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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: £12.99£8.56Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of... -
Hedgehog by Hugh Warwick
RRP: £14.95£10.92The hedgehog has long had a close connection with people. It has been an animal of fascination, endearment and cultural significance since the ancient Egyptians. The Romans regarded it as a weather prophet, and modern gardeners depend on the creature to... -
Against a Peacock Sky: Two Years in the Life of a Nepalese Village Monica Connell 9781780600420
RRP: £12.99£8.60For two years Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu and Chola in the Nepalese Himalayan village of Talphi, ten days walk from the nearest road. This book poetically captures the immediacy of Connell's experience, and her empathy and sense of... -
Magic: A Treatise on Natural Occultism Paperback by Manly P Hall 9781639231591
RRP: £6.95£5.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231591Author Manly P HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736336
RRP: £23.99£20.84Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set... -
Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity by Peter Howard 9780826458988
£40.09Throughout the world, heritage is now a major concern. It is a method by which to establish identities and attract visitors. Natural and cultural heritage is protected, conserved, managed and interpreted, by families, by cities, by nation states and at... -
Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English by Anna Wierzbicka 9780195368017
RRP: £51.00£33.17This book is based on two ideas: first, that any language-English no less than any other-represents a universe of meaning, shaped by the history and experience of the men and women who have created it, and second, that in any language certain... -
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Peter Coates 9781789147704
RRP: £16.99£12.28Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen wild... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: £22.99£19.56Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things... -
Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age Jonathan Passmore 9780749466626
RRP: £34.99£29.54Published with the Association for Coaching, Diversity in Coaching explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching. The book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference... -
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marcal 9780008430818
RRP: £9.99£6.64WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL 'I am absurdly excited for this book' Caroline Criado Perez ... -
Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745626352
RRP: £15.99£14.41'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of... -
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: £19.99£17.54In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations... -
Pop Music And The Press by Steve Jones
RRP: £25.99£22.49Since the 1950s, writing about popular music has become a staple of popular culture. Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The Source as well as music columns in major newspapers target consumers who take their music seriously. Rapidly proliferating fanzines,... -
The Malleus Maleficarum by Jakob Sprenger 9780486228020
RRP: £24.99£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486228020Author Jakob SprengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
White Feminism by Koa Beck
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Koa Beck writes with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women's movements and feminist culture, past and present. Curious, rigorous, and ultimately generous, White Feminism is a pleasure and an education.' Rebecca Traister,... -
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
RRP: £10.99£8.94Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous... -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era Mark A. Pinksy 9781620975046
RRP: £23.99£7.59The U.S. financial system is a source of enormous conservative power. Yet most progressive people and organisations trust it with their money and so help fund their conservative opposition. Until progressives achieve a financial system that works for... -
The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions by Susan Liautaud
RRP: £12.99£8.18Should you read your teenager's diary?Would you return the extra change?What are the ethics of social media?Is buying organic food and products a more ethical choice?Tired of small talk? Often a single question can spark a meaningful, fun exchange -... -
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma 9780816653522
RRP: £13.99£12.59In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners... -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess 9780192896070
RRP: £22.49£22.37Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept... -
Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Art of Effortlessness and the Surprising Power of Spontaneity Edward Slingerland 9780857863485
RRP: £10.99£7.32A Guardian Best Book of 2014A 2014 Brain Pickings Best Book on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live MeaningfullyWhy is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a... -
An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century Rebecca Pohl 9781912453115
RRP: £6.50£6.11Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern,... -
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
RRP: £13.99£10.25We now live in two Americas. One,now the minority,functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other,the majority,is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty... -
An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks Rachele Dini 9781912127528
RRP: £6.50£6.11Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized... -
Social Work Management and Leadership: Managing Complexity with Creativity by John Lawler 9780415467032
RRP: £39.99£35.06Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post qualification framework for social workers. Yet, whilst there is a relatively broad understanding of... -
Intelligent Policing: How Systems Thinking Approaches Eclipse Conventional Management Practice by Simon Guilfoyle
RRP: £25.00£22.62Policing is at a crossroads. At a time of unprecedented cuts and increasing levels of demand, the British police service (like many others) faces enormous challenges. Under the most radical reforms the service has ever experienced, its leadership is... -
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: £24.00£20.12The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C... -
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques by Davide Sivolella 9783030308803
RRP: £27.99£25.65This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social... -
Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions by Pragya Agarwal
RRP: £16.99£11.58A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POPULAR SCIENCEAN iNEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022A TELEGRAPH BIG IDEAS BOOK 2022'Read this book and feel furious, uplifted and galvanised to take its findings out into the world and fight for change' - LAURA... -
The Selfish Capitalist: Origins of Affluenza by Oliver James 9780091924164
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world. He met those suffering from it and demonstrated how their obsessive, envious tendencies made them... -
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole 9780571260751
RRP: £12.99£8.56For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in... -
New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England Alex Niven 9781912248254
RRP: £9.99£6.80From Orwell-reading centrists to right-wing extremists, there have been countless attempts in recent decades to reimagine the feudal nation that was once England. But there is a strong case for saying that `England' doesn't exist at all in the... -
The Roaring 2020s: How the Cloud Will Unleash History's Biggest Economic Boom by Mark P. Mills
RRP: £25.99£17.35The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal,"... -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Rules Upheld by No One by Amie McNee 9780645190502
RRP: £8.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645190502Author Amie McNeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Amie McNeePublisher Amie McNeeWeight(grams) 354g -
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine - Teaching Under Occupation Tom Sperlinger 9781782796374
RRP: £9.99£8.59Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when... -
Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by Niobe Way 9780674072428
RRP: £20.95£16.88"Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate friendships." In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence... -
Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements by Erica Lorraine Williams 9780252079443
RRP: £21.99£19.19For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that...