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Classical Social Theory by Ian Craib
£62.41Ian Craib compellingly shows the value of studying classic thinkers such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel alongside the more popular contemporary questions. Providing an account of the key ideas of classical social theory, Dr Craib establishes their... -
Creative Practice Ethnographies by Larissa Hjorth 9781498572149
RRP: £35.00£32.49Creative Practice Ethnographies focuses on the intersection of creative practice and ethnography and offers new ways to think about the methods, practice, and promise of research in contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. How does creative practice... -
Song of the Crocodile by Caroline Lisa 9781916182769
RRP: £12.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916182769Author Caroline LisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint BOLDvoice pressPublisher BOLDvoice press -
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
RRP: £23.00£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780812983630Author Matt TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA... -
Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna by Betty De Shong Meador
RRP: £25.99£22.49Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now known... -
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion by Tamara Sturtz-Filby 9781802794038
RRP: £25.00£17.38Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the 70s scene, including Grace Coddington, Zandra Rhodes, Willy van Rooy,... -
Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster by Hugo Slim
RRP: £30.00£26.95Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and... -
Social Identity by Richard Jenkins
RRP: £45.99£40.13Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable... -
Understanding Research for Social Policy and Social Work: Themes, Methods and Approaches Saul Becker (University of Sussex, Deputy Vice-Chancellor) 9781847428158
RRP: £29.99£23.42It is vital for students, policy makers and practitioners engaged in social policy, social work and other related academic disciplines and fields of practice to understand the importance of research and how to interpret research evidence and findings... -
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity by Kate Bornstein
RRP: £38.99£34.22"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and,... -
Autoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research by Sherick A. Hughes 9781483306766
RRP: £76.00£68.242020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award winner Autoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research provides a short introduction to the methodological tools and concepts of autoethnography, combining... -
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
RRP: £12.99£11.77Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery? by Julia O'Connell Davidson 9781529730753
RRP: £11.99£9.70Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others hold that the... -
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation by William H. Sewell
RRP: £36.00£30.77While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from... -
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything Mike Rothschild 9781800960459
RRP: £10.99£6.47*****PERFECT FOR FANS OF 'THE COMING STORM'ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no place in any healthy, well-educated society.' - The Telegraph'A compelling book.' - The Guardian'The Storm... -
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci 9780226831466
RRP: £20.00£15.48A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States-and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the... -
Star Wars Be More Leia: Find Your Rebel Voice And Fight The System by Christian Blauvelt
RRP: £6.99£5.71This novelty Star Wars book is full of wise words and sage advice from the galaxy's leading rebel, Princess Leia, and many other brave, confident characters. Full of Star Wars quotes, witty advice and stills from the iconic films, this book will help... -
Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone 9781633536173
RRP: £12.99£9.32Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews... -
How Change Happens by Duncan Green
RRP: £19.99£14.64Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee... -
Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: £8.99£6.45'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published... -
Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica by Luke de Noronha 9781526143990
RRP: £19.99£17.82In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these 'deportees' left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four such men who have been exiled from their... -
The Women's Movement: A Little Welsh History by Daryl Leeworthy 9781786838544
RRP: £11.99£9.00This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women's movement in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in opposition to... -
Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided by Catherine Pelonero 9781510719835
RRP: £20.00£17.82Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown... -
Regression Analysis: A Practical Introduction Jeremy Arkes 9781032257839
RRP: £39.99£35.06This thoroughly practical and engaging textbook is designed to equip students with the skills needed to undertake sound regression analysis without requiring high-level math.Regression Analysis covers the concepts needed to design optimal regression... -
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner
RRP: £20.00£14.69Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Puss in Boots' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, and from Frankenstein to Men in Black. Following her... -
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
RRP: £55.00£43.31Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong... -
Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis by Jane Fishburne Collier 9780804718196
RRP: £32.00£28.21A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718196Author Jane Fishburne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 463g -
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone 9781101990599
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101990599Author Daniel StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis
£11.01"A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world-and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it." -President Bill ClintonA radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies,... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy 9780691174563
RRP: £42.00£33.44The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning Shaul Stampfer 9781906764609
RRP: £24.15£22.11One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was to change the system for educating young men so as to reinforce time-honoured, conservative values. The... -
Desire/Love by Lauren Berlant 9780615686875
RRP: £19.00£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615686875Author Lauren BerlantFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 124mm *... -
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz 9780674013797
RRP: £28.95£23.30How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last... -
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks by David Welch 9781784533571
RRP: £23.99£23.80Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which... -
Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet by Barbara Ward Jackson 9780393301298
RRP: £18.50£15.34An unofficial report commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Prepared with the assistance of a 152-member committee of corresponding consultants in 58 countries."[A] profoundly ethical,... -
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: £17.99£13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
Race and the Undeserving Poor by Robbie Shilliam
RRP: £22.99£21.48Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the "white working class", those thought to have been "left behind" by globalization, including immigration. Such sentiments were weaponized by politicians on all sides to fuel... -
Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference: An Ecointersectional Analysis by Nancy Tuana
RRP: £24.49£20.78While the heavy social impacts of raging wildfires, punishing storms, and climbing temperatures worldwide have made many increasingly aware of the need for climate justice, the intersection of race and climate change has too often been neglected in the... -
Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land by Richard Bradley
RRP: £43.99£38.44Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist. In the first full-length treatment of the subject, based largely on...