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Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim by Dave Yost 9780786433186
RRP: £21.99£17.97As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1st, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the... -
The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £18.99£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982220Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
Yurei: The Japanese Ghost: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson
RRP: £14.99£10.98"I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting from anecdotes to deep research to translation of ancient ghost stories, he explores the persistence... -
Earth Construction: A comprehensive guide by Hugo Houben
RRP: £29.95£27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853391934Author Hugo HoubenFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker 9781501192852
RRP: £28.00£17.05From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that "is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and... -
Modern Police Leadership by Mark Roycroft
RRP: £44.99£40.49This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background. It sets out the modern challenges and demands facing the police and then covers the... -
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Renee Arvin
RRP: £22.99£20.01From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean... -
Writings on Cities Henri Lefebvre 9780631191889
RRP: £32.95£29.14The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following... -
Fashion Theory: An Introduction by Malcolm Barnard 9780415496216
RRP: £43.99£38.44Fashion is both big business and big news. From models' eating disorders and sweated labour to the glamour of a new season's trends, statements and arguments about fashion and the fashion industry can be found in every newspaper, consumer website and... -
The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes by Elizabeth Shove
RRP: £37.99£31.08Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. In... -
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
RRP: £19.99£17.54Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just... -
The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation by Mark Bowden 9781611856316
RRP: £16.99£11.98From the bestselling author of Killing Pablo, a haunting and gripping account of the true-life search for the perpetrator of a hideous crime-the abduction and likely murder of two young girls in 1975-and the skilful work of the cold case team that... -
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck 9780226829531
RRP: £20.00£19.40A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)... -
Race, Racism and Social Work: Contemporary issues and debates by Michael Lavalette 9781447307075
£30.70Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge. In this timely new book, Lavalette and Penketh reveal that racism towards... -
An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis: A Manual for Family Workers by Gina Smith
RRP: £29.99£29.09An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis is a manual for using cognitive behavioural approach to working with families of people with severe mental illness.The authors, all experienced clinicians, discuss the various core components of family... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption by Matthew Hughey 9781439910016
RRP: £23.99£21.89The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about... -
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
RRP: £15.99£11.61Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us... -
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson 9780593243336
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243336Author Jenn M. JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Climate--A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172480Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: £16.99£13.68A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences by Shannon Mattern
RRP: £16.99£12.19A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new... -
A Geology of Media by Jussi Parikka 9780816695522
RRP: £19.99£17.54Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media... -
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey
RRP: £18.99£15.92From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother... -
A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction Rafe McGregor (Edge Hill University) 9781529208061
RRP: £21.99£17.21Criminology has been reluctant to embrace fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm. In this philosophical enquiry, McGregor uses examples from films, television, novels and graphic novels to... -
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida
RRP: £27.99£24.14Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of... -
CSB Study Bible, Hardcover by CSB Bibles by Holman CSB Bibles by Holman 9781433648090
RRP: £47.99£43.32The CSB Study Bible is designed to help you know and be transformed by God's Word. Featuring the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB), this study Bible keeps Scripture primary on every page. To inspire you to grow... -
Violence: Humans in Dark Times by Brad Evans 9780872867543
RRP: £13.99£9.26Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and... -
Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age by Nicole Seymour
RRP: £20.99£18.37Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement's reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about... -
Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain by Mary Colwell
RRP: £9.99£6.64'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider... -
Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet by Geert Lovink
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246089Author Geert LovinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 147mm * 23mm -
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin 9780195093858
RRP: £18.99£13.29Population is a prominent topic of debate following the world conference at the end of last year. This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled, and makes a forceful case for dramatically changing the... -
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique by Sally Haslanger 9780199892624
RRP: £52.00£51.83Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously... -
a finger in derek jarman's mouth by Simon Maddrell 9781914237195
RRP: £9.00£7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914237195Author Simon MaddrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Polari PressPublisher Polari Press -
Welsh Folklore by Elias Owen 9781912368204
£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368204Author Elias OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books -
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe 9780821424070
RRP: £12.99£11.77An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual... -
The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion by Ken Wilber
RRP: £18.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767903431Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division of... -
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia D'Aragona 9780226136394
RRP: £21.00£20.31First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the... -
One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin 9780307279620
RRP: £14.99£11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279620Author Abigail PogrebinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
God is Dead: Secularization in the West Steve Bruce (University Aberdeen) 9780631232759
RRP: £34.95£30.83Drawing on an international range of examples, Steve Bruce offers a comprehensive and up-to-date defence of the secularisation debate.About the Author Steve Bruce is the Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology at the University of... -
The Essential Groupworker: Teaching and Learning Creative Groupwork by Catherine Sawdon
RRP: £35.00£33.75Focusing on how groupwork can be learnt and taught, the authors of this accessible and lively book consider what is essential in effective work with groups. They develop a practice model which is applicable to a wide range of approaches and actively...