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Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: £8.99£6.08What 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: £39.99£35.06Fully 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: £27.99£21.57Despite 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: £14.99£9.80Beautifully 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: £25.95£9.93Through 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... -
An Introduction to Sociology by Karim Murji
RRP: £33.99£29.01An Introduction to Sociology is your essential guide to understanding the social forces that shape our lives and the world around us. This innovative textbook introduces you to the key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and... -
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies by Jasna Russo 9781910919231
RRP: £22.99£21.48Searching for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the... -
The Medicalization of Cyberspace Andy Miah 9780415393645
RRP: £36.99£32.53The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves... -
The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective by Stephen Shennan
RRP: £82.99£75.21Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research... -
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men by Jane Ward 9781479825172
RRP: £19.99£17.54A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight-her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity,... -
A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada: Volume 2 by Leah K. Hamilton
RRP: £32.00£26.93Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.6 million people have fled Syria and another 6.6 million remain internally displaced. By January 2017, a total of 40,081 Syrians had sought refuge across Canada in the largest resettlement event... -
Acts of Faith: 25th Anniversary Edition by Iyanla Vanzant
RRP: £18.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982106843Author Iyanla VanzantFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm * 25mm -
How to Make Sense of Statistics by Stephen Gorard 9781526413826
RRP: £35.99£29.60In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Stephen Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to ensure students have basic statistical literacy. Understanding why we have to learn statistics and seeing... -
The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia) 9781529224665
RRP: £47.99£37.05This pioneering book demonstrates the disproportionate impact of state responses to COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities. Written by women and queer people of colour academics and activists, the book analyses pandemic lockdowns, border... -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: £16.99£12.25Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his... -
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford 9780674779617
RRP: £31.95£25.57When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a... -
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent V. Flannery 9780674416772
RRP: £22.95£18.78Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent... -
Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference by Lucinda Platt 9781509521265
RRP: £17.99£16.44Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and... -
St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast by Johanna Dale 9781800084360
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084360Author Johanna DaleFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 770g -
Mycenae: Agamemnon's Capital by Elizabeth French 9780752419510
RRP: £27.50£20.28Famous from ancient Greek literature as King Agamemnon's capital, Mycenae was the site of almost unbroken excavation during the 20th century, and this continues today. In presenting a full up-to-date account of the site and placing it in its geographical... -
Levi-Strauss: A Biography Emmanuelle Loyer (Sciences-Po, Paris) 9781509511983
RRP: £17.99£13.14Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete - Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian... -
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone
RRP: £10.99£10.72From the mind of legendary political insider Roger Stone, here is the sensational New York Times bestseller that reveals the truth about who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.From the mind of consummate political insider Roger Stone,... -
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.40A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . intellectually stimulating and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES A... -
Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £15.99£14.41One of the world's leading social thinkers, Bourdieu's work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis of science and its legitimacy. Bourdieu argues that... -
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark D. Regnerus 9780190673611
RRP: £29.99£25.94Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other--the wide uptake of the Pill and high-quality pornography--and its distribution... -
Glass Coffin by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
RRP: £8.99£6.43The tyrannous Huntsmen have declared everyone in one village to be outlaws, since they insist on supporting the magical beings of neighbouring Darkwood. Why won't they accept that magic is an abomination? Far from being abominable, the residents of... -
The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland by Joseph Webster 9781526113771
RRP: £20.00£17.84The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland's... -
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel Israel Shahak 9780745320908
RRP: £24.99£16.38This is a new edition of a classic and highly controversial book that examines the history and consequences of Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. It is essential reading for anyone who wants a full understanding of the way religious extremism has affected... -
Social Network Analysis by John Scott 9781473952126
RRP: £43.99£35.81Incorporating the most important and cutting-edge developments in the field, this bestselling text introduces newcomers to the key theories and techniques of social network analysis and guides more experienced analysts in their own research. New to... -
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist... -
The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from... -
Gonzo Capitalism: How to Make Money in an Economy that Hates You by Chris Guillebeau 9781035020065
RRP: £20.00£13.10From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to create new income streams and thrive in today's turbulent economy. The nine-to-five is dead. This is Gonzo Capitalism.'A... -
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 9781571313560
RRP: £14.99£12.54Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal,... -
Land Renewed: Reworking the Countryside Peter Hetherington (Journalist) 9781529217421
RRP: £19.99£15.76Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the... -
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul Leila Taylor 9781912248544
RRP: £10.99£7.40Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards - the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly reveals the heart of America's darkness in the specters left from... -
The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley) 9781509552184
RRP: £15.99£14.41At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban "underclass." Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic... -
Haunted Data by Lisa Blackman 9781350047051
RRP: £25.99£22.61Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data - big or small - is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data... -
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin Herold
RRP: £32.00£19.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298183Author Benjamin HeroldFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 731gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying by Mary Turner
RRP: £29.99£29.09Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying is a popular resource designed to help adults talk to bereaved children and young people. Mary Turner explains the various aspects and stages of bereavement and offers useful insights into the... -
Rainforest Medicine by Jonathon Miller Weisberger
RRP: £23.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946084Author Jonathon Miller WeisbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...