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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers 9781501125423
RRP: £18.99£11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501125423Author Christina Hoff SommersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Journalism Studies: The Basics by Martin Conboy
RRP: £19.99£17.69Journalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboy's extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its... -
How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish Anne Schwan 9780745329802
RRP: £24.99£19.39Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading... -
Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for good by David R Samson 9781804440735
RRP: £20.00£14.05An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism - and how we can learn to harness this powerful instinct to improve the world around us What do you think of when you hear the word tribalism? For many, it conjures images of bigotry,... -
Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds by Mark Stephens
RRP: £50.00£45.59This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume is examination of Iron Age burials, which included chariots, swords, and spears, along with inclusion of earlier Prehistoric and... -
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black by R. A. Judy
RRP: £27.99£25.14In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham's 1937 remark "we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in... -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: £8.99£5.82This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically. We are... -
Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions by Henrietta L. Moore 9780745636467
RRP: £17.99£15.94How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather... -
The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn
RRP: £19.99£17.61The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.The history of... -
The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
£9.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751663Author Neil PostmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Prisoner of Infinity: UFOs, Social Engineering, and the Psychology of Fragmentation by Jasun Horsley
RRP: £22.50£21.77A text examining modern-day accounts of UFOs, alien abductions and psychism, to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering. Whether it is the forces of... -
Non Stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood 9781846945304
RRP: £6.99£5.87In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep... -
Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today's Teenagers Need to Have About Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More by Shafia Zaloom
£13.62The only sex education book you need to start a conversation with your kids about sexual harassment, consent, #metoo, and moreBeing a teen in today's world can be hard. Raising a healthy, aware, and sex-positive teen can be even more of a challenge. When... -
Handbook of Criminal Investigation Tim Newburn (London School of Economics, UK London School of Economics, UK) 9781843921875
RRP: £61.99£54.61This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies... -
The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society by Richard Borshay Lee
RRP: £37.99£34.83For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the... -
The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life by Jeffrey Weeks
RRP: £45.99£40.13The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our... -
Somerset Folk Tales by Sharon Jacksties 9780752463339
RRP: £12.99£10.38These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with a strong sense of the land and the waters that shaped them, reflect our enduring interest in the natural landscape. Let these stories from the Summer Lands take you on a journey: across wind-wild moors... -
Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship by Andrea Dyrness 9781517906306
RRP: £20.99£18.37Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make... -
The Incas Terence N. D'Altroy (Columbia University) 9781444331158
RRP: £27.95£24.65The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690223
RRP: £17.99£16.04We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton
RRP: £35.00£23.02Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume... -
Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives by Sonia Livingstone
RRP: £25.99£19.04In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia... -
Working with Vulnerable Children, Young People and Families by Graham Brotherton
RRP: £36.99£32.53This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and society. It includes new chapters on children's... -
Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan by Gerald Figal
RRP: £22.99£20.01Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional... -
The Lost Tomb of King Arthur: The Search for Camelot and the Isle of Avalon by Graham Phillips 9781591431817
RRP: £14.99£12.70One of the most enigmatic figures in world history, King Arthur has been the subject of many fantastical tales over the past 1500 years, leading many scholars to regard him and his fabled city of Camelot simply as myth. But, as Graham Phillips shows... -
Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture by Vron Ware
RRP: £28.00£27.39What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make when whites act in a manner that contradicts their designated racial identity? This study considers these... -
What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? by Alan McKee 9781032140339
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers.For policy makers and the wider public it can be difficult to obtain a clear... -
Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral 1988-1997 by Stephen T. Driscoll
RRP: £37.99£33.78In 1988 extensive archaeological investigations began at Glasgow Cathedral revealing evidence for the first cathedral built in 1136 and subsequent 12th century phases.Book InformationISBN 9781902653662Author Stephen T. DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
We Travelled: Essays and Poems by David Hare
RRP: £12.99£7.12'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics, this is a powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time. The... -
Doing Reflexivity: An Introduction Jon Dean (Sheffield Hallam University) 9781447330851
RRP: £29.99£23.02Reflexivity is vital in social research projects, but there remains relatively little advice on how to execute it in practice. This book provides social science researchers with both a strong rationale for the importance of thinking reflexively and a... -
COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective by Ritu Gill 9783030948276
RRP: £69.99£38.55The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and... -
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £33.00£26.61When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and... -
Research Design and Methods: An Applied Guide for the Scholar-Practitioner by Gary J Burkholder 9781544342382
RRP: £76.00£67.64Research Design and Methods: An Applied Guide for the Scholar-Practitioner is written for students seeking advanced degrees who want to use evidence-based research to support their practice. This practical and accessible text addresses the foundational... -
Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Eyal Press 9781250024084
RRP: £16.00£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024084Author Press EyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose by Thom van Dooren
RRP: £20.99£18.37The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Fake News? by Nick Anstead
RRP: £11.99£9.70Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world? Drawing on examples and evidence from around... -
Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts by Andrew Edgar 9780415399395
RRP: £22.99£20.16Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This second edition includes new entries on: colonialismcybercultur globalisation... -
Theory and Methods in Social Research by Bridget Somekh 9781849200158
RRP: £44.99£36.99This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, enabling postgraduate and masters-level students and new researchers to reflect on which ones suit their needs... -
Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss by Jill A. Harrington
RRP: £32.99£29.16Superhero Grief uses modern superhero narratives to teach the principles of grief theories and concepts and provide practical ideas for promoting healing. Chapters offer clinical strategies, approaches, and interventions, including strategies based in... -
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £23.99£20.01In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's...