Social Science

From the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged, the gripping story of a woman caught in a horrific cycle of abuse - and the desperate lengths she must go to, to escape. When Aisha spots an ad for a 'personal introductory...

Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933167541Author Mark HatalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Greentop Academic PressPublisher Greentop Academic PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...

THE BEST-SELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK IN HISTORY______________________The shocking true story of the Tate-LaBianca murders, revealed in this harrowing, terrifying book penned by the prosecutor who finally put Charles Manson behind bars. Helter Skelter won a...

'Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - PANDORA SYKES 'Excellent' - NOVARA MEDIA 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.' THE TIMES ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED,...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the...

The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots...

'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714508795Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714527581Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

The New York Times-dubbed "Martha Stewart for Macabre Homemakers," Aurelio Voltaire, presents the definitive guide to revamping your sanctuary to match your eerie vibe. Are you ready to embrace your dark side? In Gothic Life, Aurelio Voltaire shows you...

Audrey Hepburn: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Audrey Hepburn, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess.From Sabrina to Breakfast at Tiffany's, Audrey Hepburn is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947290938Author Alan R WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916025820Author David IckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint David Icke BooksPublisher David Icke BooksDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 51mm

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital...

The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. 'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to...

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533403Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify...

'An evocative, endearing, entertaining and thoroughly delicious character portrait and a terrific first novel' - Donal MacIntyre, TV presenter'A tender, thought-provoking and totally gripping novel from a wonderful storyteller...deserves to be a huge...

Holy Motherforking Shirtballs! The madly popular sitcom The Good Place, has propelled ethics and moral philosophy into the 21st century mainstream. The story of Eleanor Shellstrop, who has accidentally been sent to the Good Place after her death,...

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of...

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought...

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 Sunday Times best books for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick for Autumn 2020 Wall Street Journal notable book of 2020 The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHow can we make it easier to be happy? Using the latest cutting-edge research, Professor Paul Dolan reveals that wellbeing isn't about how we think - it's about what we do. By making deliberate choices that bring us both...

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses. * Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process*...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789187611360Author Christer HolmgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Timaios PressPublisher Timaios PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

Explore the incredible work of the Lord in the hearts and lives of women in the Muslim world! In these gripping stories of Christ's presence straight from the underground church, Pastor Tom Doyle and his wife, JoAnn, show you how women in Saudi Arabia,...

A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as...

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This revised and expanded Third Edition of the internationally acclaimed Criminological Perspectives is the most comprehensive reader available in the field. Wide-ranging and global in scope and coverage, Criminological Perspectives will enable you to...

In this classic work of psychology John Bowlby examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children provide us with a recognizable behaviour pattern which is confirmed by discoveries in the...

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an...

IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white working-class men have turned their backs on the left in...

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focuses...

A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and...

A macabre, spectacular and thought-provoking survey of human remains used in decorative, commemorative or devotional contexts across the world today, from the author of Heavenly Bodies and The Empire of Death. Memento Mori takes the reader on a...

As seen on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire ShowAs heard on The Jeremy Vine ShowThink you've got a dysfunctional family?Meet mine.For 18 years, my family lived a normal life in a respectable suburb...Until one day, my dad gave up his successful career, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770798Author Norman BarronFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm