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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor 9781620971284
RRP: $24.50$16.68A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new social criticHow much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities... -
Liverpool and the Slave Trade Anthony Tibbles 9781786941534
RRP: $21.22$20.11During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships... -
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez 9781639550203
RRP: $16.76$11.13The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern... -
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy by Dennis Tedlock 9780871401465
RRP: $25.80$21.10This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's "Career of the Medicine... -
Iron John: A Book about Men by Robert Bly 9780306824265
RRP: $16.76$15.30In this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men, as well as on reflections on his own life. He addresses... -
Researching Sex and Sexualities by Paul Boyce 9781786993199
$49.14Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:... -
Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $47.72$41.96In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social... -
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend
RRP: $18.05$15.80Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new Internet of Things. In Smart Cities Anthony Townsend explores the question of what happens when computers... -
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
RRP: $27.08$23.70The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions... -
Folklore of Essex by Sylvia Kent 9780752436777
RRP: $19.34$14.90Essex - the witch hunting county - is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories that have been handed down through the ages. It is these traditions that are gathered together in this volume and whose origins and meanings are explored to... -
The Cultural Industries by David Hesmondhalgh 9781526424105
RRP: $60.62$49.24An undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries. Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an... -
Museum Basics: The International Handbook Timothy Ambrose (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, UK and a Fellow of the Museums Association, UK) 9781138292475
RRP: $51.59$46.52This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in... -
The Mythology of Grimm: The Fairy Tale and Folklore Roots of the Popular TV Show by Nathan Robert Brown 9780425271025
RRP: $24.45$18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271025Author Nathan Robert BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge by John Bateson 9780520272408
RRP: $32.25$25.79The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It's... -
Economy and Society by Max Weber 9780520280021
RRP: $96.75$78.03Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern sociological imagination. The first... -
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino
RRP: $21.92$19.44How the "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days-or weeks, or months, or even years-being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak... -
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations Avtar Brah 9781913380083
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380083Author Avtar BrahFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question by Robert Fine 9781526104977
RRP: $24.50$17.85Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of humanity. Universalism can be used to demand that we treat... -
British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford by Alan Crossley
RRP: $90.30$85.89The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas series covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical... -
The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism by Bruce Katz
RRP: $25.79$19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731641Author Bruce KatzFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
Gender, Inequality, and Wages by Francine D. Blau 9780198779971
$53.07In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years, although there have been some important changes over time. This volume of collected papers contains extensive research on progress made... -
Atlantis Destroyed by Rodney Castleden 9780415165396
RRP: $174.15$151.81Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the absurdest lie in literature. Atlantis Destroyed explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically true. Rodney Castleden first considers the location of Atlantis... -
Writings on Media: History of the Present by Stuart Hall
RRP: $30.95$26.88Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as "Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse" (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news... -
Survey Research by R. J. Sapsford 9781412912327
RRP: $65.79$53.33This much-anticipated Second Edition presents an informative and accessible account of survey research. It guides the reader through the main theoretical and practical aspects of the subject and illustrates the application of survey methods through... -
Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback Edition by Clive Seale 9781412934206
RRP: $77.40$62.98'This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research.... [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher' - Nurse Researcher `This comprehensive collection of almost 40... -
Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction by Stuart Isaacs
RRP: $46.43$40.88Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction contextualises the most pressing social problems of our times drawing upon the disciplines of sociology, social policy, education studies and health studies. This much-needed textbook brings together a... -
Goth: Undead Subculture by Michael Bibby
RRP: $32.24$28.47Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays... -
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory by Lisa Disch 9780190872823
RRP: $57.39$54.41The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines Greg Bankoff 9781138879263
RRP: $61.91$53.93Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest... -
A Faith in Archaeological Science: Reflections on a Life by Don Brothwell 9781784913014
$73.54This is the first memoir by an internationally known archaeological scientist, and one who has been particularly research active for over fifty years in the broad field of bioarchaeology. Written with humour and a critical concern to understand the... -
The Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society by Richard Webber
RRP: $46.43$38.70It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live. Social scientists call this practice... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: $56.75$48.44Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction Fiona Bowie (University of Bristol) 9781405121057
RRP: $36.06$31.28Now available in a revised second edition, this popular introduction to the anthropology of religion combines discussion of the origin and development of debates within the field, with a look at where the subject is heading. Introduces readers to the... -
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival by Richard Heinberg
RRP: $23.21$16.38Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. - Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements... -
Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $56.75$49.59Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: $11.60$7.84What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national... -
Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences Berth Danermark (Orebro University, Sweden,) 9781138497818
RRP: $51.59$45.23Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical... -
The Waste of the World: Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem Nicky Gregson (Durham University, UK) 9781529232448
RRP: $36.11$27.83Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book... -
Beautifully Said: Quotes by remarkable women and girls, designed to make you think by Quotabelle
RRP: $19.34$12.64Beautifully Said is a female-forward collection of 21 themed chapters of quotes and stories from brilliant, brave, captivating women and girls. Looking for a quote to inspire your daughter, sister, mother, teammate, or friend? Or are you a hand lettering... -
Universal Tree and the Four Birds by Muhyiddin Ibn'Arabi
RRP: $33.48$12.81Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent...