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Gods in Shackles: What Elephants Can Teach Us About Empathy, Resilience and Freedom by Sangita Iyer
RRP: £12.99£7.72This moving memoir follows a journalist and filmmaker as she finds her purpose in advocacy for the Asian elephants in her hometown of Kerala, India. Foreword by Jane Goodall.'I was shocked, saddened and angered by the cruelty towards the elephants who... -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £14.99£11.58How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious History of Weights & Measures tells the story of how we... -
Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Survival Guide by Helen Kara
RRP: £24.99£19.39Research doesn't exist in a bubble but co-exists with a multitude of other tasks and commitments, yet there is more need for people to save time than ever before. Brilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how... -
Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News by Alaa Elgibali 9789774166525
RRP: £24.99£20.29In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic--in academia, governments, NGOs, and business--Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this important global region firsthand... -
The Sociological Imagination by Ismael Puga
RRP: £6.50£6.11C. Wright Mills's 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a... -
Your Life - Student Book 4 by John Foster
RRP: £16.99£16.12Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The fourth editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability. Section 1:... -
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg
RRP: £26.99£22.80Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and... -
Grade Booster for CfE SQA Exam Revision - Higher Modern Studies Grade Booster for SQA Exam Revision: Maximise Marks and Minimise Mistakes to Achieve Your Best Possible Mark by Pamela Farr
RRP: £11.99£11.66Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015 This book is the essential guide to exam skills. It includes detailed advice on how to approach and answer the different types of question you will find... -
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success by Jay Van Bavel
RRP: £12.99£8.60If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes - to reflect the interests of the groups of... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? by Rowland Atkinson 9781526466556
RRP: £11.99£9.70The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it? In this book,... -
Stopping Places: A Gypsy History of South London and Kent by Simon Evans 9781902806303
RRP: £14.99£13.33The story of the enforced settlement of Gypsy travelers in southeast England, whose nomadic lifestyle ended when they were moved to concrete ghettos of local-government-run caravan sites following the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, is told in this textual and... -
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
RRP: £12.99£9.09From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... -
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization by Donald W. Braben
RRP: £16.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578675916Author Donald W. BrabenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Animal Media Group LLCPublisher Animal Media Group LLC -
The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack by Jim Dutcher
RRP: £14.99£9.26From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspiration, drawn from the wild, will fascinate animal and nature lovers alike. For six years Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived intimately with a pack of wolves,... -
Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001): The Church from Carlyle to Derrida by John Schad
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark,... -
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone by Sarah Jaffe 9781787384644
RRP: £20.00£17.86A Times Business Book of the Year 2021 Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make... -
Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Ray Fisman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone... -
Sita: An Illustrated Retelling Of The Ramayana by Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik
RRP: £29.95£19.50It is significant that the only character in Hindu mythology, a king at that, to be given the title of ekam-patni-vrata, devoted to a single wife, is associated with the most unjust act of abandoning her in the forest to protect family reputation. This... -
The Wolf Catcher: The true story of how one woman exposed the world's biggest heist by Clare Rewcastle Brown 9781527244757
RRP: £10.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527244757Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press -
Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music And Adolescent Alienation by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
RRP: £34.99£33.38Heavy metal is a violent, head-bashing music complete, in its live performances, with its own arena of rage and celebration, the mosh pit. It is a music in the red corner of society, loud, angry, and, to a well-tuned ear, practically intolerable. And... -
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England by Barbara A. Hanawalt 9780195045642
£26.10Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the... -
The Forest in Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous
RRP: £13.49£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486420103Author Alexander PorteousFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99£9.78Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. ... -
Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach by C. M. H. Carr
RRP: £49.99£43.50**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 2001. The paperback released in 2014 is a reprint of the original** Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their... -
Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today) by Juliet B. Schor 9780684870564
RRP: £17.00£11.41Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and... -
Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: £18.99£16.36With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities,... -
The Kristeva Reader by Julia Kristeva 9780231063258
£38.11An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva's writing--semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory--and are each prefaced by a clear, instructive... -
Donkey by Jill Bough
RRP: £13.95£13.43From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. Despite the critical role that they have played... -
A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse by Steve Garner
RRP: £39.99£35.06A Moral Economy of Whiteness presents a working model for understanding the main ways in which white UK people make 'race' through talking about immigration in the twenty-first century. Based on extensive empirical interviews, Steve Garner establishes... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins
RRP: £36.99£32.53This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions... -
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £12.99£8.63In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare... -
Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice by Joyce D'Silva
RRP: £29.99£26.64This unique and readable book examines the relationship between religion and animal welfare, taking a detailed dive into the teachings and practices of the major world religions.While there are many books expounding the beliefs of the major religions and... -
From Dusk 'til Dawn: An Insider's View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement by Keith Mann 9780955585005
£30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955585005Author Keith MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Puppy Pincher PressPublisher Puppy Pincher PressDimensions(mm) 230mm * 156mm * 45mm -
Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O. Jackson 9780691148205
RRP: £45.00£35.07Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: £45.00£39.15At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes... -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World by Simon Garfield 9781786890795
RRP: £10.99£7.32In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large.Here you will find the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the... -
Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul by Keith Gildart
RRP: £85.00£60.17In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s it was attracting thousands of enthusiasts across the country. This book is a social history... -
Free Expression in the Age of the Internet: Social and Legal Boundaries by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
RRP: £49.99£43.50In Free Expression in the Age of the Internet, Jeremy Lipschultz investigates the Internet and its potential for profound change, analyzing the use of its technology from social, political, and economic perspectives. Lipschultz provides new insights on... -
On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations by Robin James Smith
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual... -
The Learning Game: A Teacher's Inspirational Story by Jonathan Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.40We are all caught up in our children's lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can...