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An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker 9781912128884
RRP: $8.39$7.88Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to... -
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt 9781668050101
RRP: $14.18$9.86Updated with new chapters and an introduction for the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the fascinating and authoritative history of Dungeons & Dragons that "tracks D&D's turbulent rise, fall, and survival, from its heyday in the 1980s...to the... -
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young 9780571368259
RRP: $19.34$12.64FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS'Elegiac, funny, warm and wise, The Wisdom of Sheep will delight country folk and city dwellers alike.' KATHERINE MAY'A wonderful antidote to the hectic pace of modern life.' JAMES OSWALDWe talk about... -
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198871194
RRP: $113.52$102.94Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $25.80$18.95The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
The Game of Life and How to Play It: The Self-help Classic Florence Scovel Shinn 9780857088406
RRP: $15.47$10.32The classic self-help guide, full of timeless wisdom Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It first appeared in bookstores in 1925 and is now considered a classic in the self-help genre. The author's insights into achieving meaning,... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: $14.18$11.53Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in Britain. John Broughton asks us to understand better... -
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 9780743268097 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$2.95This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs... -
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam Harris 9780743268097
RRP: $12.89$8.27This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs... -
Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry by Robert Jay Lifton
RRP: $23.21$15.87Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual, proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical religious cults may be much closer than... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $19.34$14.13A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard
RRP: $14.18$8.35Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch with human progress. We live in an information age, work in a knowledge economy, yet our... -
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell 9780192802460
RRP: $12.89$9.17'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed... -
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781416527572
RRP: $14.18$9.03It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, on 17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a journalist for the Washington Post, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a... -
Being the Best Man For Dummies - UK Dominic Bliss 9781118650431
RRP: $12.89$8.77If you're looking for practical, straight-talking advice on getting things right, look no further. Being the Best Man For Dummies is a perfect one-stop guide to being the ideal best man. This newly updated edition includes: Advice on organising the stag... -
Know Justice, Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram by Deborah Threadgill Egerton, PhD
$22.10A first-of-its-kind guide to social justice through the lens of the Enneagram--a popular personality typing system--that shows how people can use their particular type to work on issues such as antiracism and homophobia.Know Justice Know Peace is a... -
Rat Trap: The capture of medicine by animal research – and how to break free by Dr Pandora Pound 9781805140528
$20.09With devastating logic and clarity, Dr Pandora Pound, Research Director at Safer Medicines Trust, comprehensively dismantles the case for animal research, bringing to an end the 150-year-old debate about its value once and for all. Focusing on the... -
Drawing Dr Curie Scott (Consultant Educationalist and Drawing Researcher, UK) 9781838673284
RRP: $20.63$15.34Drawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Yet many of us laid aside drawing - or more simply, mark-making - in childhood, thereby losing a rich and... -
21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice and Meta-Geopolitical Interests by Nayef Al-Rodhan 9780718895754
RRP: $40.31$39.62From civilisational frontier risks associated with new challenges like disruptive technologies, to the shifting nature of great-power conflicts and subversion, the 21stcentury requires a new approach to statecraft. In 21st-Century Statecraft, Professor... -
Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State by Oliver Zimmer 9780198766797
$42.08Across Europe the late nineteenth century marked a period of rapid economic change, increased migration, religious conflict, and inter-state competition. In Germany, these developments were further accentuated by the creation of the imperial state in... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
RRP: $14.18$11.53The 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... -
Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781862073272
RRP: $19.34$12.64During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal... -
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden 9780008466756
RRP: $14.18$9.35Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 ... -
Gangbuster by Peter Bleksley 9781786062482
RRP: $12.89$8.84'Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but in the world's deadliest commodity. Heroin.' As part of Scotland Yard's undercover team, it was Peter Bleksley's job to infiltrate some of the... -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House by Matthew Collin
RRP: $16.76$12.19From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's... -
Seven Days In The Art World by Sarah Thornton
RRP: $14.18$9.44Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art... -
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel
RRP: $24.50$17.65In an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong? Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political... -
Essential SQA Exam Practice: National 5 Modern Studies Questions and Papers: From the publisher of How to Pass Frank Cooney 9781510471900
RRP: $12.89$11.86Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Modern StudiesFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA National 5 Modern Studies exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice... -
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry 9781439914861
RRP: $36.11$30.52The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The... -
Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: $14.18$10.02THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYBODY LIES 'Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force - an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity' DANIEL H. PINK 'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this... -
Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love by Helen Fisher 9781851687923
RRP: $14.18$10.02Are you looking for The One? Well, according to Dr Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and relationship expert, you don't have to look any further for the way to find that special someone than your very own brain chemistry. Based on Dr Fisher's... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
Your Life - Student Book 3 by John Foster
$24.72Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability. Building on... -
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce
RRP: $24.50$16.10THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021 'In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a... -
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries by Hadia Mubarak 9780197553305
RRP: $31.59$27.32Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women. Hadia Mubarak places... -
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification by Victoria Pitts 9780312293116
RRP: $77.39$70.60Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies - not only tattooing, but... -
The Subversive Seventies by Michael Hardt 9780197674659
RRP: $28.37$24.19A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "subversives". Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of... -
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade 9781982138790
RRP: $30.95$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982138790Author Cleo WadeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 127mm * 20mm -
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change by Aric McBay
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809287Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Understand The Weather: Teach Yourself Peter Inness 9781444103106
RRP: $19.34$12.64Understand the Weather is a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the atmosphere. It will ensure that you not only understand what causes changes in the weather on a local, national and global scale but that you can also fully interpret...