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Police Occupational Culture: Research and Practice Tom Cockcroft (Leeds Beckett University) 9781447337119
RRP: £21.99£17.21Taking an evidence-based approach to understanding police culture, this thorough and accessible book critically reviews existing research and offers new insights on theories and definitions. Tom Cockcroft, an authority on the subject, addresses a range... -
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science by Frank C. Keil
RRP: £33.00£28.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046497Author Frank C. KeilFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations by Saul Bernard Cohen
RRP: £78.00£69.48Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul... -
Interprofessional Social Work: Effective Collaborative Approaches by Anne Quinney 9781844453795
RRP: £35.99£29.51All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a... -
Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence by Paul Preston
£27.04"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul... -
A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 9781510775589
RRP: £19.99£9.86A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based scienceDemocrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how... -
Great Moments in Greek Archaeology by Vasileios Petrakos 9780892369102
RRP: £70.00£60.17This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging, yet detailed overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece - with contributions from both those who have excavated the sites and scholars who have spent a... -
Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm Simon A. Pemberton (School for Social Policy, University of Birmingham) 9781847427953
RRP: £26.99£20.84While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life. However, important aspects of this notion remain... -
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin
RRP: £23.99£20.84From electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing and prisons have rapidly expanded into nonjuridical domains, including hospitals, schools, banking, social... -
The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy Andrew Keen 9781857885200
RRP: £12.99£8.60A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which set the blogosphere and media alight on publication... -
Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics by Clifford Geertz
RRP: £32.00£24.76Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in... -
Society of Singularities Andreas Reckwitz 9781509534227
RRP: £35.00£31.27Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our... -
In In Defence of Separatism by Susan Hawthorne
RRP: £12.95£8.16In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of conversation among many feminists it was not welcomed by academics or publishers. When a political group wants to strategise so that... -
The Independent Woman by Simone De Beauvoir
RRP: £12.00£6.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563402Author Simone De BeauvoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 159mm... -
Rural Community Water Supply: Sustainable services for all by Richard C Carter
RRP: £20.95£15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788531658Author Richard C CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 450g -
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
RRP: £37.99£29.50Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity and wisdom. Van Loon's witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell
RRP: £15.99£13.16This is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. For ten years, "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the... -
Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy: The Short-Arse Years: Jason Byrne's Memoir by Jason Byrne
RRP: £17.99£14.02'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.' ... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085244
RRP: £30.00£27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085244Author Ben CliffordFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm -
The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse by Joanna Zylinska
RRP: £9.00£7.98Debugging the Anthropocene's insistence on apocalyptic tropes Where the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere,... -
The Norwegian Prison System: Halden Prison and Beyond Are Hoidal 9781032050775
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study. Since its opening in 2010, Halden has been recognized for its... -
Rock Art and Ritual: Interpreting the Prehistoric Landscapes of the North York Moors by Alan A. Walker 9780752446349
RRP: £25.00£18.54Following a devastating fire in 2003, an area of moorland above Robin Hoods Bay on the North Yorkshire coast was laid bare, revealing a fascinating and previously unrecorded landscape. The authors have spent hundreds of hours locating and plotting the... -
Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination by Vincent Michael Palamara
RRP: £25.99£17.37Thousands of books and articles have been written about the murder of JFK, many of which are large in volume and short on facts. Quite often, these works try to reinvent the wheel, attempting to cover every single area of the assassination, as well as... -
Young Onset Dementia: A Guide to Recognition, Diagnosis, and Supporting Individuals with Dementia and Their Families by Hilda Hayo
RRP: £22.99£21.96Providing key information and insight into the experiences of people living with a diagnosis of young onset dementia, this book will increase the knowledge and skills of health and social care professionals in the early recognition, diagnosis and support... -
Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation by Rochelle Almeida 9781498545884
RRP: £99.00£86.56Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between... -
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin 9781837651122
RRP: £29.99£24.83The definitive reference book on Ireland's cultural and religious heritage. Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are... -
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume II: The Time of Revelation and Tribulation Leading up to 2020 by Leo Lyon Zagami 9781888729627
RRP: £15.95£12.39After his master thesis of the secret societies network as outlined in volume 1, the Confessions of an Illuminati narrative of Leo Lyon Zagami is projected to the reality of today, including the occult maneuvers behind the New World Order. We need to... -
Social Work Reclaimed: Innovative Frameworks for Child and Family Social Work Practice by Karen Gaughan
RRP: £24.99£23.78Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) is a radical new system for delivering child and family social work in the UK. The system was first piloted in the London Borough of Hackney and the model has gained national recognition. At the heart of this innovative... -
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows by Roger Morgan-Grenville 9781785789526
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' DAILY MAIL'Tremendous ... We all need to take stock, and this is the ideal starting point. I learnt a lot from this book and laughed a lot too.' ROSAMUND YOUNG, author of The Secret Life of... -
Researching Business and Management by Harvey Maylor
£70.59This core textbook combines a highly engaging approach with academic rigour to guide students through understanding and using research methods. Now in its second edition, this text has been fully updated and revised throughout. With a focus that is fresh... -
The Legends of the Pyramids: Myths and Misconceptions about Ancient Egypt by Jason Colavito
RRP: £15.99£14.24Could the Great Pyramid of Giza be a repository of ancient magical knowledge? Or perhaps evidence of a vanished pre-Ice Age civilization? Misinformation and myths have attached themselves to the Egyptian pyramids since ancient Greece and Rome. While many... -
Gut Feminism by Elizabeth A. Wilson
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist... -
Critical Realism: Essential Readings by Prof. Roy Bhaskar
RRP: £58.99£52.08Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of... -
The Media Manifesto Natalie Fenton 9781509538065
RRP: £9.99£8.95Our media systems are in crisis. Run by unaccountable corporations and dominated by agendas and algorithms that are shrouded in mystery, these formerly trusted sources of information and entertainment have lost their way. As consumers, we have plenty of... -
Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: £18.99£13.61Between the interiors of the USA and Mexico lies a borderland: Amexica. A terrain astride the world's busiest frontier, teeming with migrants, factory workers, narcos, tourists, heroines and heroes, ranchers and rogues. A border both porous and harsh,... -
World Heritage Management and Human Rights Stener Ekern (University of Oslo, Norway) 9780367738907
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on the balance between protecting human rights and protecting world heritage sites. It concerns itself with the idea that the management of heritage properties worldwide may fail to adequately respect traditional entitlements and rights... -
Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style Nils Christie 9781138690127
RRP: £17.99£16.04Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our... -
History and Theory in Anthropology by Alan Barnard
RRP: £30.99£22.85In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on... -
Extractivisms: Politics, Economy and Ecology by Eduardo Gudynas 9781788530651
RRP: £18.95£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788530651Author Eduardo GudynasFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 300g -
Designing and Building Mini and Micro Hydro Power Schemes by Luis Rodriguez 9781853396465
RRP: £27.95£24.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396465Author Luis RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...