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Protestant Ethic and Other Writings by Max Weber
RRP: £14.99£10.95In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.About the... -
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
RRP: £10.99£6.75Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest... -
Think Like a Freak: Secrets of the Rogue Economist by Steven D. Levitt
RRP: £10.99£7.77In this Freak 'how-to' guide, the mavericks behind the Freakonomics phenomenon teach you their secrets: how to challenge conventional wisdom, unravel life's secret codes and think differently - that is, think like a Freak. Levitt and Dubner see the... -
Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: £21.00£20.31Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can... -
It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
RRP: £10.99£7.51It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The... -
Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland by Sara Sheridan
RRP: £9.99£6.79For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at Scotland's heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light. Can... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
2020: A Reckoning by Eric Klinenberg 9781847926937
RRP: £25.00£17.62Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of... -
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and Lacan, as well as frequent references to popular... -
Template Analysis for Business and Management Students by Nigel King 9781473911574
RRP: £30.99£29.23In Template Analysis, Nigel King and Joanna Brookes guide you through the origins of template analysis and its place in qualitative research, its basic components, and the main strengths and limitations of this method. Practical case studies and examples... -
Neglected by Cathy Glass
RRP: £7.99£5.73Little Jamey, 21/2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out... -
Community Work: Theory into Practice by Karen McArdle 9781447365327
RRP: £28.99£22.29Written by community workers from diverse contexts, this highly accessible guide equips practitioners and students working in a range of community settings to make the best use of theory in their work. The book focuses on the hope, excitement and... -
Roman Gloucestershire by Tim Copeland 9780752457833
RRP: £22.50£16.79This long-awaited new work offers an examination of the area now known as Gloucestershire in the later Iron Age and Roman periods. The last substantial book to consider this area and period was published in 1981; much has been discovered in the... -
Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions: Making Difficult Life and Work Decisions by Elisabeth Shaw
RRP: £49.99£47.70How do we, as humans, arrive at what we call morally or ethically good or bad decisions? What processes are involved in making ethical decisions? Is there a way to move towards ethical maturity and how will being ethically mature assist us with any... -
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts 9781541619647
RRP: £14.99£8.54From the powerhouse author of? The Memo, the essential self-help book for women of color to heal-and thrive-in the workplace In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
RRP: £20.00£15.64Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things).One of the chapters, for example, answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best, because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland,... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780393929744
£14.28Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat is language?Why do we have it?Why does that... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: £12.99£8.56History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
Moving beyond Words: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender by Gloria Steinem 9780671510527
£16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671510527Author Gloria SteinemFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 152mm *... -
Supervision for Forensic Practitioners by Jason Davies 9781138687837
RRP: £45.99£40.13Forensic practitioners work in a diverse range of settings, with a wide variety of groups and with a large number of agencies. Their work, whilst rewarding, is challenging, demanding and often undertaken in highly stressful situations. Ensuring that the... -
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home by Ruth Emond
RRP: £22.99£17.76A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.It describes relevant theories, the 'invisible' psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and... -
Where Did I Go Right?: How the Left Lost Me by Geoff Norcott
RRP: £14.99£13.45*** 'Few people walk the line of thought provoking and laugh out loud funny like Geoff Norcott.' - Romesh Ranganathan 'Where Did I Go Right? is sharp, considered, insightful, and helped me make sense of "the other side". And because Geoff... -
Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Marriage: Squaring the Circle by Clare Herbert
RRP: £22.99£21.96A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church. Clare Herbert draws on her experience as a priest within the Church of England in a committed same-sex relationship and considers the questions that... -
Exhale: A Self Care Coloring Book - Celebrating Black Women, Brown Women and Good Vibes by Latoya Nicole 9781734879742
RRP: £8.42£7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734879742Author Latoya NicoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Precise Publishing Inc.Publisher Precise Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin
RRP: £23.99£19.19The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race... -
The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts by Avi Brisman
RRP: £43.99£39.44A comprehensive one-stop reference text, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the 'Companion') will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic. Comprising over a hundred... -
Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice by Dr Val Thomas 9781922956484
£23.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922956484Author Dr Val ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Ocean Reeve PublishingPublisher Ocean Reeve PublishingWeight(grams) 545gDimensions(mm)... -
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction Rosemarie Tong 9780367857936
RRP: £35.99£31.69A classic resource on feminist theory, this updated sixth edition of Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction offers a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory.This new edition explores in... -
Love That Journey For Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt's Creek by Emily Garside 9781912489343
RRP: £7.50£4.94Love That Journey For Me dives deep into the cultural sensation of Canadian comedy-drama Schitt's Creek. Considering the fusion of existing sitcom traditions, references and tropes, this Inkling analyses the nuance of the show and its surrounding... -
Mutant Message Down Under: A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia by Marlo Morgan
RRP: £9.99£6.64"Mutant Message Down Under" is the gripping fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month long... -
The Lore of Scotland: A guide to Scottish legends by Sophia Kingshill
RRP: £12.99£9.09Scotland's rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs, and in The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill bring together many of the finest and most intriguing: stories of heroes and bloody... -
Fostering for Adoption: Our story and the stories of others by Alice Hill
RRP: £19.99£17.61For anyone considering or going through Fostering for Adoption, this book gives you a detailed, personal account of the process which takes you through all the stages and prepares you to cope with the highs and lows. Fostering for Adoption is a... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos 9781800699144
RRP: £14.99£9.80Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of... -
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: £25.00£18.02As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to... -
Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (Wspu), 1904-18 by Krista Cowman
RRP: £19.99£16.42This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. Whilst the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing... -
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery 9780300102222
RRP: £13.99£12.25What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth... -
Mary Robinson and the Gothic by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781009160872
RRP: £17.00£14.72Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles,... -
The Secret Terrorists: (the responsables of the Assassination of Lincoln, the Sinking of Titanic, the world trade center and more with good content information) by Bill Hughes
RRP: £14.99£14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087931364Author Bill HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm