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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth by Asaf Elia-Shalev 9780520294318
RRP: £23.00£17.30The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled... -
Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland by Nerys T Patterson
RRP: £124.00£107.04In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods,... -
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women Barbara Ehrenreich 9781400078004
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078004Author Barbara EhrenreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Exploring Disability Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) 9780745634869
RRP: £32.99£29.56The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability... -
At the Fireside: True South African Stories by Roger Webster 9780864864871
RRP: £11.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864864871Author Roger WebsterPage Count 158Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780486284996
RRP: £3.99£2.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486284996Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442682
RRP: £6.99£5.13HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his... -
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed
RRP: £20.99£18.37Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico-from... -
Antidote to Violence, An: Evaluating the evidence Barry Spivack 9781789042580
RRP: £15.99£13.82It's widely accepted that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can create peace for the individual, but can it create peace in society as a whole? And if it can, what could possibly be the mechanism? In An Antidote to Violence Barry Spivack and Patricia... -
The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age by Alison Phipps
RRP: £16.99£16.53Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless... -
The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners Margaret Visser 9780241293645
RRP: £16.99£12.28This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way... -
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany by Mike Dennis 9780857451958
RRP: £99.00£80.47Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, guestA" workers from Vietnam and... -
The Scary Book of Christmas Lore: 50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World by Tim Rayborn 9781646434527
RRP: £10.99£7.89You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen...but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas figures of all? Not all children fear just a lump of coal in their stockings. Discover the terrifying Yuletide fables that have horrified kids for... -
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature... -
Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism by Astrid Henry
RRP: £19.99£10.48"No matter how wise a mother's advice is, we listen to our peers." At least that's writer Naomi Wolf's take on the differences between her generation of feminists-the third wave-and the feminists who came before her and developed in the late '60s and... -
The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate by Brian Switek
RRP: £9.99£6.75Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In... -
Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory by Moishe Postone
RRP: £30.99£24.40Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by... -
Breaching the Citadel - The India Papers Urvashi Butalia 9789384757786
RRP: £27.00£22.88Breaching the Citadel, part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity... -
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger
RRP: £13.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073059Author Peter L. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Medieval Women and the Law by Noel James Menuge
RRP: £19.99£16.42Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside... -
How to Start Your Own Secret Society by Nick Harding 9781904048848
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed Natalie Fiennes 9780745338736
RRP: £9.99£6.80One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselves. Fear-mongering, moral panic and outdated... -
Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together by Francesco Guala 9780691171784
RRP: £35.00£27.74Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three... -
Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice Patricia Leavy 9781462520251
£39.04Exploring the breadth of contemporary feminist research practices, this engaging text immerses the reader in cutting-edge theories, methods, and practical strategies. Chapters review theoretical work and describe approaches to conducting quantitative,... -
Why Do We all Behave The Way We Do? by S. S. O ' Connor
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win - and yet we're so wrong? In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor once more uses his... -
How Did We Get To be So Different? by S. S. O'Connor
RRP: £10.99£7.77How is it we humans only arrived after 99.995% of the time there's been life on earth - and yet we're now so dominant? If mutations take generations to have an effect, how did we manage to change so completely in just a blink in time? And why were our... -
The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture John Clarke (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University) 9781529227680
RRP: £24.99£19.39This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of... -
Bauman: A Biography Izabela Wagner 9781509526864
RRP: £25.00£17.38Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular... -
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh
RRP: £25.00£15.26In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs--and explored the history behind them--and chronicled them in the popular blog series Unpublished Black History. The month-long series was... -
Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald
RRP: £17.49£15.51"Tomorrow's Table" argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and... -
The Universe, The Gods And Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this engrossing retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his profound knowledge of the subject with brilliant and original story-telling. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus,... -
The Normal Chaos of Love Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745613826
RRP: £17.99£16.04This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.About the AuthorUlrich... -
Sibling Therapy: The Ghosts from Childhood that Haunt Your Clients' Love and Work by Karen Gail Lewis
RRP: £27.49£23.20Siblings share a unique relationship: They have known each other longer than anyone else. No matter how close or distant siblings are today, they are part of each other. As adults, they actually are part of two sibling sets. The original siblings are the... -
Handbook of Victims and Victimology Sandra Walklate 9781138889460
RRP: £58.99£51.48This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within... -
Journalism and Crime by Bethany Usher 9781032022246
RRP: £35.99£31.69Through a critical, transdisciplinary approach, Journalism and Crime offers a chronological interrogation of crime journalism from its first origins in 16th century print, to a transatlantic phenomenon in the 19th century and through to the complex... -
Reflective Practice and Learning From Mistakes in Social Work Alessandro Sicora 9781447325222
RRP: £20.99£16.48Learning from professional errors in social work is vital for successful reflective practice. This important book presents a theoretical framework that underpins this learning, along with a series of strategies for social workers to use, including... -
Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation by Laura Miles
RRP: £10.00£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885833Author Laura MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class by Dean MacCannell 9780520280007
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The... -
Sociology for Business: A Practical Approach Martin Joseph (Formerly at Oxford Brookes University) 9780745604343
RRP: £18.99£16.87With material on changing occupational structures and business enterprises of the future, together with questions, case study and project material at the end of each chapter, Sociology for Business will be the most comprehensive and well organized book... -
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night by Anthony Haden-Guest
RRP: £16.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061723742Author Anthony Haden-GuestFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)...