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Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 by Tony Henderson 9780582264212
RRP: £71.99£69.10This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole,... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres
RRP: £25.00£18.73Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia-peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories. ... -
Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill
RRP: £10.99£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863164Author Marjorie J. SpruillFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 482g -
On the Existence of Digital Objects by Yuk Hui 9780816698912
RRP: £20.99£18.37Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today-as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the... -
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: £19.99£18.09This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of... -
The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media by Emily Hund
RRP: £25.00£17.50A critical history of the social media influencer's rise to global prominenceBefore there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The... -
The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism Bernard Stiegler (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris) 9781509529278
RRP: £24.99£22.21Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could... -
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
RRP: £25.00£18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036890Author Kyla SchullerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm... -
Play Matters by Miguel Sicart
RRP: £16.99£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534512Author Miguel SicartFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: £15.99£11.61________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice by Wendy Gunn
RRP: £29.99£27.04Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets Jennifer Kavanagh 9781408713143
RRP: £16.99£11.54In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before.On the surface,... -
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian
RRP: £30.00£23.29Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian... -
The Private Worlds of Dying Children by Myra Bluebond-Langner
RRP: £32.00£24.76"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die." In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic... -
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar 9780691150451
RRP: £28.00£21.80How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third... -
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey
RRP: £27.99£24.14Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99£9.88Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan
RRP: £19.99£15.76**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,... -
Democracy At Work: Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises by Richard Wolff 9781608462476
RRP: £16.99£10.11The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people are seeking out new forms of democracy. A new historical vista is opening before us. Democracy at Work is a... -
Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution Doug Fine 9781603585439
RRP: £11.99£7.57The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to... -
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose 9780745611563
RRP: £17.99£17.44Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked,... -
Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois) 9781557862914
RRP: £40.95£35.89Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter... -
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill 9781620975923
RRP: £18.99£12.93A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political... -
The Object Reader by Fiona Candlin
RRP: £46.99£41.97This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields.The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of... -
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality by Agnes Horvath 9781785337499
RRP: £27.95£22.58Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between... -
Demography: A Very Short Introduction by Sarah Harper 9780198725732
RRP: £8.99£6.45The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within... -
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once by Phil Wang 9781529350272
RRP: £20.00£15.01A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'Phil Wang makes me laugh out loud with every single thing he does and this book is no exception' JAMES ACASTER'An hilarious breath of fresh air' AMY SCHUMER'Phil Wang is as original a writer as he is a comedian... -
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought by Kenneth Morrison
RRP: £51.00£41.74`This is an excellent introduction to classical social theory. For most students it is the only book on the subject that they will need. The expositions are clear and comprehensive, outlining with almost alarming clarity ideas with which many of us have... -
One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wac by Charity Adams Earley 9780890966945
RRP: £25.95£17.77When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
RRP: £18.99£12.48AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too... -
Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community by Julia Cassaniti
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to... -
Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media by Suzanne Franks
RRP: £35.00£31.24The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The... -
My 1980s & Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780374533779
RRP: £25.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533779Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men by Robert Jensen 9781742199924
RRP: £14.95£9.34The pathology of patriarchy, the idea that one group of people should control another-even own them, own even life itself-is at the core of today's crises. The End of Patriarchy asks one key question: What do we need to create and maintain stable, decent... -
Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters by Aph Ko 9781590565551
RRP: £18.99£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565551Author Aph KoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Visitors' Historic Britain: West Sussex: Stone Age to Cold War by Kevin Newman 9781526703330
RRP: £14.99£7.54Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but _Visitors' Historic Britain - West Sussex_ is the first book to take readers on a tour of discovery of... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: £36.00£28.89The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek... -
Prehistoric Sussex by Alex Vincent 9781398112254
RRP: £15.99£10.85Sussex is rich in remains of the prehistoric eras, from the earliest Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) era when stone tools were first developed by ancient hominids, through the other Stone Age eras (Mesolithic and Neolithic), to the Bronze and Iron Ages up... -
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards
RRP: £23.99£21.84In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future...