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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn
RRP: £25.00£19.59Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to... -
The Real Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Story of Jerome Caminada by Angela Buckley
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013529Author Angela BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pen and Sword Social HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword Social HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis by Deborah Potts
RRP: £21.99£19.28From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in... -
In-dependence From Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley - Defying the Idoeological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations Lloyd D. McCarthy 9781592214655
RRP: £21.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214655Author Lloyd D. McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 294g -
Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France by Louise Tythacott 9780367432782
RRP: £43.99£38.44In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site... -
Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt by Jayaseelan Raj 9781800082281
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082281Author Jayaseelan RajFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g -
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri 9780299162146
RRP: £29.95£27.32Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal... -
Caribbean Mothers: Identity and Experience in the U.K. by Tracey Reynolds 9781872767529
RRP: £14.95£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872767529Author Tracey ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Tufnell PressPublisher Tufnell PressWeight(grams) 336g -
Organising Care Around Patients: Stories from the Frontline of the NHS by Naomi Chambers
RRP: £30.00£21.31Organising care around patients is not for the fainthearted. Naomi Chambers and Jeremy Taylors have curated twenty-five accounts from people who agreed to tell the story of what happened when they or their loved ones came into contact with the NHS. The... -
The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays by Siegfried Kracauer
RRP: £41.95£34.00Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern society make their long-awaited appearance in English... -
Prehistoric Britain Joshua Pollard (University of Bristol) 9781405125468
RRP: £30.95£27.85Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age. Offers... -
The Atlantic Iron Age: Settlement and Identity in the First Millennium BC by Jon Henderson
RRP: £43.99£38.84It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never been clearly defined.With this book, Jon Henderson provides... -
Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang by Scott M. Deitche
RRP: £30.00£26.68In the mid-1970s, there were a series of gangland murders, committed by unknown killers, often wielding .22-caliber revolvers. At first these murders seemed unconnected, but law enforcement started noticing links to organized crime and by 1978, federal... -
Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers Cara Courage (UK) 9781800713895
RRP: £17.99£13.22Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4's The Archers. A whole section of the book is devoted to 'The Fall of... -
Values in Heritage Practice: Creative Activities for Curators, Consultants, Facilitators, Teachers and Leaders by Kate Clark 9781789203004
RRP: £27.95£22.58Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and old buildings, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? How do we make the case for heritage when there are... -
Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Paula Delgado-Kling 9781682194478
RRP: £17.99£12.30Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC... -
Criminal & Behavioral Profiling by Curtis R. Bartol 9781412983082
RRP: £76.00£67.64Do your students understand the job of a "criminal profiler"? Yes, they see them nightly on tv shows and in the news, but do they have a real understanding of how law enforcement can use empirical data to correctly assess behavior and help solve crimes,... -
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking Simon Weaver 9781138624665
RRP: £43.99£38.44In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and... -
Ironmaking: The History and Archaeology of the British Iron Industry by Richard Hayman
RRP: £18.99£14.32Iron was the catalyst of the Industrial Revolution - the material of Ironbridge, the Crystal Palace, railways, steam engines ships. But what made it so important and why did Britain become the major producer of iron in the world? The iron industry sucked... -
The Phenomenon of the Human Distress Pattern: Our only Real Enemy by Micheline Mason
£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424755Author Micheline MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications -
Crime Control and Community Gordon Hughes (Cardiff University) 9781903240540
RRP: £135.00£117.68Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together... -
The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power by Ben Little
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders of US West Coast tech companies, addressing their collective power, influence, and ideology, their group dynamics, and the role they play in the wider sociocultural and political... -
Social Work and Dementia: Good Practice and Care Management by Margaret-Anne Tibbs
RRP: £27.99£27.23A practical resource written specifically for social care professionals working with people with dementia and their families, this book gives guidance on person-centred good practice throughout the care process from the initial diagnosis, through day... -
The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - And Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl
RRP: £9.99£6.80__________If you live on planet Earth, you're probably scared about the future.Terrorism, complicated international relations, global warming, killer viruses and a raft of other issues make it hard not to be.Watching the news you have to wonder: is it... -
Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: £22.99£20.01From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers'... -
The Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Michael Hagemeister
RRP: £49.99£43.50The Perennial Conspiracy Theory is a collection of essays on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document which has created a pernicious antisemitic conspiracy theory.The author analyses the murky origins of this notorious forgery and the... -
Working for the Clampdown: The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk by Colin Coulter
RRP: £25.00£22.03This volume brings together a range of writers from different academic disciplines and different locations to provide an engaging and accessible critical exploration of one of the most revered and reviled bands in the history of popular music. The essays... -
Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review by Raymond Williams
£31.34Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual... -
Key Debates in Anthropology by Tim Ingold 9780415150200
RRP: £47.99£41.81Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four... -
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta R. Krippner
RRP: £22.95£18.38In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In Capitalizing on Crisis, Greta Krippner traces the longer-term historical evolution that... -
The City of London: A Masonic Guide by Yasha Beresiner 9780853182542
£16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853182542Author Yasha BeresinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic -
Film Theory Goes to the Movies: Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film by Jim Collins
RRP: £36.99£32.53Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as TheSilence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator... -
Dying Right: The Death with Dignity Movement Daniel Hillyard 9780415927994
RRP: £43.99£38.44Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's... -
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
RRP: £17.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316449861Author Lindy WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 138mm *... -
Just Looking: upstream and downstream by Pat Williams
RRP: £11.99£8.43Each topic is a gem of brilliant writing from a master storyteller. By turns delightful, thought provoking, funny and packed with stories and observations about life's vagaries.About the AuthorPat Williams was founder-director of the London College of... -
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion by Annie Finch
RRP: £29.99£20.27A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection... -
The Global Police State by William I Robinson
£20.59As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson... -
Participatory practice: Community-based action for transformative change by Margaret Ledwith
£24.51In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors' unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall 9781009098755
RRP: £39.99£34.23Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains... -
Waiting 'til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083354Author Peniel E JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 394g