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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie
RRP: £12.99£8.60Recognised as 'The first truly definitive English-language study of this myth-laden subject and a pleasure to read' (Sunday Times) COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood... -
Mr Finchley Takes the Road by Victor Canning
RRP: £8.99£6.13Mr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so she goes to visit her brother, while he sets out to explore the countryside and go house-hunting. While... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: £12.99£8.60The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this... -
This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year by Andrew Doig
RRP: £10.99£7.12A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist 'Full of curious facts' The Times Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of... -
Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1: AS and 1st-Year A Level by Ken Browne 9781509516216
RRP: £12.99£11.94The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and... -
Aunt Branwell and the Bront Legacy by ,Nick Holland 9781526722232
RRP: £12.99£9.09Elizabeth Branwell was born in Penzance in 1770, a member of a large and influential Cornish family of merchants and property owners. In 1821 her life changed forever when her sister Maria fell dangerously ill. Leaving her comfortable life behind,... -
Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £10.99£7.77Real life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions: a real-life action thriller oozing with money, sex and some extremely dodgy dealing... Cheating in casinos is illegal;... -
The Hare and the Moon: A Calendar of Paintings by Catherine Hyde
RRP: £15.00£11.36An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world. Waking from the winter solstice a hare... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender,... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.11Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most spectacular things ' Sheena Patel, Observer'- A new... -
Talking With Bereaved People: An Approach for Structured and Sensitive Communication by Dodie Graves
RRP: £22.99£21.96It can be hard to know what to talk about with a bereaved person over a period of time once you have offered your condolences. This book shows how, by using good active listening skills, empathic exploration and a willingness to talk about the hard... -
Little Book of Givenchy: The story of the iconic fashion house by Karen Homer 9781780972770
RRP: £13.99£9.61"It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour" - Hubert de GivenchyEver since Audrey Hepburn stood outside Tiffany's, croissant in hand, Givenchy has been the last word in elegant couture. The clean,... -
Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.48Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his... -
Sociology: A Very Short Introduction by Steve Bruce 9780198822967
RRP: £8.99£6.45Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role... -
Stop People Pleasing by Patrick King 9789388247146
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388247146Author Patrick KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Embassy BooksPublisher Embassy BooksDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
I Can Hear the Cuckoo: Life in the Wilds of Wales by Kiran Sidhu
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A beautiful and poetic meditation on loss, nature, and what matters in life.' - Nigel WarburtonFrom the BAFTA award-winning writer of The New Yorker short film, Heart ValleyKiran Sidhu never thought she could leave London, but when her mother passes... -
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice by Colin Renfrew
RRP: £40.00£37.67New to this Edition * Updated treatment of postcolonial approaches and indigenous archaeology, with coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community archaeology in southern Africa and Australia. * New discoveries and... -
Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff 9781915590244
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read.' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything The tech elite have a plan to survive the... -
Fear in Front of the Screen: Children's Fears, Nightmares, and Thrills from TV by Maya Goetz 9781538121238
RRP: £39.00£34.37Experiencing fear in front of the screen is a common phenomenon in childhood, and a focus of public concern. Yet, research has encountered ethical and methodological challenges and has focused largely on the effects of watching disturbing news. In this... -
Posthuman Feminism by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: £15.99£14.41In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary... -
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 9781936594160
RRP: £9.95£7.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594160Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage
RRP: £10.99£7.77A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this... -
The Children of Men by P. D. James
RRP: £9.99£6.70ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel... -
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints by J. Michael Bamberger 9781544318783
RRP: £103.00£91.64RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized... -
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £12.99£8.13A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from... -
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices by Sean Nixon
RRP: £44.99£36.99Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This long-awaited second edition: * updates and refreshes the approaches to representation,... -
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism by Sheila Rowbotham
RRP: £18.99£15.11A generation ago we wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s, and facing the imminent triumph of the right under Margaret Thatcher, we sought to apply our experiences as feminists to creating stronger bonds of solidarity in a new... -
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk 9781526630155
RRP: £12.99£9.09* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * 'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM ---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our... -
Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World--Practices for Connecting Somatics, Nature, and Social Change by Abigail Rose Clarke 9781623179380
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623179380Author Abigail Rose ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Sitdowns with Gangsters by Shaun Attwood 9781399607131
RRP: £8.99£6.20Featuring an introduction from the UK's bestselling true-crime author, Christopher Berry-Dee.Shaun Attwood is the man who talks to gangsters, drug lords and mafia bosses. Infamously known for his time as the head of an international ecstasy ring in... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting 9781780277592
RRP: £10.99£7.32Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
Runes by Martin Findell
RRP: £9.99£6.80From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early 'Germanic'... -
Blackstone's Police Q&A's 2024 Volume 2: Evidence and Procedure by Jo Lawry 9780198890317
RRP: £29.99£28.50Blackstone's Police Q&As 2024 are the essential revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. They are created to follow Blackstone's Police Manuals, the only study guides endorsed by the College of Policing,... -
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting by Kim S. Golding
RRP: £22.99£21.96Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work. Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to... -
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull 9780691160887
RRP: £28.00£22.20Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have... -
Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, Revised and Updated Edition by Lindsey Biel
RRP: £19.00£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115342Author Lindsey BielFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *... -
House of War (Ben Hope, Book 20) by Scott Mariani
RRP: £9.99£7.26The edge-of-your-seat thriller from the #1 bestseller. 'A gripping tale that will have you turning the pages well into the night' MARK DAWSON A DEADLY TERROR PLOT. A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK. WILL EVIL PREVAIL? ... -
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £12.99£9.09Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest way of traversing the very old east-west route through... -
Listening Skills for Effective Policing by Andy Fairie 9781915713452
RRP: £16.99£15.77Developing and honing effective listening skills for trainee, new and existing police officers at all levels. Learning how to be an effective listener is one of the most vital communication skills for successful policing. Drawing on the author's vast... -
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] by Bryant Terry
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859723Author Bryant TerryFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale