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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon
RRP: $30.95$26.84African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been... -
Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age by Steven Kepnes 9780814746752
RRP: $32.24$27.95Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are... -
Humankind: How to Change the World One Small Act at a Time by Brad Aronson 9781928055631
RRP: $15.47$14.44This Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller is filled with true stories about how one small deed can make a world of difference. "Elegant and wise" (Deepak Chopra). "The most uplifting and life-affirming book in years" (Forbes). "This might... -
The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning
RRP: $23.21$15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555996Author Paddy ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Kim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere
RRP: $16.76$9.52Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally... -
The Dark Side of Japan: Ancient Black Magic, Folklore, Ritual Antony Cummins, MA 9781445663029
RRP: $20.63$14.00The Dark Side of Japan is a collection of folk tales, black magic, protection spells, monsters and other dark interpretations of life and death from Japanese folklore. Much of the information comes from ancient documents, translated into English here for... -
A James Connolly Reader by Shaun Harkin
RRP: $21.92$15.57Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly... -
Iran: A Beginner's Guide Homa Katouzian 9781780742724
RRP: $12.89$8.27Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been locked in conflict with the United States and Europe. Personified in the West by a series of bogeymen from Ayatollah Khomeini to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, this villainous mask obscures a far more complex identity,... -
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim 9780821411469
RRP: $36.11$31.14Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the... -
Changing Borders: A Kingdom Unlocked by Tony Smith
$15.62Tony Smith CBE spent his career managing our UK border controls, from junior immigration officer to Head of the UK Border Force. He spent more than four decades in the front line of the conflict between those who argue for open borders and free movement... -
The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom
RRP: $16.76$14.78An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex... -
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
RRP: $41.28$23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793657Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics Noel Castree (University of Manchester) 9780631215684
RRP: $48.96$43.03This groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the... -
Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop and Rap by Ann Powers 9780859652339
RRP: $16.76$11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652339Author Ann PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Techniques of Archaeological Excavation by Philip Barker 9780415151528
RRP: $61.91$54.45Immediately hailed as the standard work and one of the most widely used archaeological field manuals, this survey of current excavation techniques, now in its third edition, remains an in-dispensible guide for archaeologists. his text has been written by... -
Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
RRP: $24.50$14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Case Studies of Famous Trials and the Construction of Guilt and Innocence Caroline Gorden 9781529203677
RRP: $32.24$25.01From the trials of Oscar Pistorius to O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, this innovative book provides a critical review of 11 high profile criminal cases. These case studies examine how 'guilt' and 'innocence' are constructed in the courts and in wider... -
The Colour of Fashion: The story of clothes in 10 colours by Caroline Young
RRP: $19.34$13.20The story of fashion is woven through with colour. Vividly illustrated and compellingly written, The Colour of Fashion uncovers the colourful history of style, through 10 shades and their key moments in the spotlight - including Beyonce in empowering... -
Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider
$17.20Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock,... -
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of the Awesome Power of History's Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath 9780062796097
RRP: $24.50$17.69The Mother Who Sued to Save Her Children from Slavery-Sojourner Truth The Mother of Rock n' Roll-Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Mother of Holocaust Children-Irena Sendler The Mother of Free Burma-Aung San Suu Kyi ... -
Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Druidic Alphabet by Paul Rhys Mountfort
RRP: $21.87$14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892819195Author Paul Rhys MountfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey... -
How Men Can Help: A Guide to Creating True Equality Sophie Gallagher 9781802792973
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Sobering, thought-provoking and action-provoking ... I can't recommend it highly enough' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio Five Live'Thoughtful, empowering and important' Mishal HusainHave you ever...seen a report on the news about male violence,heard a... -
Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok's Nightmare Jails by Sebastian Williams
RRP: $16.76$11.73Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and... -
Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided by Aanchal Malhrota
RRP: $20.63$19.18The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock... -
Grave Intentions by RV Raman
RRP: $11.60$7.84SECRETS Seasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to investigate suspicious incidences on a riverside dig in the heart of remote Bundelkhand. SUPERSTITION In this place, rich in myth and history, the legend goes that anyone who sets... -
Dumb Ideas: A Behind-the-Scenes Exposé on Making Pranks and Other Stupid Creative Endeavors (and How You Can Also Too!) by Eric Andre 9781982187682
RRP: $25.80$17.11From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip, an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric Andre is a master of the art of pranking-"an Andy Kaufman for the Four Loko generation," as Spin magazine once... -
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs
RRP: $32.19$29.06A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of... -
Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200–1900 by Patrick McDonagh
RRP: $32.25$28.11This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle... -
The Ocean in a Drop: Navigating from Crisis to Consciousness by Dr Rosalind Savage, MBE
RRP: $25.80$19.40The bad news is that our civilisation is collapsing. The good news is that you are already helping create a new and better one.The Ocean in a Drop follows the quest of Roz Savage, a frustrated environmentalist and ocean adventurer, to find out why her... -
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288
RRP: $34.83$14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509288Author Ibram X. KendiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
Should We Control World Population? Diana Coole (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 9781509523412
RRP: $19.34$17.52By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled?... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: $19.34$14.13Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' ... -
Fighting with Pride: LGBT in the Armed Forces by Craig Jones
RRP: $32.25$23.25To mark the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the British Armed Forces gay ban' on 12 January 2020, this book brings together a selection of LGBTQ servicemen and women who have served in the Armed Forces since the Second World War. Their stories are... -
Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: $21.92$19.44With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities,... -
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
RRP: $18.05$11.95The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school... -
The Coinage of Roman Britain Richard Reece 9780752425238
RRP: $32.25$26.16The first two chapters provide a resume of how the coinage of the central Roman state changed, developed and stumbled. In Britain most coins in museums and collections come from hoards (coins deposited in a group) or from coins found singly during... -
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: $16.76$11.13In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles Travis Elborough 9781408712849
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon GarfieldThe humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us even really think about... -
Mapping the Unmappable? - Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa Ute Dieckmann 9783837652413
RRP: $64.50$52.52How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments...