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Insanitary City: Henry Littlejohn and the Condition of Edinburgh by Paul Laxton 9781859362204
RRP: $32.24$26.32Dr Henry Littlejohn's Report on the Sanitary Condition of Edinburgh (1865) was a landmark in urban management and public health administration. The Lancet described it as 'monumental'. The Report had a significance far beyond the boundaries of Edinburgh... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $38.70$30.56Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and... -
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma
RRP: $12.89$8.41'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the... -
Kyiv - Moments In Time Peter Ford 9781399946742
RRP: $38.69$30.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399946742Author Peter FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint FordographyPublisher FordographyWeight(grams) 1300gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 300mm * 17mm -
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
RRP: $18.05$14.13While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality,sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of... -
Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education by Nicole Brown
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354982Author Nicole BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 410g -
Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: $19.34$14.90Contained within the pages of Bristol Murders are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Bristol. They include the murder and suicide of a brother and sister in 1842; the tragic death of 10-year-old Mabel Price in 1897; the... -
You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity by Martin Robinson
RRP: $25.80$19.76'A sharp but sensitive exploration of the pitfalls of masculinity' - Jeffrey Boakye 'A wake up call to men' - JJ Bola In this searingly honest book we join Martin Robinson - magazine journalist and founder of men's media site The Book of Man - on a... -
Book Production by Adrian Bullock
RRP: $51.59$45.23The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit the potential of digital technology,... -
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging Jodi Dean 9781788735018
RRP: $19.34$16.19In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade". Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem... -
The Zizek Reader Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge) 9780631212010
RRP: $54.12$47.38The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
Girls Support Girls: Empowering Quotes for Awesome Women Summersdale Publishers 9781800073982
RRP: $9.02$6.45Empowered women empower women! This small but mighty book - bursting with kick-ass quotes and uplifting statements - is a celebration of female strength and solidarity. There's nothing more powerful than a strong woman - except for two strong women... -
Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks by Anne Markiewicz 9781483358338
RRP: $69.66$61.38This practical book provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in a participatory, logical, systematic, and integrated way. The authors outline the key stages and steps involved, including: scoping the... -
Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review: A Multimodal and Cultural Approach by Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
RRP: $51.59$42.65Lecturers/instructors - request a free digital inspection copy here This dynamic guide to doing literature reviews demystifies the process in seven steps to show researchers how to produce a comprehensive literature review. Teaching techniques to bring... -
The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations by Elizabeth Keating
RRP: $24.50$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593420928Author Elizabeth KeatingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
RRP: $34.83$34.66Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone... -
Domestic Violence and Sexuality: What's Love Got to Do with It? Catherine Donovan (Department of Social Sciences, University of Sunderland.) 9781447307440
RRP: $38.69$29.70Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by... -
Murdoch by William Shawcross 9780684830155
$30.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684830155Author William ShawcrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 751gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice by Joan C. Tronto
RRP: $30.95$26.88A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the... -
The Archimedes Codex: Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest Reviel Netz 9780753823729
RRP: $12.89$8.77The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost worksDrawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being... -
Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms And The Unending Consumption Of Culture David Arditi (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) 9781839827730
RRP: $23.21$17.05The explosion of services such as Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and YouTube, which allow us to access content at the click of a button, has turned the norms surrounding cultural consumption upside down. How has this shift to an... -
The Bonds of Blood Rob Sinclair 9781800322875
RRP: $11.60$7.51One perfect family. One deadly secret. One killer on the loose.Annie and Terry Eccles seemed to have it all, until one night they are brutally murdered in their bed.Called in to head up the case, DI Dani Stephens delves into the couple's past, quickly... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard 9781474604710
RRP: $11.60$7.64Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. Our education predicts how much we'll earn, how content we will be, even how long we'll live. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch... -
One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea: A Clinical Psychologist's Experience of Grief by Vanessa Moore
RRP: $19.34$12.29'Dr Moore's 1000-day-plus journey evocatively and beautifully describes the mental devastation that personal loss can leave in its wake and offers us the remarkable combination of expert commentary and an intensely personal captivating narrative.'- Peter... -
Sorry for Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death by Ann Marie Hourihane
RRP: $21.92$14.54The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life... -
X Saves The World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking by Jeff Gordinier
$18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115151Author Jeff GordinierFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 185g -
Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: $64.50$50.46Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and... -
The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society by William Deresiewicz 9781250858634
RRP: $20.63$14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250858634Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki 9781612680880
RRP: $16.76$11.13It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad -- the #1 Personal... -
Whole-Body Sex: Somatic Sex Therapy and the Lost Language of the Erotic Body by Melissa Walker
RRP: $37.40$32.37Winner of the 2023 AASECT Book Award for General Audience!Weaving together somatic psychotherapy, dance/movement therapy, and sex therapy approaches, this uniquely interdisciplinary and practical book offers guidance on how to strengthen your connection... -
Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms by Victoria D. Alexander
RRP: $46.38$41.37Explains the key concepts, theories, and studies in the sociology of the arts-the fully updated new edition of the classic textbook Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive yet accessible review of sociological approaches to studying the fine, popular,... -
Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey - Advocate for an Indefinite Human Lifespan by Douglas Lain 9781785353963
RRP: $7.73$7.06Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the... -
Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases by Howard Phillips 9780821420287
RRP: $16.76$15.18This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and... -
Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
RRP: $28.37$27.98From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a... -
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History by Bashir Bashir
RRP: $45.15$35.78In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed... -
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
RRP: $20.63$16.46A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the... -
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
RRP: $30.30$23.05From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the... -
Black Power: the Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: $20.63$14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743132Author Charles V. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)... -
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir by Michael Morton 9781476756837
$14.80On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed-and the Williamson County Sherriff's... -
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World Harald E. Braun 9781472427502
RRP: $174.15$151.81Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined...