Social Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148949Author Kristiina KoskentolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064558Author John PotashFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Winner of the 2022 James Beard Book Award A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022 Selected as one of the 25 Best Cookbooks of 2022 in Delicious Magazine Nominated for the 2022 Spirited Awards This is the forgotten history of women making,...

Radio 4's The Food Programme Book of the Year, chosen by Dan Saladino An Irish Times Best Gardening Book 2023 Shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild's Garden Book of the Year Award 2023 Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023 'If you're a...

Returning in its third edition, this celebrated and handy pocketbook provides key advice for busy social work practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Health Act. The practitioner and student will find this guide...

Social work research often focuses on qualitative designs and many students believe that the quantitative research pathway is either too complicated or is beyond their grasp. This book outlines how social work students can undertake a research project...

Seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain in ad 43, Londinium was created. It would rise to become one of the most important Roman cities in Northern Europe. Life in Roman London approaches the history of Roman London in an entirely new way. Rather...

Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. They Call It Love investigates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061953378Author Peter SchweizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans...

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and...

The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the...

Are you a practitioner, supervisor, practice educator, mentor or university tutor supporting students who are struggling on, or failing, their practice placement? Here is the practical guidance you need. Jo Finch draws on both her own experience...

A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year'Essential reading' - The Guardian'Sharp and witty with moments of startling...

'Where have all my friends gone?'When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man.He quickly learned that he wasn't the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless...

Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034254Author Muriel EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389996Author Johan HuizingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, bestselling author of The Dark Side of the Mind'Honest, shocking and funny' - Barbara Machin, creator of Waking...

"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered...

'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local. Anna Jones is insightful but above all sensitive: we walk in...

This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her...

The sequel to the bestselling memoir Blood, Sweat & Tea. Tom Reynolds is an ambulance worker. On any given day he can be attacked by strangers, sworn at by motorists, puked on, covered in blood and other much more unpleasant...

WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAMAnd an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones'One of the great no-holds-barred life-adventures in the wilds of the British landscape.' ADAM NICOLSONWritten on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572241282Author SteketeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint New Harbinger PublicationsPublisher New Harbinger Publications

Bang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and Afghanistan The 100 military, medical, religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups 'they' really don't want you to know about: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780944092699Author Leon F. LitwakFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Twin Palms...

London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn...

For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it's much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of lifestyles, ethnic groups,...

The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business executives-Carlos Ghosn-a remarkable story of innovation, hubris, alleged crimes, and daring international escape, as chronicled by two Wall Street...

A comprehensive guide to the ancient beliefs and spiritual power of subterranean spaces * Examines in depth the myths, symbology, deities, and beliefs connected to the underworld from many different cultures and mystery traditions * Investigates the role...

Jesus is never absent. You are never alone. When world events feel chaotic and scary … When you feel crippled by fear and anxiety … When you feel hurt by the very people you thought you could count on … It’s tempting to wonder “Jesus, are you here? Do...

The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian...

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs...

Explore significant archaeological discoveries pertaining to every book of the Bible.Laypersons, pastors, students, academics, and anyone looking for a current and comprehensive biblical archaeology resource need look no further. The Zondervan Handbook...

All forms of recreational digital consumption - whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs - have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time...

First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.About the AuthorMary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History...

"An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts."-Ira Glass Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters...

THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be human.Taking the life of Charles Darwin as his context, Robert Wright brilliantly demonstrates how Darwin's ideas have stood the...

ROSAMUND'S LATEST BOOK THE WISDOM OF SHEEP & OTHER ANIMALS IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW***A Sunday Times bestseller******A Times Book of the Year 2017***WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.'...