by Pip Jones 9781509505050
RRP: £16.99£15.22This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social... -
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and Our Money by Laura Clancy 9781526158758
RRP: £15.99£11.80In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.Running the Family Firm explores the... -
New Walk: The Midwife Diaries by Ellie Durant 9781780664705
RRP: £9.99£7.11Meet Chloe: passionate about midwifery and on the cusp of adulthood. As a student midwife in inner-city Leicester, Chloe finds fulfilment caring for women and families from wide-ranging backgrounds - but will her own personal challenges derail her... -
Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle by Neil Gray 9781786605757
RRP: £41.00£37.85The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. ... -
The New Rules of Coffee: A Modern Guide for Everyone by Jordan Michelman
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581625Author Jordan MichelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance against Trans Liberation by Rebecca Jane Morgan 9780745349015
RRP: £16.99£11.54For decades, conservative evangelicals and so-called gender critical feminists have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond? In Gender... -
A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations by Deborah Chambers
RRP: £17.99£16.04Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family',... -
The Story of Fenwick and its Family by Christopher Fenwick 9780857161932
RRP: £40.00£30.80This is the story of a family department store business that has delighted the shoppers of Newcastle and Bond Street, London. The Fenwick family firm was founded by John James Fenwick in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1882 and, in less than ten years, he had... -
On Rape by Germaine Greer
RRP: £12.99£9.09It's time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape - as inflicted by men on women - have got us nowhere. Rape statistics remain intractable: one woman in five will experience sexual violence. Very few rapes find their way into court... -
Leaving Home: The Art of Separating from Your Difficult Family by David P. Celani 9780231134774
RRP: £25.00£19.59Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emerge from her mother's control in order to form healthy adult relationships? Giving up family attachments... -
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Anthony Musson 9780719038020
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array... -
Titanic by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£13.65On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle. The massive 50,000 ton ship hailed as... -
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg
RRP: £26.99£22.80Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and... -
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair by Kent State University Museum
RRP: £39.95£25.83TEXTURES synthesises research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the "hair story" of peoples of African descent. A fraught topic for African-Americans and others in the Diaspora, artists, barbers, and activists address the topic of... -
Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525299Author Christine OverallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Archaeology of Death and Burial by Mike Parker Pearson
RRP: £19.99£15.42The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way... -
Tea: A Global History Helen Saberi 9781861897763
RRP: £12.99£9.09From oolong to sencha to chai, tea is one of the world's most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a uniquely adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties and ways by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the... -
Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Zakia Salime 9780816651344
RRP: £19.99£17.54There are two major women's movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari'a as the platform for building a culture of women's rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations' framework to amend shari'a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how... -
Folktales of Egypt Hasan M. El-shamy 9780226206257
RRP: £36.00£34.83In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give... -
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: £9.99£8.59New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy
RRP: £25.00£19.59The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
The Big Book of Conspiracy Theories: Over 80 of History's Greatest Cover Ups, from JFK to Area 51, the Illuminati, 9/11, and the Moon Landing by Tim Rayborn
RRP: £15.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646432615Author Tim RaybornFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cider Mill PressPublisher Cider Mill PressWeight(grams) 146g