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Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning by Fay Blanchard
RRP: $38.70$29.46Published to accompany an exhibition at MK Gallery, this is the first major survey of the work of contemporary British artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, nominated for the Turner Prize 2022. This publication provides the first overview of works... -
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman 9780375703799
RRP: $21.32$16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703799Author Katherine S. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
The Invisible Church: Learning from the Experiences of Churchless Christians by Steve Aisthorpe 9780861539161
RRP: $20.63$20.34For anyone who is concerned about Church decline, the contents of this book offer an essential blueprint for building God's whole community in the coming years. This unique set of resources offers practical help and insight for all who want to grow,... -
Social Work Theory and Methods: The Essentials by Neil Thompson 9781138629783
RRP: $47.72$41.96This gateway text lays the foundations for a thorough knowledge of the theory and methods that social workers need. Pulling together the work of a team of experts, this book uses the innovative "theorizing practice" approach, rather than the traditional... -
Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
RRP: $33.53$25.27The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
RRP: $32.25$20.95A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones
RRP: $21.92$15.84'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time... -
The Welcome to Country Handbook: A Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton 9781741178227
RRP: $28.38$19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741178227Author Marcia LangtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant ExploreWeight(grams) 400g -
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Jose Millas
RRP: $19.34$12.64A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps he is a... -
An A-Z of Social Work Law by Robert Johns
RRP: $28.37$23.18Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will... -
African and Caribbean Folktales, Myths and Legends by Wendy Shearer 9780702306914
RRP: $10.31$7.51Enjoy a rich collection of folktales, myths and legends from all over Africa and the Caribbean, re-told for young readers. From the trickster tales of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the leopard got his spots; ... -
Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America by Rob Goldberg 9781478025115
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children's culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice... -
Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World by Dan Breznitz 9780197508114
RRP: $36.11$30.97A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth... -
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerenyi
RRP: $45.15$35.78The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the... -
The Language of Fashion by Roland Barthes
RRP: $25.79$24.25Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial... -
London's Secret Square Mile by David Long
RRP: $16.76$12.41The streetscape of London's historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the City's busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local... -
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland
RRP: $12.89$8.86'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birth rate... -
Tihkal by Alexander T. Shulgin 9780963009692
RRP: $30.95$22.05Contains over 70 experiments, complete with notes and ingredients with the focus on Tryptamines. The first half concentrates on Shulgin's spiritual journey, ideas and philosophy. Foreword by Daniel M Perrine and preface by Nicholas Saunders. Edited by... -
Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood
RRP: $19.34$14.64The United States Colonial Marines. Ultimate troubleshooters equipped with state-of-the-art firepower, capable of power projection across the vast expanse of deep space. They can sharpshoot a man at a thousand meters or obliterate an entire world from... -
The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden by Dr Chloe Duckworth
RRP: $32.25$24.36The Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before. Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh Dennis) descend on streets and gardens the length and breadth of the country to discover the treasures we... -
The Penguin Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter
RRP: $16.76$11.73A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.About the AuthorRoy... -
Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method by Jennifer Mason 9781848601451
RRP: $65.79$53.55Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale's book seeks to set out cutting-edge developments in the field of social research and to encourage students and researchers to consider ways of learning from different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make... -
From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction by Victoria Canning
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various attempts to conceptualise social harm and highlights key sites of... -
Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold 9781847390004
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735... -
Hunt For The Skinwalker by Colm Kelleher 9781416505211
RRP: $21.92$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416505211Author Colm KelleherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Paraview Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 287g -
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
RRP: $14.18$10.02In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for Africa... -
Big Bangs by Howard Goodall
RRP: $16.76$11.73The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mean by "in tune"?Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard... -
One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power 9781846942419
RRP: $10.31$9.06Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed, contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags, a vibrator, a job, a flat and a man. Of course, no one has... -
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff 9780735224896
RRP: $41.28$24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224896Author Greg LukianoffFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing by Lynne Segal
$35.01In Out of Time, leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of growing old. Following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir-who in her mid-fifties mourned... -
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Dr. Susan Rogers 9781529114010
RRP: $14.18$10.02Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on MusicThis Is What It Sounds Like is... -
Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics by Jose Esteban Munoz
RRP: $23.21$20.51There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture-not by aligning themselves with or against... -
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe
RRP: $25.79$25.52Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native... -
Prophetic Grappling: Including as-Suyuti's al-Musārʿah ilā al-Muṣārʿah by Nisar Shaikh 9781915025159
$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025159Author Nisar ShaikhFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)... -
Decision in Child Care: A Study of Prediction in Fostering by R. A. Parker 9781032068183
RRP: $36.11$31.32Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work. In particular the decision to place a child in a foster home can have far-reaching consequences for their welfare and it is vital that we make the best possible choice on their behalf... -
The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton 9781594771330
RRP: $20.63$18.21The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon's creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
$14.64The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernandez, The Lords of el... -
Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids, The by Jim Marrs
RRP: $14.18$9.35What secrets connect Egypt's Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Marrs examines the world's most closely guarded secrets, tracing the history of clandestine societies... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
$17.51London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved and Those Wanting to Support Them by Katrina Taee
RRP: $23.21$16.71Are you grieving? Would you like to have a better understanding of grief? Are you wanting to support someone who is grieving but don't know how? This beautifully illustrated book written by two experienced Bereavement Practitioners is unlike any other...