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Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 1: Concepts and Theory by Gregor Fitzi
RRP: £41.99£36.75There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break... -
Filtered: Coffee, the Cafe and the 21st-Century City Emma Felton 9781138367920
RRP: £37.99£33.38Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world. From London to Seoul, Melbourne to Shanghai and many cities in between, people are flocking to cafes. A recent phenomenon, cafe culture has made its reappearance only since the end of the 20th... -
The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 by Victor Bailey
RRP: £45.99£40.53Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of... -
Authority: Construction and Corrosion by Bruce Lincoln
RRP: £24.00£23.03What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln... -
The Schumacher Lectures: v. 1 by Satish Kumar 9780856341076 [USED COPY]
£3.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856341076Author Satish KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Frederick Muller LtdPublisher Century Hutchinson (A Division of Random House... -
Questions Women Ask in Private by H. Norman Wright 9780830716371 [USED COPY]
£10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830716371Author H. Norman WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Gospel LightPublisher David C Cook Publishing Company -
Big Top Boss: JOHN RINGLING NORTH AND THE CIRCUS by David Lewis Hammarstrom 9780252064050 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.00£13.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Human Dynamics: A New Framework for Understanding People and Realizing the Potential in Our Organizations by David Horne 9781883823078 [USED COPY]
RRP: £31.00£3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883823078Author David HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Pegasus CommunicationsPublisher Pegasus CommunicationsWeight(grams) 658g -
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell 9781783784066 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men... -
Mental Health and Otherness: Intersections between Gender, Race, Class and Age Ilana Mountian 9780367207663
RRP: £135.00£114.75Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as... -
Key Texts for Japanese Sociology Hideo Nakazawa 9781036200763
RRP: £75.00£63.75Though rich, diverse, unique and engaging, Japan′s sociological outputs have been internationally underrepresented. In its thoughtful translation and curation of key Japanese sociological texts, this book redresses this imbalance and treads exciting new... -
Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis Cara Reed 9783111620756
RRP: £18.50£15.73Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have... -
Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats Cinzia Greco 9783031657962
RRP: £119.99£101.99This book collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and in fields including computer science, astronomy, mining, biology, and... -
Self-Presentation and Representative Politics: Essays in Context, 1960-2020 Derek Robbins 9781839993701
RRP: £25.00£21.25Through six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, the book provides an account of the author’s developing political awareness during the period in the context of political events and changes. In this way the book... -
How to Write Technical Reports: Understandable Structure, Good Design, Convincing Presentation Heike Hering 9783662697726
RRP: £64.99£55.24This textbook and workbook provides all the important and necessary knowledge to professionally and efficiently design written or oral papers in STEM and engineering subjects. With sample outlines and tips in the form of right-wrong comparisons,... -
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination: Artists as Political Agents Maria Rovisco 9781138090989
RRP: £135.00£114.75Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what... -
The Aesthetic Thought and View of Art of Thomas Aquinas Zhiqing Zhang 9789819768981
RRP: £99.99£84.99This book examines Aquinas's aesthetic thought and view of art within the broader context of medieval aesthetics and the history of aesthetic development, emphasizing its profound influence on later aesthetics. The book not only elaborates on Aquinas's... -
Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung Marc Matter 9783111561059
RRP: £91.00£77.35This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitalization. The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume deal with fundamental questions confronting performed poetry in the digital age:... -
Unhappy Families: Childcare in a Hopeless World Adam Ferner 9781788217897
RRP: £75.00£70.51Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope. -
(Un)explainable Technology Hendrik Kempt 9783031680977
RRP: £34.99£29.74As we face technologies, mostly autonomous, machine-learned algorithms (AI) that elude a seamless explanation on how they work (“black boxes”), several issues both from an epistemological as well as ethical perspectives emerge. -
Muslims Don't Matter Sayeeda Warsi 9781405563796
RRP: £24.99£21.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands Catharina Gabrielsson 9781032498836
RRP: £135.00£114.75Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia. From offshore financial centres to... -
Reform of Chinese Journalism Education Driven by Media Convergence Wen Cai 9781032815930
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book explores the significant changes in Chinese journalism education in response to the rapid development of digital and new media technologies.It emphasises the need for journalism education reform to keep pace with changing times and cultivate... -
Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour Jennifer Bilek 9781922964106
RRP: £21.95£14.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Humane Autonomous Technology: Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems Rebekah Rousi 9783031665271
RRP: £44.99£38.24This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry... -
Corona und mediale Öffentlichkeiten Dennis Gräf 9783658455026
RRP: £69.99£59.49Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden, interdisziplinären Blick auf mediale Erscheinungsformen im Kontext der Corona-Krise und fokussiert in diesem Zusammenhang insbesondere medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche, linguistische, philosophische und... -
Democratizing the State: Social Accountability and Social Control Regimes in Mexico and Brazil Adrian Gurza Lavalle 9783111061856
RRP: £79.00£67.15Democratic institution-building experiences, innovative forms of social organization, and the development of multiple state-society interfaces represent a significant political phenomenon in Latin America in the last half-century. By comparing the two... -
The Jews of Egypt: A Mediterranean Society In Modern Times Shimon Shamir 9780367308834
RRP: £36.99£31.44The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the... -
Feedback: How to Destroy or Save the World Péter Érdi 9783031624384
RRP: £27.99£23.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive: A Sociology of Modern Culture John Carroll 9781032333984
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century. The author questions assumptions of sociological fashion and goes beyond the descriptions of changes in the... -
Prison from Within Richmond Harvey 9781032346960
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months for fraud. It is a linear narrative honestly recording the various facets of prison culture, along with candid character... -
The Stalker Affair and the Press David Murphy 9781032343938
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1991, The Stalker Affair and the Press documents the media treatment of police constable John Stalker’s removal from his job. -
Journalism Reborn: The Transformation of Chinese Media in the Mobile Internet Age Yang Chen 9781032815923
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book examines the strategies Chinese news media have implemented to address the challenges posed by the mobile Internet to Chinese journalistic practices and businesses.Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, the book... -
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other C.L. Skach 9781526655219
RRP: £9.99£8.49'When a renowned constitutional scholar explains why the law is not enough and is sometimes even the problem, we need to listen' PETER GRAY, AUTHOR OF FREE TO LEARN 'Skach convincingly tells us that laws and rules are not sufficient for living together... -
Bad Blood Colm Tóibín 9781035054862
RRP: £9.99£8.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035054862Author Colm TóibínFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan -
Some of Our Parts: Why we are more than the labels we live by Laura Kennedy 9781804186770
RRP: £14.99£9.98An investigation of the labels we give ourselves and how they affect our lives and our sense of selfIn a culture of personal branding and the elevation of wellness jargon as a substitute for meaning, we seek out individuality in tribes. We want to be... -
Social Sector Communication: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies Jaishri Jethwaney 9781032859484
RRP: £135.00£117.28Communication, advocacy and outreach are germane to the success of any organization working in the social sector. This book provides a robust conceptual framework that is required for understanding the demands of the sector, suggests strategies, and... -
Muslims Don't Matter Sayeeda Warsi 9780349136479
RRP: £14.99£10.95Modern Britain has seen an insidious rise in Islamophobia on both the right and the left. From misleading media stories like the Trojan Horse Affair in Birmingham's schools to the hatred directed at Muslim politicians and public figures during the Gaza... -
The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture Leopoldina Fortunati 9783110792157
RRP: £118.00£88.63The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture provides a comprehensive discussion of how social robots take form, function, and meaning for individuals, relationships, cultures, and societies. Through a path-breaking integration of... -
The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality Rachel Adams 9781509553099
RRP: £20.00£17.00As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. As Rachel Adams shows in this...