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Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and Other New Arrivals by John Vincent
RRP: £40.00£32.78Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support 'new arrivals' - people who have crossed borders to reach a country. The book looks at the different drivers behind an individual's move, their need for... -
Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy 9780745333489
RRP: £24.99£16.38Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and 80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and... -
Migrant Labour in Japan by Yoko Sellek 9780333804322
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the impact of foreign migrant workers on elements of sovereign power in Japan and examines how the country's immigration control has been reshaped by the existence of these workers. It traces the changing situation of foreign migrant... -
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle 9781847926739
RRP: £18.99£13.61What would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful... -
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz 9780753560792
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A terrific history of the online creator economy.' The New York Times'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were... -
The Sacred Sword (Ben Hope, Book 7) by Scott Mariani
RRP: £9.99£7.26FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott AN ANCIENT SWORD. A LONG BURIED SECRET.ONE MAN WILL... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft... -
Making Numbers Count: The art and science of communicating numbers by Chip Heath
RRP: £14.99£10.95A lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to understanding cold, clinical data and harnessing it to tell a persuasive story.__________How many hours' worth of songs are on your Spotify Wrapped this year?How much is your commute time really worth?How... -
Misfits by Author 326564 EB
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A SUNDAY TIMES FILM & TV BOOK OF THE YEAR'Razor-sharp and as funny as I May Destroy You ... A gifted writer' Sunday Times | 'A remarkable talent' Guardian | 'A perfect truth-teller of our time' ELLE | 'Leaps off the... -
Black and Blur by Fred Moten
RRP: £23.99£20.84"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of... -
Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population: Improving Pedestrian Mobility for Older People by Charles Musselwhite 9781839827457
RRP: £47.99£40.02Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and demonstrates how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe, and framed around Bourdieu's... -
Animal-speak by Ted Andrews 9780875420288
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875420288Author Ted AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 845g -
Talking with Female Serial Killers - A chilling study of the most evil women in the world by Christopher Berry-Dee 9781786069009
RRP: £9.99£6.85Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist and bestselling author of books about the serial killers Aileen Wuornos and Joanne Dennehy, turns his uncompromising gaze upon women who not only kill, but kill repeatedly. Because female murderers, and especially... -
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £10.99£7.77Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from... -
Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism by Sophie Williams
RRP: £9.99£5.82'Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a true anti-racist ally' Pippa Vosper Do you want to be an anti-racist ally? This punchy, pocket-sized... -
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one of the greatest deal-makers alive. His companies possess extraordinary political and cultural power. Whether it is the Sun and the... -
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 by Jacqueline Woodson 9781474616454
RRP: £8.99£6.20THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS'NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates'Generous and big-hearted' Brit Bennett 'A true spell... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £22.00£17.36Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden
RRP: £11.99£10.15The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. After a brief scuffle one of them... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present by Nicholas Crane
RRP: £9.99£6.80How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed form a European... -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £22.99£20.01In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with... -
English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather by Ben Fogle
RRP: £9.99£6.64What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the... -
Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A book that gets wiser, darker, and more brutally... -
Low Life - Irreverent Reflections from the Bottom of a Glass by Late Jeffrey Bernard
RRP: £12.99£8.63Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life - with women, drink, doctors, horses - which have become legendary. Low Life is an irresistible collection of the best of... -
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781914535369
RRP: £25.00£23.78The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual... -
The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti 9780745641584
RRP: £14.99£13.58The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally... -
Gender – In World Perspective by R Connell
RRP: £15.99£14.41How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn... -
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 by Amy Livingstone 9780801448416
RRP: £54.00£47.19In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on... -
Culture & Truth by Renato Rosaldo 9780807046234
RRP: £22.50£22.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046234Author Renato RosaldoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
BFF?: The truth about female friendship by Claire Cohen
RRP: £16.99£12.28Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others fade away?How do you break up with a friend? How many 'best' friends should we be aiming for? From the time we start school, we are fed a diet of 'Best Friends Forever' - the idea that you should have... -
Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives by Anna Kessel
RRP: £9.99£7.27Part manifesto, part how-to, Eat Sweat Play is a hugely inspirational call to arms for women to take back sport for themselves. Long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.Sport's for everyone . . . isn't it?Society has led us to... -
Britain's Birds: A Treasury of Facts, Fiction and Folklore by Jo Woolf
RRP: £12.99£8.88The perfect gift for bird watchers. 70 of Britain's birds - natural history facts, folklore and literary appearances. Packed with natural history facts, folklore and literary appearances for more than 70 of Britain's birds. A... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
RRP: £10.99£7.40Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most... -
Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore by Kent Hoffman
RRP: £14.99£11.80Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent... -
The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken 9781785788130
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Charming, touching and very very funny' Jenny Colgan'Simply too good' Daily MailFrom the author of the Times bestselling A Chip Shop in PoznanONE HOUSE. TWO HOUSEMATES. THREE REASONS TO WORRY: WINNIE AND BEN ARE SEPARATED BY 50 YEARS, A GULF IN CLASS,... -
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat 9781780278766
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,... -
Managing Children's Homes: Developing Effective Leadership in Small Organisations by Sarah Byford
RRP: £35.00£33.75Managing Children's Homes focuses on leadership, effective management, the allocation of resources, and ensuring positive outcomes for young people in residential care.The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of what needs to be taken into... -
Method Meets Art, Third Edition: Arts-Based Research Practice by Patricia Leavy 9781462538973
£46.97Ideal for courses in multiple disciplines, the third edition of this award-winning text has been revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter's sections. Patricia Leavy presents a practical guide to the... -
Blob School by Pip Wilson
RRP: £35.99£31.69Blob School is an educational resource designed specifically for one of the main purchasers of the Blobs - teachers! This practical resource aims to cover all the key areas of school life so that teachers, assistants, school workers, pupils and parents... -
What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard
RRP: £10.99£7.77A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely powerful . . . her investigation of this terrible illness is sensitive and compelling' Sunday TimesAfter her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci...