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CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran Bethencourt
RRP: £30.00£19.31From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography, comes CROWNED, a collection that completely reimagines how we see our favourite and most beloved childhood fairy and folk tales. Filled with... -
English Martial Arts by Terry Brown 9781898281627
£20.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898281627Author Terry BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anglo-Saxon BooksPublisher Anglo-Saxon BooksDimensions(mm) 246mm * 178mm * 13mm -
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World Laurence Scott 9780099591894
RRP: £8.99£6.45SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZEONE OF WIRED's NON-FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWe spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human... -
Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney 9781478025368
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and constraint as these families seek to craft likeness... -
Questions and Answers on Death and Dying: A Companion Volume to On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 9780684839370
£10.27On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This... -
On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall by Michael Denneny
RRP: £18.00£15.40Through the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in... -
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder by James E. Waller
RRP: £30.49£25.76Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate... -
The Island Princess by FLETCHER
RRP: £17.99£17.16The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of... -
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine 9780691149837
RRP: £28.00£24.96The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military... -
Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology by Barbara Bender 9781598742190
RRP: £49.99£43.90This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: £21.99£21.18Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies by George W. Noblit 9780803930230
RRP: £33.99£30.36How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing... -
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry by Jason Schreier
RRP: £14.99£11.57THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart-and the... -
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674237476
RRP: £17.95£14.60"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work." -Ta-Nehisi Coates"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."-The... -
The British Museum Little Book of Mummies by John H. Taylor 9780714150291
£3.60The mummified forms, along with beautifully painted masks and coffins, of animals, scribes, viziers, noblemen and women, priests, pharaohs and queens from the Pharaonic period, all feature in this miniature but magnificent introduction to the world of... -
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister 9781668022924
RRP: £9.99£6.41Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is "a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can... -
The Migrant's Paradox, Volume 31: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain by Suzanne M Hall
RRP: £20.99£18.37Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and streetIn this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal... -
Not Necessarily Rocket Science by Kellie Gerardi
RRP: £18.95£12.91Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of... -
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
RRP: £21.99£19.59Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction... -
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom by Stephen M. Stigler
RRP: £22.95£18.38What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics-a scientific discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science.Even the most basic idea-aggregation, exemplified by... -
Every Third Thought: On life, death and the endgame by Robert McCrum
RRP: £14.99£11.55AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his... -
Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 9781784707354
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the... -
Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi by Goekce Gunel
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Goekce Gunel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology... -
Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans against machines' GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human... -
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain 9780956186959
RRP: £25.00£17.32Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously... -
Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot by Marv Truhe 9781641607841
RRP: £29.99£18.95Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam. The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and... -
Futsal: The Story of An Indoor Football Revolution by Jamie Fahey 9781911545590
RRP: £9.99£7.11Futsal is one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet: over 60 million people play this lightning-fast and tactically intricate variation of indoor football. Despite its growing status, however, futsal's history remains largely unknown and untold... -
Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation by The Freedom Writers
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239865Author The Freedom WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson
RRP: £20.00£16.83How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the... -
Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine by Lara Veleda Vesta 9781578637393
RRP: £13.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637393Author Lara Veleda VestaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World by Munya Andrews
RRP: £19.95£12.84Around the world, people looked to the skies to tell them when to sow and harvest their crops, and when the rains would come. The 'sailing stars' have guided explorers and endless migrations of people. In Old Europe, among the Ainu of Japan and in... -
Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R Twyman
RRP: £55.95£51.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692580769Author Tracy R TwymanFormat HardbackPage Count 628Imprint Tracy R. TwymanPublisher Tracy R. TwymanWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly Jim DeRogatis 9781419740077
RRP: £20.00£9.92The essential account of R. Kelly's actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making. In November 2000, after receiving an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with "young girls," journalist Jim DeRogatis broke a... -
Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s groupie by Malcolm McLean 9781910453698
£12.21In nineties small-town Surrey, watching Top of the Pops was Malcolm's only escape from boredom and the bullies at school... until a phone call from a pop star changed his life forever. Before long, he was getting compliments from Beyonce, hanging out at... -
Gestures by Vilem Flusser
RRP: £17.99£15.90Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilem Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions-from speaking and painting to... -
A Tolerant Nation?: Revisiting Ethnic Diversity in a Devolved Wales by Charlotte Williams 9781783161881
RRP: £29.99£22.37The population of Wales is the product of successive waves of immigration. During the industrial revolution many diverse groups were attracted into Wales by the economic opportunities it offered - notably Irish people, black and minority ethnic sailors... -
The Politics of Time – Imagining African Becomings by A Mbembe
RRP: £18.99£16.87As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But... -
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: Pearson New International Edition W. Lawrence Neuman 9781292020235
RRP: £63.99£57.89Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods 7e is a highly regarded text that presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research with an emphasis on the benefits of... -
A Theory of Fields by Neil Fligstein 9780190241452
RRP: £32.49£21.83Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory,... -
An Invitation to Social Theory David Inglis (University of Helsinki) 9781509506408
RRP: £17.99£16.04Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and...