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The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience Emma Slade Edmondson 9780008481674
RRP: $25.80$17.21The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole will explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed race experience, creating a space for discussion and... -
Know Justice, Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram by Deborah Threadgill Egerton, PhD
$22.10A first-of-its-kind guide to social justice through the lens of the Enneagram--a popular personality typing system--that shows how people can use their particular type to work on issues such as antiracism and homophobia.Know Justice Know Peace is a... -
A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them by Neil Bradbury 9780008484583
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs As... -
Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country by Angela Smith 9780810888340
RRP: $65.79$58.08In 1942, drummer Viola Smith sent shock waves through the jazz world by claiming in Down Beat magazine that "hep girls" could sit in on any jam session and hold their own. In Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country, Angela Smith... -
Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad by Brett Martin
RRP: $19.34$12.64In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's inventiveness, emotional resonance and ambition. Shows such as The Wire,... -
The Great Pyramid Hoax: The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt by Scott Creighton 9781591437895
RRP: $16.76$10.55Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of... -
Promote the Dog Sitter: And Other Principles for Leading during Disasters by Edward L Conley 9781544534152
RRP: $20.63$13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544534152Author Edward L ConleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Permanent Racism: Race, Class and the Myth of Postracial Britain by Paul Warmington 9781447360179
RRP: $32.24$25.01Racism has no place in our society, we are told. In fact, its role is crucial but today public debate on race in Britain is constrained by a facile postracialism. Its features are colourblind narratives, an ‘anti-antiracist’ discourse and erasure of... -
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $9.02$6.62Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
RRP: $12.89$9.17*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesIf you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $14.18$10.02The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan... -
Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young 9781250835475
RRP: $25.80$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250835475Author Daniella Mestyanek YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
Wall and Piece by "Banksy" 9781844137879
RRP: $21.92$17.13Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad
RRP: $25.80$18.43'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization... -
21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox
RRP: $14.18$9.64'Glorious - funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane'A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' GuardianLonglisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 201821st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family... -
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin 9780752809328
RRP: $11.60$8.00The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the worldFor 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future.The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells... -
No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia 'A powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and... -
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
RRP: $28.38$20.67A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2023. A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2023. One of History Workshop's 'Radical... -
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) by Anthony Bateman 9781108816274
RRP: $45.14$39.33A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the treatment of mental health disorders. Featuring an... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780241436288
RRP: $7.73$5.75'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a... -
Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't by L. David Marquet
RRP: $21.92$15.84'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' - ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeFT Book of the MonthYour words matter more than you thinkMost of us use the language we inherited from a... -
Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie
RRP: $15.47$10.32Charged with possibility and power, this memorable collection is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore. Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from... -
Never Let Go: How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness by Suzanne Alderson
RRP: $21.92$15.84How to help your child with mental illness through partnering, not parenting.Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child... -
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition: Knowledge and Theory by Joyce Lishman
RRP: $42.56$35.23This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.It outlines the theories that underpin... -
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the... -
Noises After Dark: Memoirs of a Doctor in East Africa by John Tomlinson 9781803137070
RRP: $12.89$9.17"When I went to medical school, I never dreamt, that as a doctor, one day the biggest contribution I would make to people's health, would be to hand out plastic sheets and blankets under armed guard." Moved by the devastating media coverage of the... -
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective by Arjun Appadurai 9780521357265
RRP: $34.82$27.14The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of... -
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
RRP: $16.76$10.94Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred... -
A Million Ways to Stay on the Run: The uncut story of the international manhunt for public enemy no.1 Kenny Noye by Donal MacIntyre
RRP: $12.89$9.17No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye; a man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the GBP125 million (current value) Brink's... -
The Lost World Of The Kalahari: With 'The Great and the Little Memory' by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: $14.18$10.02Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... -
Drawing by Dr Curie Scott 9781838673284
RRP: $20.63$15.34Drawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Yet many of us laid aside drawing - or more simply, mark-making - in childhood, thereby losing a rich and... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: $16.76$12.51Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief - a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: 'Passionate and deeply moving... when Preston writes about... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780141441252
RRP: $12.89$9.17Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... -
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
RRP: $12.89$9.17Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf'It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and... -
Kurdish Women's Stories by Houzan Mahmoud
RRP: $21.92$14.89'A fascinating, inspiring journey' - Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s,... -
Blessed Names and Attributes of Allah by Abdur Raheem Kidwai
RRP: $12.89$8.71Remembering the Names of Allah is a sacred tradition in Islam. Both the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet (ahadith) state the importance of learning them and promise reward for reciting them in supplications and prayers. "Allah's are the names most... -
Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and me, the untold truth by Peter Thorley
RRP: $11.60$8.3210 Rillington Place: the house of death.John Reginald Halliday Christie and Timothy John Evans were hanged after a series of brutal murders in the 1940s and 1950s.But should they both have been executed?The sole survivor who grew up with Christie and... -
The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge by Patrick Wright
RRP: $24.50$17.74Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up... -
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction by Johann Hari
RRP: $14.18$9.69THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN 'A powerful contribution to an urgent debate' GUARDIAN ... -
Feminism: Issues and Arguments by Jennifer Mather Saul
RRP: $47.72$45.03A stimulating and accessible introduction to feminist philosophy. The chapters are organised around key issues of practical significance, such as pornography, abortion and sexual harassment. Clear arguments are provided for a variety of feminist...