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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan by Gunter Schubert 9780367581619
RRP: $56.75$50.10The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan offers a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Each contribution summarises the major findings in the field and highlights long-term trends, recent observations and... -
Rights and Wrongs in Social Work by Mark Doel
$43.89In this hugely accessible new book, Mark Doel guides the reader through a proper consideration of these questions by examining the typical ethical dilemmas that challenge social workers on a daily basis. Inquisitive, probing and intellectually... -
League Of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780770437565Author Mark Fainaru-WadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Three Rivers... -
The Anthropology of the Future by Rebecca Bryant
RRP: $34.82$25.79Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six... -
Children in Secure Accommodation: A Gendered Exploration of Locked Institutional Care for Children in Trouble by Teresa O'Neill
RRP: $58.05$55.53Secure accommodation continues to be a controversial facility for children in the care and criminal justice systems. Children are placed in secure accommodation for a wide range of reasons, and include those who have run away from home or care as well as... -
Widowland by C J Carey 9781529411980
RRP: $19.34$13.73'READING THIS TERRIFIC, ORWELLIAN NOVEL YOU ALMOST HOLD YOUR BREATH' Bel MooneyAn alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris' Fatherland, Christina Dalcher's Vox and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood.'A... -
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
RRP: $12.89$9.78In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and... -
Cruel Hoax: Feminism & the New World Order by Henry Makow
RRP: $21.92$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968772515Author Henry MakowFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Silas GreenPublisher Silas GreenWeight(grams) 344g -
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Fay Bound Alberti 9780199599035
RRP: $29.66$22.05To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a... -
Brave: How I rebuilt my life after love turned to hate by Adele Bellis
RRP: $14.18$10.69Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence.The inspiring true story of a young woman who suffered a terrifyingly abusive relationship culminating in a horrific acid attack from the man who claimed to love her. Adele was just 23 years... -
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap by Carrie Gracie
RRP: $7.73$5.30'Equal tells a personal story that changed the public debate' Guardian'[An] absorbing account . . . she laces her tale with mordant humour' Financial Times'A gripping personal story told with warmth and wit, combined with a 'how to' guide for anyone who... -
Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin 9780520271173
RRP: $32.25$25.27In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning... -
The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment by Hans Joas
RRP: $54.17$46.81Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Physical Protection Systems by Mary Lynn Garcia 9780750677882
$71.27Vulnerability Assessment of Physical Protection Systems guides the reader through the topic of physical security with a unique, detailed and scientific approach. The book describes the entire vulnerability assessment (VA) process, from the start of... -
Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory by Alex Law
RRP: $47.72$39.07"I think this will prove to be a very useful text for undergraduate students. Alex Law has produced a comprehensive list of key classical social theory concepts and provides an accessible account of the meaning of central terms, their place in the... -
The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along by Jennifer Roback Morse 9781505112450
RRP: $38.64$22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505112450Author Jennifer Roback MorseFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams)... -
Gender: The Basics: 2nd edition Hilary M. Lips 9781138036895
RRP: $25.79$22.82Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the influence of cultural, historical, biological, psychological, and economic forces on ways in which we have come to define and experience femininity and masculinity, and on the impact and importance of... -
Against Charity by Julie Wark 9781849353045
RRP: $17.42$11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353045Author Julie WarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
The Anatomy of Prejudices by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 9780674031913
RRP: $36.06$29.09In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who... -
Creating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch by Catriona Miller
RRP: $42.56$37.62Creating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas, develop story lines and characters and hook an audience, whilst staying aware of the realities of the media landscape.Beginning with a... -
Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea by Vincent Gaffney 9781905739141
$36.6212,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique... -
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists Catherine Marsh 9780745622835
RRP: $23.21$21.21The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and graphical approaches, it moves on in later chapters to simple strategies for examining the... -
Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures Caroline Bassett 9780745340500
RRP: $29.66$23.14As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of... -
The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities by Outi Hakola 9781793635273
RRP: $38.70$36.15The ideologies and practices of various populist movements are centered on issues of gender, especially idealized notions of masculinity. Offering cultural, political, and historical approaches from a range of interdisciplinary and international... -
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions by Damon Centola 9780691202426
RRP: $28.38$22.39A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned... -
The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams by Jeff VanderMeer
RRP: $20.63$16.81The Steampunk User's Manual features beautiful images and entertaining text about the incredibly popular Science Fiction subgenre that imagines future technology and fashion via a 19th century perspective and toolbox. The Steampunk User's Manual provides... -
Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters: Compelling Evidence of the Incursion of Giants, Their Extraordinary Technology, and Imminent Return by Stephen Quayle
$21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998142654Author Thomas R HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Defender Publishing LLCPublisher Defender Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild 9780520272941
$33.73In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work", just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to... -
50 Roman Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by John Pearce 9781445686844
RRP: $20.63$14.0050 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as Treasure. It features a wide variety of objects, allowing for a... -
Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations by Joyce Sequichie Hifler 9780933031685
RRP: $23.16$16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933031685Author Joyce Sequichie HiflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Council Oak BooksPublisher Council Oak BooksWeight(grams) 254g -
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen
RRP: $20.63$15.35A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the... -
Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum by Fernando Dominguez Rubio
RRP: $39.99$39.46How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that... -
Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences, Second Edition David Kaplan 9781462553549
$76.47The second edition of this practical book equips social science researchers to apply the latest Bayesian methodologies to their data analysis problems. It includes new chapters on model uncertainty, Bayesian variable selection and sparsity, and Bayesian... -
Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health by Eugene T. Richardson
RRP: $30.96$21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045605Author Eugene T. RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Talia Lavin 9781913183950
RRP: $12.89$8.77***"One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the monstrous views she encounters." - The New York Times"Shocking, angry, funny and wise... Talia Lavin takes no prisoners." - Danny Wallace,... -
Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered by Richard M. Jones
RRP: $16.76$12.41Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's... -
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
RRP: $19.34$15.04Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of "sending the right message," we have maximized the spread of... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: $19.29$13.13New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
RRP: $18.05$13.22In 2014, on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. "It's interesting for sure," Styles said later, adding, "a little niche, maybe." But what seemed niche... -
A Little History of Protest Art by Aindrea Emelife 9781849767828
RRP: $19.35$14.14Art has always declared its dissatisfaction against the status quo. Throughout history artists have used their art to criticise and protest against a range of injustices and inequalities. Their art is an act of defiance, but more importantly it has given...