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Interfaces On Trial: Intellectual Property And Interoperability In The Global Software Industry by Jonathan Band 9780367166854
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents the history of one of the key debates in the continuing effort to develop a legal framework for intellectual property rights in the burgeoning computer software industry. It is the first full account of the interoperability debate.Book... -
Mecca by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £16.99£12.28Mecca is the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction towards which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet Mecca's importance goes... -
We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Jason Blakely
RRP: £24.49£20.78Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific... -
The Global Transformations Reader by David Held 9780745631356
RRP: £24.99£22.81The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary... -
Compassion in Action: My Life Rescuing Abused and Neglected Animals by Scotlund Haisley 9781634505703
RRP: £18.99£16.09Scotlund Haisley, the founder and president of Animal Rescue Corps, has spent more than twenty-five years saving the lives of thousands of animals. Wearing a respirator mask for protection from the piercing ammonia that hangs in the air and with law... -
The Complete Books of Charles Fort by Charles Fort
RRP: £41.99£36.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230948Author Charles FortFormat PaperbackPage Count 1152Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Class and Everyday Life: Critiques and Practices by Kirsteen Paton 9781138927384
£35.21Exploring the issues of class through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music and politics in Britain, Class and Everyday Life persuasively demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical... -
Publics and Counterpublics by Michael Warner
RRP: £25.00£19.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951290Author Michael WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Introduction to Human-Animal Interaction: Insights from Social and Life Sciences by Laëtitia Maréchal 9781032118369
RRP: £35.99£31.69Introduction to Human-Animal Interaction focuses on the human dimension of interacting with other animals. This book introduces recent developments, theories, and debates in the relatively new research area of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) and focuses... -
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality by Susan McClary 9780816641895
RRP: £19.99£17.17A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. ". . . this is a major book . . . [McClary's]... -
The Etheric: Broadening Science Through Anthroposophy: Volume 1: The World of the Ethers by Ernst Marti
RRP: £11.99£10.05Ernst Marti devoted his life to researching the 'etheric realm' - a subtle area that exists between the physical and spiritual. Taking the numerous statements and references by Rudolf Steiner as his starting point, Marti develops our understanding of the... -
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win by Aric McBay
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809119Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: £39.99£36.06The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the... -
The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way by Frank Furedi
RRP: £22.50£17.32Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars... -
Air Pistol Shooting: A Guide to Pistols and Techniques by John Bezzant
RRP: £12.99£10.78This invaluable, well-illustrated book presents a carefully crafted, step-by-step programme which teaches the complete novice air pistol shooter how to attain a high level of marksmanship. The training begins with a detailed consideration of safety... -
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat 9780316881791
RRP: £20.00£11.96This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs?... -
David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought by Noel Castree
RRP: £19.99£17.69David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's... -
The Reset: Ideas to Change How We Work and Live by Elizabeth Uviebinene 9781529347456
RRP: £9.99£6.80Some people seek purpose in work. Others see work as a tool to live with purpose outside of work. Where do you sit on this scale?'An exciting, refreshing, curious read which addresses not just the future of work but how to fundamentally rethink the way... -
Arab Women's Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes by Nevine El Nossery
RRP: £89.99£83.13This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres,... -
Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster by Hugo Slim
RRP: £30.00£26.43Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and... -
Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents: Practical Examples and Guidance for Qualitative Researchers by Aimee Grant
RRP: £37.99£33.38In today's society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists... -
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview by Audrey Smedley
RRP: £54.99£47.72This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the... -
Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell
RRP: £17.99£16.04The widespread uptake of digital platforms - from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok - is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while... -
Social Sciences: The Big Issues by Kath Woodward 9780415824095
£40.09The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality... -
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida
RRP: £29.99£25.99Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of... -
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony by Jay Van Bavel
RRP: £20.00£13.35If 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... -
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis
£12.25"A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world-and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it." -President Bill ClintonA radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies,... -
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
RRP: £19.99£17.17A multifaceted response to the question,A multifaceted response to the question, "Do animals have rights?" from an intellectual leader in the animal rights movementAbout the AuthorTom Regan is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State... -
The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century by Tom M. Devine
RRP: £30.00£20.60The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands... -
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson 9781905128150
RRP: £12.00£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905128150Author Geoff NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Harbour Books (East) LtdPublisher Harbour Books (East) Ltd -
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War" by Diana Taylor
RRP: £24.99£21.23In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983... -
Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences by Berth Danermark
RRP: £39.99£35.06Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical... -
God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do About God by Tim Clinton 9781501108136
RRP: £10.99£10.95God. Whether one loves him, hates him, denies or defies him, it is hard to deny the worldwide fascination with God. This book explores why and suggests a personal response to the God Attachment in all of us. Why has the human race, the world over, been... -
RIBA Ethical Practice Guide by Carys Rowlands 9781914124723
RRP: £30.00£24.17Ethical practice distinguishes an RIBA chartered architect from other design professionals. The RIBA Code of Professional Conduct requires practitioners to uphold high standards, while encouraging and empowering them to reflect critically and to... -
Tourism: Between Place and Performance by Simon Coleman 9781571817464
RRP: £27.95£22.58Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with... -
Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures by Alex Wilkie 9780367895129
RRP: £39.99£35.06Is another future possible? So called 'late modernity' is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social-natural, techno-scientific and... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: £19.99£17.69It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton
RRP: £8.99£6.68In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburton's meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy. Her debut novel questions the lengths women must go to make their mark... -
Data Justice by Lina Dencik 9781529720945
RRP: £32.99£27.22"The definitive book on the social, political, and economic dimensions of data." - Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World "An essential handbook for those invested in reclaiming our digital space." - Payal Arora, author of The... -
Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis by Elin Kelsey
RRP: £14.99£12.92"This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW." -Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children's future;...