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Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal by Joseph Campbell
RRP: $18.71$15.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681099Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
A Little Book of Tobacco: Activities to Explore Smoking Issues with Young People by Vanessa Rogers
RRP: $19.34$18.95For many young people, smoking is everywhere - people on television and in films smoke, their parents might smoke, and many of their friends will probably smoke. If everyone else is doing it, why shouldn't they?This resource is packed with activities... -
Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds by Colin McFarlane
RRP: $38.70$30.04Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. Fragments of the City examines the fragments themselves, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
RRP: $19.34$15.71What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
Psychedelics and Spirituality: The Sacred Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation by Thomas B. Roberts
RRP: $19.34$16.54Reveals how psychedelics can facilitate spiritual development and direct encounters with the sacred * With contributions by Albert Hofmann, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, Charles Tart, Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, Brother David Steindl-Rast, and many others... -
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
RRP: $20.63$18.34Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks"An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . ... -
Embedding Young People's Participation in Health Services: New Approaches Simon Stones 9781447351207
RRP: $32.24$25.01There is increasing interest in young people's participation in the design and delivery of health services. But young people's views are not consistently sought or acknowledged, and they are still often marginalised in healthcare encounters. Drawing on... -
Hallyu!: The Korean Wave by Rosalie Kim
RRP: $38.70$31.18South Korea has transformed from a country devastated by war in the late 1950s to a leading cultural powerhouse of the 21st century. Through the voices of fans, journalists, practitioners, novelists and academics, Hallyu! explores the makings of the... -
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
RRP: $23.22$15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973240Author Kate BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive Bruce Schneier (Counterpane Internet Security) 9781118143308
RRP: $27.09$18.52In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining... -
Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future by Pamela L. Geller 9780812220056
RRP: $30.95$26.88Bringing together distinguished scholars and original voices from anthropology's diverse subfields, Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future probes critical issues in the study of gender, sex, and sexuality. Contributors offer significant... -
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 5th Edition by Gloria Anzaldua
$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951874025Author Gloria AnzalduaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India by Michael Levien 9780190859169
RRP: $40.62$30.24Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against "land grabs." Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound transformation in the political economy of land dispossession. While... -
Voice from the South by Anna Cooper 9780486805634
RRP: $5.15$4.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486805634Author Anna CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 128gDimensions(mm)... -
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality by Sarah Ahmed
RRP: $61.91$53.93Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we... -
The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation: Livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development Marcus Taylor 9781138237346
RRP: $61.91$53.93This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that we... -
Radio Drama by Tim Crook
RRP: $46.43$40.88Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how... -
Professionalism: The Third Logic by Eliot Freidson 9780745603315
RRP: $24.50$21.76Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy... -
Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America by Nick Witham 9780226826998
RRP: $25.80$25.03Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history. What's the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical... -
Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $14.18$9.52Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more... -
Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data by Herbert J. Rubin 9781412978378
RRP: $98.04$86.74Using in-depth qualitative interviews, authors Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin have researched topics ranging from community redevelopment programs to the politics of budgeting and been energized by the depth, thoroughness, and credibility of what... -
English Orchards: A Landscape History by Gerry Barnes 9781914427190
$50.66Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connection... -
Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
RRP: $16.76$11.04'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . . . a brilliant, heart-rending read.' Psychologies MagazineBrown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin,... -
Healthy No Matter What: How Humans Are Hardwired to Adapt by Alex Jadad
RRP: $29.67$20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240823Author Alex JadadFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian KeyesWINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014The bestselling novel about beauty,... -
Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter 9780262522793
RRP: $46.44$29.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522793Author Jay David BolterFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *... -
The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology by Robert A. Francis 9781032043944
RRP: $56.75$50.10The Handbook provides a supporting guide to key aspects and applications of landscape ecology to underpin its research and teaching. A wide range of contributions written by expert researchers in the field summarize the latest knowledge on landscape... -
The Queeriodic Table: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Culture by Harriet Dyer
RRP: $12.89$8.77Celebrate the richness of modern queer culture and its vast history with this fascinating introduction to all the essential elements that helped sculpt the LGBTQ+ community up to the present day, including:- the amazing stories of queer pioneers like... -
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism by Martin Arboleda
RRP: $25.79$21.18Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system... -
When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories by Daniel Ruiz-Serna 9781478019503
RRP: $27.08$23.70Daniel Ruiz-Serna examines how the devastation caused by war impacts nonhuman inhabitants in the forests and rivers in the traditional lands of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples.About the AuthorDaniel Ruiz-Serna is Lecturer of Anthropology at Dawson... -
Texts, Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling by Dorothy E. Smith
RRP: $61.91$53.93'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip... -
Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis by Darcy White
RRP: $42.56$35.11In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet. This anthology... -
This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals by Erica Buist 9781800181397
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She... -
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg 9780385349949
RRP: $36.12$21.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385349949Author Sheryl SandbergFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 243mm... -
Domestic Violence and Protecting Children: New Thinking and Approaches by Cathy Humphreys
RRP: $36.11$35.13In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection. This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have... -
JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L Fletcher Prouty 9781616082918
RRP: $21.87$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616082918Author L Fletcher ProutyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Sociology of Health and Medicine: A Critical Introduction by Ellen Annandale
RRP: $29.66$26.01Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social CareThe fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the... -
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein
RRP: $18.05$14.65In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's ground-breaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: $23.21$20.69The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has...