Social Science

Wilderness Knits for the Home is Linka Neumann's second book, showcasing a stunning collection of homeware knits to make while embracing the Scandinavian spirit and cosying up next to a warm fire. After the success of Wilderness Knits, with...

Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite centuries of industry, ancient traditions have survived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641230209Author Michael FranzeseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Whitaker HousePublisher Whitaker HouseWeight(grams) 635g

One of Esquire's 20 Best Books of Fall * One of Time's Most Anticipated Books of Fall"A deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting history of human butts. Radke knows exactly when to approach her subject with levity and when with gravity. A...

Representative examples of swords from 8th-11th century, fully described and illustrated, with general overview. This beautifully illustrated work fills a gap in the literature in English on the swords made and used in northern Europe during the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR 'Incredibly moving and haunting' Roxane Gay'I read this book cover to cover and it stunned me' Jia Tolentino 'Powerful, honest and necessary' Marian Keyes'To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel...

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live-how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die-in this "engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and...

Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards expected nor control her pupils at Besley High School for girls. She knows that no other school will hire her now, but if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender Nonfiction) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781558618374Author Beatriz PreciadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Feminist...

A Book of the Year 2022 in The Economist and Daily Mail 'One of the most important non-fiction books of the year' - Sunday Times Boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading and science In the US, the...

***Laura Bates' new book Fix the System, Not the Women is out now in paperback*** 'A fascinating, mind-blowing and deeply intelligent book that should be recommended reading for every person on our planet' SCARLETT CURTIS'Laura Bates puts out books...

'A stunning and devastating indictment of a society scarred and defined by inequality, by one of the most charismatic and compelling voices in politics today' Owen Jones 'Faiza's work is living proof that you don't have to choose between focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371307Author Terence McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment,...

From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419565Author Gustave Le BonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger...

Originating from the Latin for deity or goddess, our concept of what a 'diva' might be - or should be - has evolved in richness and complexity. Delving into the personas of performers from Sarah Bernhardt to Rihanna, this book looks at what it has meant...

This informed and richly illustrated guidebook brings the ancient city of Akhetaten alive with a keen archaeological eye, drawing on ongoing archaeological research and the knowledge and insight of Amarna's modern-day communities and caretakers to...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was,...

Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has...

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME"The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.It began in a bedroom in Naples,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733328791Author Anthony RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Anthony RaymondPublisher Anthony RaymondWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This is the step-by-step doctrine men are taught: "Suck it up. Stuff it down. Pour a bottle of whiskey over the top. Rinse and repeat until sufficiently numbed." Men have traded in their internal leadership, sovereignty, and even masculinity, all in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915972Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 379g

Maria Sanchez is obsessed with what she cannot see. As a field veterinarian following in the footsteps of generations before her, she travels the countryside of Spain bearing witness to a life eroding before her eyes-words, practices, and people slipping...

'Anyone who can read should read this book' Maya Angelou'Estes points to storytelling, our ancient narratives, as a way for women to reconnect to the Wild Woman all women have within themselves, but have lost' Emma WatsonGo out in the woods, go out. If...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904263968Author Howard CrowhurstFormat PaperbackImprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksDimensions(mm) 155mm * 125mm * 7mm

Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn...

Discover the history, legends and folklore of Britain's most intriguing landmarks This beautifully illustrated book reveals the secrets and stories of fifty icons of Britain's landscape. Some are natural wonders, such as...

'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'So very important' NIGELLA LAWSON'Brilliantly alive' SUNDAY TIMES'A truly wonderful book. Read it' HENRY MARSH'Shows us the very best of human nature' ADAM KAY'Her words are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615776887Author Richard CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 758g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443255Author Jesselyn CookFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt...

Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of...

In the sleepy Avon village of Stanton Drew stand the forgotten remains of the third major neolithic temple complex of Southern Britain after Stonehenge and Avebury. In this guidebook to the site, packed with rare images, Stanton Drew boffin Gordon Strong...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who...