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Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975401Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead...

Where there are pigeons, there is resistance. Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir's award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a sociologist and the development of his core ideas...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections. This resonant...

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections...

Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a...

The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252468Author PH D Marlene TrompFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226783Author Nicole ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

For over twenty years Nancy Hartsock has been a powerful voice in the effort to forge a feminism sophisticated and strong enough to make a difference in the real world of powerful political and economic forces. This volume collects her most important...

Good governance is one of the UK's fundamental values, and citizens are entitled to expect that public officials, both elected and non-elected, behave according to the highest standards of ethical behaviour. However, such lofty aspirations are not enough...

Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062282712Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g

"This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the steepest hills to climb, may have been fucked at birth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221262Author Sophie ChauhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777403Author Lawrence WeschlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778014Author Walt AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

One of Bustle's Best Books of MayA feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959056960Author Martin BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm * 20mm

Lessons of Decal is a queer-feminist meditation on reading and learning, a bibliophilic memoir, in a series of lyrically spun experimental essays. A decal is a copy, a transfer of forms and knowledge, something that sticks. In this book, I ask how we or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627344005Author Tomasz WitkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807070857Author Nancy MairsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389231410Author Ravish KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974607Author Estelle B. FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 362g

Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy-an economy that has little to do with sharing...

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556439193Author Martin KeoghFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably France's greatest living public intellectual. The essays span six decades of his career, addressing topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408017Author Didier FassinFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385696562Author M.G. VassanjiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181003Author Dan SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 243g

What exactly is it we want from dogs today? This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal-in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350330Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988628632Author Mia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Bgd Press, Inc.Publisher Bgd Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Musings Series 1 | Musings Series 2George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho...