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Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way by Harry Brod 9781416595304
$28.86In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod reveals the links between Jews and superheroes in a penetrating investigation of iconic comic book figures. He describes how the role of each hero reflects the evolution of the Jewish place in American culture-an alien... -
Class Rules: the Truth about Scotland's Schools by James McEnaney
RRP: $12.89$9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910022603Author James McEnaneyFormat PaperbackImprint Luath Press LtdPublisher Luath Press Ltd -
Is Our Food Killing Us? by Joy Manning
RRP: $16.76$11.09Chronic obesity is on the rise; our food is laced with additives and chemicals; and the environment is being devastated by factory farming, pesticides, fertilizers and monoculture. It is time to re-evaluate what we eat and how we eat it, and re-think the... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield
RRP: $14.18$9.44Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a... -
Disordered Personalities and Crime: An analysis of the history of moral insanity by David W. Jones
RRP: $56.75$49.59Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as 'morally insane', 'psychopathic' or 'personality disordered'. Individuals whose behaviour is consistent... -
Game Theory: An Introduction by Steven Tadelis
RRP: $74.82$58.53This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise description of rational decision making, and goes on to discuss... -
I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 9781647820558
RRP: $25.79$18.77For readers of Sapiens and Homo Deus and viewers of The Social Dilemma, psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions facing our species: Will we use artificial intelligence to improve the way we work and live, or will we... -
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney 9780061936463
RRP: $21.92$15.84"An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported...A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities." -Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing... -
Drug Wars: The Political Economy Of Narcotics by Curtis Marez 9780816640607
$27.40As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No"... -
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: $28.37$24.24In 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... -
Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
RRP: $11.60$8.53Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and... -
Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Tim Jackson
RRP: $58.05$50.96'Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765-1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794-5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library,... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: $16.76$11.04Our 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... -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: $16.76$11.04In 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... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: $18.05$12.94The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude... -
Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben 9780816622351
RRP: $24.50$21.10Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive a human... -
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Peter Coates 9781789147704
RRP: $21.92$15.84Squirrel 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... -
Hedgehog by Hugh Warwick
RRP: $19.29$14.09The 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... -
Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions by Pragya Agarwal
RRP: $21.92$14.94A 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... -
Against a Peacock Sky: Two Years in the Life of a Nepalese Village by Monica Connell 9781780600420
RRP: $16.76$11.09For 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... -
Pop Music And The Press by Steve Jones
RRP: $33.53$28.43Since 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,... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736336
RRP: $33.53$28.43Dialectic 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... -
The Malleus Maleficarum by Jakob Sprenger 9780486228020
RRP: $32.24$20.95Apologies 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)... -
Global Health and Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives by Colleen O'Manique
RRP: $50.30$44.14The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: $29.66$25.23Concerns 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... -
Your Computer Is on Fire by Thomas S Mullaney
RRP: $42.57$33.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539739Author Thomas S. MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
(M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman by Pragya Agarwal
RRP: $21.92$14.94'An exhilarating, genre-defying read' Observer, 'Beautiful' Elif Shafak, 'Absolutely sensational' Michael Cashman, CBE, 'Powerful and compelling' New Statesman', 'Brilliant' Caitlin MoranIn a world where women have more choices than ever, society... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' Simon Schama ... -
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $14.18$11.53Selected 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 by Mark A. Pinksy
RRP: $30.95$9.79The 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... -
Your Life - Student Book 3 by John Foster
RRP: $21.92$20.79Your 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... -
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863564772
RRP: $21.92$18.19"The people want ...": the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by their demands. In this landmark work, noted... -
Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto by Rebecca Pohl
RRP: $8.39$7.88Haraway'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,... -
Intelligent Policing: How Systems Thinking Approaches Eclipse Conventional Management Practice by Simon Guilfoyle
RRP: $32.25$29.18Policing 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... -
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole 9780571260751
RRP: $16.76$11.04For 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... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Rachele Dini
RRP: $8.39$7.88Frantz 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... -
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques by Davide Sivolella 9783030308803
RRP: $36.11$33.09This 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... -
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Jeremy Dronfield 9781786071194
RRP: $15.47$10.87A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire,... -
Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $21.27$18.45A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and... -
New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England by Alex Niven
RRP: $12.89$8.77From 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...