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The Future of Children's Care: Critical Perspectives on Children's Services Reform Avery Bowser (Action for Children) 9781447368267
RRP: $21.92$17.52Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy initiatives in respect of children's services and social work education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise aspects of these services. Critically considering the... -
Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy Marlene Benquet (University of Paris Dauphine) 9780745346854
RRP: $19.34$12.64Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind... -
Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina Catherine Blackledge 9781474615839
RRP: $12.89$8.77'A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood' OBSERVER'An empowering and enlightening book' IRISH TIMESThe vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm... -
Ukraine - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Anna Shevchenko 9781857336634
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... -
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Yaba Blay 9780807073360
RRP: $34.83$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073360Author Yaba BlayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
RRP: $15.47$10.87This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. ... -
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: $24.50$14.51In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and... -
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson
RRP: $19.34$15.26A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
Foxfire 1 by Eliot Wigginton
RRP: $24.50$16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073530Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 233mm... -
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by S. Matthew Liao
RRP: $51.59$44.67As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly progress, questions about the ethics of AI, in both the near-future and the long-term, become more pressing than ever. This volume features seventeen original essays by prominent AI scientists and... -
Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity (Deluxe Edition): 2021 by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: $15.48$12.54This anthology (the first in a series) is an attempt to help us perceive our context with an exploration of the premise, coherence and scope of the 'metamodern' sensibility: a structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and imaginative... -
Archaeological Artefacts as Material Culture Linda Hurcombe 9780415320924
RRP: $49.01$43.58This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and extensively illustrated, Archaeological Artefacts and Material Culture... -
Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: $38.70$30.04Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the... -
Ethnicity and Old Age: Expanding our Imagination Sandra Torres (Uppsala University) 9781447328124
RRP: $32.24$25.01Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses on ethnicity, race and old age. It argues that in a time of increased... -
Cuba - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Mandy Macdonald
RRP: $11.60$8.82Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it is a tropical paradise that Christopher Columbus called "the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever... -
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray by James Renner
RRP: $21.93$15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113818Author James RennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Sinister ForcesaThe Nine: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda 9780984185818
RRP: $28.32$19.65The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are examined in this first volume of a three-part set, exposing new connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Based on the premise that there is a... -
Classical Archaeology Susan E. Alcock (Brown University, USA) 9781444336917
RRP: $41.22$37.78The fully revised second edition of this successful volume includes updates on the latest archaeological research in all chapters, and two new essays on Greek and Roman art. It retains its unique, paired essay format, as well as key contributions from... -
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
RRP: $29.03$17.54The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others... -
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490
RRP: $36.12$23.09'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the... -
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
RRP: $23.22$14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288195Author Peter TurchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade
RRP: $34.82$25.72Once or twice a generation, an author reveals what life is like for the truly needy and disenfranchised. Chris Arnade cuts through the jargon and abstractions to expose the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true... -
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era by William J. Mitchell
RRP: $55.47$47.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262631600Author William J. MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 216mm *... -
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling 9781786630353
RRP: $12.89$12.75Every one of us will need care at some point in life: social care, healthcare, childcare, eldercare. In the shadow of COVID-19, care has become the most urgent topic of our times. But our care systems are in crisis. Concern for the most vulnerable has... -
Social Work Intervention by Trevor Lindsay 9781446266656
RRP: $41.27$34.00Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to... -
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: $18.05$16.09Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data... -
Refugee Wales: Syrian Voices by Angham Abdullah 9781914595301
RRP: $25.80$18.43This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away... -
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982732Author Gabriel ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: $16.76$12.63'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race Remi Adekoya 9781472133458
RRP: $24.50$16.96*The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021*'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised... -
Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $36.12$28.12This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance... -
The Book of Legendary Lands Umberto Eco 9780857052964
RRP: $38.70$25.54In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
$31.10Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar... -
Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons Christen Carter 9781616898700
RRP: $24.50$18.07From the campaign trail to the rock tour, Button Power collects a people's history of American culture told through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America's foremost button experts shows how the small but powerful button reveals the... -
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman by Nicole Loraux 9780674902268
RRP: $36.06$28.57In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own... -
Sebastiao Salgado. Exodus by TASCHEN 9783836561303
RRP: $103.20$75.62It has been almost a generation since Sebastiao Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from... -
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the... -
Musicology: The Key Concepts by Kenneth Gloag 9780415679688
RRP: $36.11$31.32Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $20.63$16.65An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction by Andreas Onnerfors
RRP: $11.60$8.32Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organisations in the world. Over the course of three centuries men (and women) have organized themselves socially and voluntarily under its name. With a strong sense of liberation, moral...