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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker
RRP: £23.99£20.51For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness... -
How to Thrive in Professional Practice: A Self-care Handbook by Stephen J Mordue
RRP: £22.99£20.11This engaging book pulls together the individual strains of self-care, spirituality and common sense. It is a one-stop 'bible' to give social workers and other professionals an uncomplicated, easy to read resource that empowers them to manage and... -
Training for Transformation (IV): A handbook for community workers Book 4 by Anne Hope 9781853394614
RRP: £24.95£22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853394614Author Anne HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Making of English Popular Culture by John Storey
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that... -
How Gay Men Prepare for Death: The Dying Business Peter Robinson (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781839095870
RRP: £20.00£16.98The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. How do we prepare for the penultimate stage of life? This is a crucial question now facing the ageing post-war generation. ... -
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality by Susan McClary 9780816641895
RRP: £17.99£15.90A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. ". . . this is a major book . . . [McClary's]... -
Society Against the State - Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres
RRP: £20.00£15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299014Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm -
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
RRP: £22.00£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and Loeb Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143118244Author Andrew Ross SorkinFormat PaperbackPage... -
Reprieve by James Han Mattson
RRP: £16.99£16.27An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland '[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN 'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Clever, insightful and unnerving' OBSERVER ... -
Percy Maylam's The Kent Hooden Horse by Richard Maylam 9780752449975
RRP: £14.99£11.55In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second... -
Gender Theory in Troubled Times by Kathleen Lennon 9780745683027
RRP: £17.99£16.04Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed,... -
Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt by Margot Badran 9780691026053
RRP: £45.00£35.32The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive... -
Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now Lauren Sharkey 9781526361844
RRP: £8.99£6.20'An inspiring gift for teenagers with a conscience' - Independent'We're not the future. We're doing it right now.'Young people are uniting across the world to create change, have their voices heard and stand up for what they believe in.In this bold and... -
Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science by Gregory Wawro
RRP: £30.00£23.29How to study the past using dataQuantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science advances historical research in the social sciences by bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Gregory Wawro and Ira Katznelson argue for an... -
Speaking of Indians by Vine Deloria
RRP: £11.99£9.31Ella Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of language and the understanding necessary to bridge races... -
Princeton Review AP Human Geography Premium Prep, 2024: 6 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & Techniques by The Princeton Review 9780593517192
RRP: £23.00£16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517192Author The Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of the Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
RRP: £14.99£9.98In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century's most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult.From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet... -
Journey of Crazy Horse, the by Joseph M Marshall
RRP: £19.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036210Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Playing with Myself by Randy Rainbow 9781250801715
RRP: £15.99£10.25Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered YouTube with a stylish pair of pink glasses, an inexhaustible knowledge of show tunes, and the most gimlet-eyed view of American politics this side of Mark Twain finally tells all in Playing with Myself, a memoir sure... -
The Interrupted Journey by John Fuller
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468234Author John FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster Keith Smith 9780815365419
RRP: £39.99£36.06The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to... -
Social Work Theories in Context: Creating Frameworks for Practice by Karen Healy
RRP: £29.99£27.55This popular and innovative core text book explores contemporary social work theories and perspectives in a systematic way, using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory, and practice approaches. Healy expertly provides an applied... -
The Story of Silbury Hill Jim Leary (Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Sciences (SAGES) (United Kingdom)) 9781848020467
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Story of Silbury Hill sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill. For the first time, the results of the recent work are set out in detail,... -
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research by David Silverman
RRP: £16.99£14.12The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with... -
Derbyshire Murders by Martin Baggoley
RRP: £15.99£12.25Derbyshire Murders brings together fifteen of the county's most extraordinary and shocking cases. The crimes covered made not just local but in some cases national headlines. For this fascinating, illustrated collection, Martin Baggoley has returned to... -
Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth Linda McDowell (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781405105866
RRP: £19.99£17.69Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.Looks at... -
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm by Alex Blanchette
RRP: £22.99£20.01In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been... -
Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Steve Humphries 9781785902161
£13.03Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives. This vital new oral... -
The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan by Urgunge Onon
RRP: £43.99£38.44There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only surviving Mongol source about the empire. The book is mainly about the life and the career of Chinggis Khan,... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig
RRP: £24.00£23.03For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might... -
Ethnography: Step-by-Step by David Fetterman 9781452255651
RRP: £54.00£47.56David M. Fetterman captures the ethnographic imagination with the Fourth Edition of his popular text, Ethnography: Step-by-Step. He shares new case examples of his work to highlight the illuminating power of reflexivity and theory. The new edition... -
China's Economic Dialectic by Enfu Cheng 9780717808878
RRP: £29.99£28.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808878Author Enfu ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom 9780863584268
RRP: £20.00£18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584268Author Marilyn YalomFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press -
The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work Karen H Lyons 9780857023339
£103.88Social work is a profession that is increasingly involved with issues which have a global dimension. This Handbook tackles the global/local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogates the key concerns that societies are facing through an... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan 9781645036654
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036654Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *... -
Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 by Gershon Shafir
RRP: £29.00£22.54Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible... -
An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War by Matthew J. Shaw
RRP: £18.00£17.42An Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe and America from the British Civil Wars to the Battle of... -
Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution by Yasmin El-Rifae
£15.10In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution were tempered by revelations of mass sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the revolution's symbolic birthplace. This is the story of the women and men who formed Opantish - Operation... -
Routledge Handbook of Body Studies by Professor Bryan S. Turner 9781138080119
RRP: £39.99£35.46In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research,... -
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research by Stephen L. Morgan 9781107694163
RRP: £34.99£30.49In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and health...