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A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
RRP: £12.99£11.94First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it... -
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
RRP: £19.99£15.76'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of... -
Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil: My Life as a Football Hooligan Leader by Colin Blaney
£11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479419Author Colin BlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 215g -
Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder Involvement Approaches David M. Fetterman 9781462532827
£34.08From pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the... -
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future Steven Novella 9781399706735
RRP: £10.99£7.40OUT NOW: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance... -
Seeking Spatial Justice by Edward W. Soja
RRP: £19.99£17.54In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient... -
A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen
£19.12Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is. In this book, Lars Svendsen examines the nature of... -
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy 9780316256575
RRP: £30.00£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Psychology) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780316256575Author Amy CuddyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher... -
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do by Clotaire Rapaille
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920575Author Clotaire RapailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts by Peter Coleman 9781586489212
£30.71One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled... -
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and... -
Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward John W. Chapman 9780202361345
RRP: £43.99£38.84This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater... -
Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman by Abby Stein
RRP: £25.00£16.69Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern... -
Adult lives: A life course perspective Jeanne Katz (Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University) 9781447300434
RRP: £31.99£24.87With the proportion of people between young adulthood and the third age growing in relation to children and young people in western industrialised societies, there is an increasing need for a comprehensive look at the past, present and future of adult... -
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain by Nicolas Langlitz 9780520274822
RRP: £30.00£23.29"Neuropsychedelia" examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late... -
The Love Algorithm: The perfect witty romcom, new from international bestselling author 2022 by Claudia Carroll
RRP: £8.99£6.22'A superb romcom, with relatable and loveable characters that literally burst from the pages. With laugh-out-loud moments, woven between a heartwarming and hopeful story, it charmed me from the first page'Carmel HarringtonTrue love is only just a swipe... -
In the Streets of Tehran: Woman. Life. Freedom. by Nila 9781804184523
RRP: £12.99£8.73INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good.Following the death of Mahsa-Jina... -
Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism by June Eric-Udorie
RRP: £11.99£8.00'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bestselling author of Brit(ish)Black Lives Matter * Trans Rights * Sex Workers'... -
Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies by Allison Hitt
£26.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814141540Author Allison Harper HittFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of... -
The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman 9780197658949
RRP: £24.49£20.78An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and... -
Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London by Paul Watt
£34.83Using extensive original research undertaken in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration in relation to key housing and urban policy debates. Using interviews which foreground the experiences and perspectives of estate residents... -
Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen by Abby Denson
RRP: £12.99£9.00Traveling to Japan has never been so much fun--visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi!This graphic Japan travel guide is the first of its kind exploring Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: £12.99£9.50The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on... -
Introducing Cultural Studies Brian Longhurst (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) 9781138915725
RRP: £39.99£39.54This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first... -
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews
RRP: £19.00£18.50There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: £18.00£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730476Author Sam QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 437g -
The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters by Robert Meyer
RRP: £13.99£12.59"The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk." -Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel... -
An Introduction to Penology: Punishment, Prisons and Probation by Lawrence Burke
RRP: £28.99£23.38An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of punishment plays out in community and custodial settings with people who have broken the law. With a... -
Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele
RRP: £21.99£19.19Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist... -
Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China by Casey James Miller
RRP: £29.99£26.50Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest... -
Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples by Richard Katz 9781620552674
RRP: £25.00£16.24Connecting modern psychology to its Indigenous roots to enhance the healing process and psychology itself * Shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous people the author has worked with, including the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, the Fijians of the... -
Mustang: Translating Willful Youth Elif Akcali 9780367543136
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Erguven's debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village... -
Your Social Work Practice Placement: From Start to Finish by Ian Mathews 9781849201797
RRP: £31.99£26.36Embarking on a first practice placement can be an anxious experience for social work students. This textbook takes them step-by-step through the process, holding their hand through preparation for practice modules and during the course of the placement... -
Worcestershire Folk Tales by Phelps David
RRP: £12.99£9.62Worcestershire is a county of contrasts, with one face turned to the modern buzz of Birmingham and the other turned towards the quiet rural landscape of the West Country. Its folk tales reflect this dichotomy, with some stories based in the fears and... -
A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar by Norman Robert Bennett
RRP: £36.99£32.93During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and... -
Holy Anorexia by Rudolph M. Bell
RRP: £33.00£32.05Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes. "Everyone... -
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Struggle for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant
RRP: £17.00£10.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982144296Author Anita DiamantFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by Stephanie Y. Evans 9781438483641
RRP: £20.40£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Youth Work: Preparation for Practice by Jason Wood
RRP: £42.99£37.59Professional practice is at the heart of youth work training but integrating the theory learned in class with the reality of placements can sometimes require extra support. This comprehensive textbook is designed to help students working with young... -
Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise by Brett Smith
RRP: £54.99£48.12The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise. The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer an in-depth survey of established and emerging qualitative...