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I'm Afraid Of Men by Vivek Shraya 9780735235939
RRP: £13.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2019. Nominated for OLA Evergreen Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780735235939Author Vivek ShrayaFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Re-imagining Child Protection: Towards Humane Social Work with Families Brid Featherstone (Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield.) 9781447308010
RRP: £26.99£20.84Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society? Given that the focus is overwhelmingly on those families who are multiply... -
Doing Qualitative Research Benjamin F. Crabtree 9781506302812
RRP: £76.00£70.96The long-awaited third edition of Doing Qualitative Research by Benjamin F. Crabtree and William L. Miller is out! Co-create your own inspired research stories with this reader-friendly text on qualitative methods, design, and analysis. Written for both... -
Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth by Judy Bothamley
RRP: £34.99£30.85Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions, including cardiac disease, obesity and diabetes. This new edition is completely up-to-date and offers highly practical solutions for everyday midwifery... -
Advanced Sandtray Therapy: Digging Deeper into Clinical Practice by Linda E. Homeyer
RRP: £31.99£28.33Advanced Sandtray Therapy deepens mental health professionals' abilities to understand and apply sandtray therapy. Chapters show readers how to integrate clinical theory with sand work, resulting in more focused therapeutic work. Using practical basics... -
The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
RRP: £19.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
A Practitioners' Tool for the Assessment of Adults who Sexually Abuse Children by Jeff Fowler
RRP: £29.99£29.09This book is a practical tool for the assessment of adults who sexually abuse children.It examines the impact of sexual abuse on children, enables professionals to evaluate the risk presented by adults who have sexually abused children, and provides a... -
Corruption: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
RRP: £8.99£6.45Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in... -
Taylor Swift: Icon by Katy Sprinkel 9781637274866
RRP: £13.95£10.21With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of pop music's most iconic and culture-defining voices. On the heels of her latest album, "Midnights," this... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama by Simon Banks 9781803131931
RRP: £30.00£21.35Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: £13.99£11.77Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments... -
Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear testing in Australia by Dr Elizabeth Tynan 9781526727572
RRP: £16.99£12.68British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people... -
Russian Fairy Tales by A.N. Afanas'ev
RRP: £21.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394730905Author Alexsandr Afanas'EvFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 831g -
The Economic Sociology of Development by A Schrank 9781509505265
RRP: £15.99£14.41Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so, it places various approaches to the definition, measurement, and... -
Peterhead Porridge: Tales from the Funny Side of Scotland's Most Notorious Prison by James Crosbie
RRP: £9.99£7.11James Crosbie was Britain's most wanted man in 1974. With a successful business and an enviable lifestyle, he seemed to have everything going for him - until he got bored with his life and turned to armed robbery. He ended up in Peterhead Prison, doing... -
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £20.00£14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of US National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780812993547Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House... -
Growing Up: Sex in the 1960s by Peter Doggett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at... -
Addressing Student Sexual Violence in Higher Education: A Good Practice Guide Clarissa J Humphreys (Durham University, UK) 9781838671419
RRP: £20.99£17.75Sexual violence is a well-documented issue within Higher Education and wider society. Students subjected to sexual violence suffer impacts to their physical, psychological, emotional, behavioural, and practical wellbeing, which have significant effects... -
In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms by Helga Nowotny 9781509548811
RRP: £20.00£13.75One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience... -
Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction by Victoria Barron
£11.06The alphabet mafia? The queer umbrella? A little confused by--or curious about--the terminology and identities that make up the LGBTQIA+ community?For allies and queer folks alike, this visual introduction uses bright and fabulous illustrations to... -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.11What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and... -
Antisemitism: here and now by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9781925228670
RRP: £16.99£11.58A timely analysis of the new antisemitism, by the historian who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in court. What is antisemitism? Does it come from the right or the left? Is anti-Zionism the same as antisemitism? Are there different kinds of... -
The Psychic Soviet by Ian F Svenonius 9781617757662
RRP: £15.95£10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617757662Author Ian F SvenoniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age by Marina Cantacuzino
RRP: £18.99£18.33What is forgiveness?Are some acts unforgivable?Can forgiveness take the place of revenge?Powerful real-life stories from survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence reveal the true impact of forgiveness on ordinary people worldwide. Exploring... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
RRP: £24.00£23.03Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage... -
Feminism: Ideas in Profile by Deborah Cameron
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Feminism' wrote Marie Shear in 1986, 'is the radical notion that women are people'. But, simple and powerful though this definition is, feminism is not a single, clear narrative. It doesn't begin with a specific event at a particular moment in time, it... -
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley) 9780745631257
RRP: £17.99£16.04Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same... -
Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories by Howard Marks
RRP: £12.99£12.95Since the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it and smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all... -
Chinese Business Etiquette by Scott D. Seligman 9780446673877
£15.15East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years' experience of dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to avoid costly misunderstandings, sidestep gaffes, interpret behaviour and make... -
The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus by Sullivan, Tony 9781399084024
RRP: £20.00£14.29The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur. The book analyses the theories behind the film which link this second to third... -
Multiculturalism by Tariq Modood 9780745662879
RRP: £17.99£16.04At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive... -
Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination by Camila Bassi 9781915036780
RRP: £9.99£8.17Outcast is an exploration - and explanation - of how the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry 'antisemitism!' their true intent is to cover up the real racism... -
Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World by Shelina Janmohamed
RRP: £17.99£13.87What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet 'Generation M'.From fashion... -
Honey For Dummies by Mariana Marchese
RRP: £17.99£12.54Get in on the ground level of the next artisan food obsession-honey! Just like wine, cheese, beer or coffee, honey is an artisan food with much to be discovered. Whether you're interested in tasting the various varietals, using it as a cure, or... -
Handbook of Chinese Mythology by Lihui Yang 9780195332636
RRP: £21.49£15.28Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese myth, praising her for bringing them a happy life. It is a vivid demonstration of both the ancient reach and... -
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales
RRP: £27.99£23.61A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old... -
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman 9780691248882
RRP: £20.00£15.89The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of... -
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition by B.R. Burg
RRP: £23.99£20.84Explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized character in history--the pirate Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of... -
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt
RRP: £31.49£27.58Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,... -
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference by Patricia Gherovici
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual...