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Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, Consequences and Remedies Sam Poyser 9781447327448
RRP: $29.66$23.14Miscarriages of justice occur far more frequently than we realise and have the power to ruin people's lives. It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand them, given significant developments in recent years in law and police codes of... -
The Fatimids 2: The Rule from Egypt by Shainool Jiwa
RRP: $12.89$11.30One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909-1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet. Their... -
Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell 9781780191881
RRP: $15.47$12.16This title deals with the myths and legends of the ancient worlds, from Greece, Rome and Egypt to the Norse and Celtic lands, through Persia and India to China and the Far East. It is a comprehensive A to Z of the classic stories of gods and goddesses,... -
How Change Happens by Duncan Green 9780198825166
RRP: $13.53$9.17Society is full of would-be 'change agents'-campaigners, government officials, enlightened business people, engaged intellectuals-set on improving public services, reforming laws and regulations, guaranteeing human rights, achieving a fairer deal for... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R: A Beginner's Guide by Ioana-Elena Oana
RRP: $30.95$26.28A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software,... -
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Pop by Lesley Chow
RRP: $12.89$8.77From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of pleasure. Instead of rehashing biographies,... -
Confidence Culture by Shani Orgad 9781478017608
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to "love your body" and "believe in yourself" imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the... -
Women, resistance and revolution: A history of women and revolution in the modern world by Sheila Rowbotham
$30.03This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and... -
Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom
RRP: $32.24$27.84A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639178
$23.34For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the... -
Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Guide for Professional Editors by Renée Otmar 9781009154659
RRP: $47.72$41.47Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivities and inaccurate information are avoided. Knowing how to do so - and what to replace them with - can be tricky. Editing for... -
The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape From War to Freedom by Nujeen Mustafa
RRP: $14.18$9.35Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ... -
The Rover: Or The Banish'd Cavaliers by Aphra Behn 9781913724061
RRP: $10.31$8.63The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright (and spy) Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. Although Behn's work as a spy for Charles II came to a sudden end with a spell in debtor's prison, she was a stout... -
Argentina - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Mary Godward
RRP: $14.18$10.60The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people,... -
A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult by DK 9781465494290
RRP: $45.15$27.84Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often... -
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 9780385528207
RRP: $22.58$15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: $32.19$23.27Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't... -
Understanding School Refusal: A Handbook for Professionals in Education, Health and Social Care by Karen J. Grandison
RRP: $38.70$31.36School refusal is a crippling condition in which children experience extreme anxiety or panic attacks when faced with everyday school life and this handbook aims to explore and raise awareness of the problem of school refusal in children and young... -
Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $24.50$18.47Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first... -
First Principles: Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice by Prof Alessandra Lemma
RRP: $45.14$44.05In First Principles, Alessandra Lemma examines the centrality of applied ethics to psychoanalytic practice, The book focuses on the articulation of an accessible framework for developing and exercising an identifiable method - an ethical self-discipline... -
The Oxford History of the Holy Land by Robert G. Hoyland
RRP: $16.76$11.73Histories you can trust. The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the... -
Losing It: Dispelling the Sex Myths that Rule our Lives by Sophia Smith Galer 9780008475628
RRP: $12.89$8.57'It's the kind of book that makes you wonder, 'why wasn't this written before?' It could change lives' EVENING STANDARD 'Turns everything you've been taught about sex on its head' RUBY RARE What lies are we told when it comes to... -
My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim feminist finds herself Zeba Talkhani 9781473684058
RRP: $12.89$8.77'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, and her journey to find... -
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Tayshas Reading 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307589675Author Nujood AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA... -
The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois
RRP: $34.77$28.13The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound-strings humming over skin-that has eased souls and electrified crowds for centuries. The Banjo invites us to hear that sound afresh in a biography of one of... -
The Pink Guide to Adoption and Fostering for Lesbian and Gay Men by Nicola Hill
RRP: $19.29$12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039922Author Nicola HillFormat PaperbackImprint CoramBAAFPublisher CoramBAAF -
The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt by Satish C. Sekar
$25.74This fresh edition of Satish Sekar's classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others... -
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World Stephen Oppenheimer 9781841198941
RRP: $16.76$11.09In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that... -
Slovakia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Brendan Edwards 9781857335668
RRP: $12.89$9.73Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis 9781857421705
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their... -
Break the Internet: the power of online influencers by Olivia Yallop
RRP: $12.89$8.64In the attention economy, online influencers are an emerging class of power brokers. How can you harness their potential? Break the Internet takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such... -
Strangers In Paradise Volume One by Terry Moore
RRP: $30.95$19.74"accessible, if not downright addicting." - Shelf-Awareness The multi-award-winning series, Strangers In Paradise, gets a brand new update in four exciting volumes! Strangers in Paradise is the compelling love story of three unlikely friends who... -
Sons Of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425276976Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: $25.80$23.01Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of... -
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen 9780198284635
RRP: $61.91$61.34The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The... -
Writing Feature Articles: Print, Digital and Online by Mary Hogarth
RRP: $45.14$39.80Writing Feature Articles presents clear and engaging advice for students and young professionals on working as a freelance feature writer. This fifth edition not only covers producing content for print, but also for digital platforms and online.Mary... -
Making Sense of Qualitative Data: Complementary Research Strategies by Professor Amanda Coffey 9780803970533
RRP: $132.87$116.11After a research project has been designed and the data have been gathered, what is the best way to transform the myriad varieties of data into something useful? Authors Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson underscore the diversity of approaches at the... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: $14.18$10.02The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: $36.12$31.66Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a... -
Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life: Essays by Joann Wypijewski
RRP: $14.18$11.53What if we took sex out of the box marked 'special', either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual...