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Secrets Of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park
RRP: £25.00£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2009 William Welch Medal given by the American Association for the History of Medicine. 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781890951689Author Katharine ParkFormat... -
Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care John Edmonstone 9781138596832
RRP: £36.99£32.53Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards... -
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling
RRP: £11.99£9.70Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all... -
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford
RRP: £30.00£23.69This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.About the AuthorJames Clifford... -
Breaking the News: 500 Years of News in Britain Jackie Harrison 9780712354417
RRP: £25.00£16.78Whether tainted by suppression or hailed as a liberator of truth, the news is integral to our daily life. From the earliest news reporting over 500 years ago to today's 24-hour coverage of events in print and online, on television and on social media,... -
Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
RRP: £18.99£17.91The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. ... -
Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation by Kath Woodward 9780415329682
RRP: £35.99£31.69Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social... -
The Quantified Self Deborah Lupton 9781509500604
RRP: £15.99£14.41With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'. In this... -
Operation Toussaint by Tim Ballard
RRP: £15.99£11.04An adaptation of the documentary film, Operation Toussaint reveals how an Ex-Special Agent and Operation Underground Railroad are saving children from sex trafficking around the world through Operation Toussaint, a covert mission to Haiti. Tim Ballard... -
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine
RRP: £22.99£20.01Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category... -
Tales of Love by Julia Kristeva 9780231060257
RRP: £35.00£28.14Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate."About the AuthorJulia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and... -
The Healing Practices of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller: Plants, Charms, and Amulets of the Healers of the Crusades by Jon G. Hughes
RRP: £18.99£12.67A detailed exploration of the remedies and methods used by the healers who journeyed along with the Crusading knights* Presents a traditional "cure-all" or leechbook of the ailments the Crusaders would have encountered and the remedies their mediciners... -
Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid
RRP: £18.99£18.16THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!"Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental leave, affordable... -
AdoptyMum: A Survival Guide To Life With Adopted Kids by Elena Holmes 9781910089903
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089903Author Elena HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint AdoptybooksPublisher Tangent Books -
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by PhD Lmsw Brene Brown
RRP: £28.00£16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812995848Author Brene BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Esoteric Hollywood:: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film by Jay Dyer 9781634240772
RRP: £17.95£14.51Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town's biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay... -
Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research by Mats Alvesson 9781473964242
RRP: £62.00£50.40Praise for the Second Edition: "In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make... -
Living with Frailty: From Assets and Deficits to Resilience Shibley Rahman 9781138301214
RRP: £39.99£35.06Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of... -
Angry White Men, 2nd Edition: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel
RRP: £13.99£9.75We hear them on talk radio airwaves bellowing about minorities. We watch them organize anti-immigration demonstrations on the border. We read their opinions regarding the demise of white male privilege. And sometimes, tragically, we witness their... -
Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women, With a New Preface by Catharine A. MacKinnon 9780674237667
RRP: £16.95£13.85"Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It's a book whose time has come-always, but perhaps now more than ever."-Cass Sunstein,... -
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas
RRP: £23.99£21.24In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was... -
Childhood, Culture and Society: In a Global Context by Michael Wyness
RRP: £42.99£35.42Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood. A formidable exploration of the nature of contemporary childhood in globally disparate... -
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
RRP: £28.95£22.90This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to... -
Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices by Freiya Benson
RRP: £16.99£16.51Selected as a 2019 LGBT Book of the Year by Dazed and Ms. MagazineA ground-breaking anthology of writing on the topic of love, written by trans and non-binary people who share their thoughts, feelings and experiences of love in all its guises. The... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero
£17.13***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the... -
The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing by Steven Connor
£27.53Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor's The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner... -
Economic Crime: From Conception to Response by Mark Button
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional... -
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
RRP: £10.99£7.40India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range... -
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton 9781934414903
RRP: £24.99£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781934414903Author Lucille CliftonFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint BOA Editions,... -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £10.99£8.43In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is... -
Little Black Dress: A Radical Fashion by Georgina Ripley 9781910682272
RRP: £30.00£24.17At its inception, the 'Little Black Dress' was radically modern: a masculine-inspired, anti-traditionalist female attire. Yet it has remained a wardrobe staple for almost a century, each new silhouette redressing gendered boundaries of fashion to reflect... -
BTEC Level 3 National Creative Media Production Student Book Paul Baylis 9781846906725
RRP: £38.49£35.16Unrivalled support: the student book offers complete support for the mandatory units, including those for the pathways, and valuable sector information and skills for all learners working towards a Certificate, Subsidiary Diploma, Diploma or Extended... -
Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 - 1950 by Sacha Llewellyn
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993088483Author Sacha LlewellynFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Liss LlewellynPublisher Liss Llewellyn -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
RRP: £21.99£19.19In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept... -
Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma by Alex Iantaffi
RRP: £21.99£21.05WINNER - NAUTILUS GOLD BOOK AWARDExploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings. Weaving... -
Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War Deborah Cadbury 9781408845080
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to... -
How To Change It: Make a Difference by Joshua Virasami
RRP: £6.99£5.13Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides._______________________________________________________How to Change It: your indispensable guide to activismIs it possible to... -
Pukka Indian: 100 Objects that Define India by Jahnvi Lakhota Nandan
RRP: £24.95£17.35In Hindi 'pukka' means genuine, authentic, complete. Design in India is not only determined by the aesthetic appeal of the object, but also by the significance of the object in the everyday life of its users. In some instances, the age-old practices... -
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White
RRP: £25.00£19.59This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian... -
The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite by Stephen Birmingham 9781493024681
RRP: £13.99£11.24Tracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves 'the nobility of Jewry,' in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new world-first...