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The Modern Law of Contract Richard Stone 9781032626734
RRP: £36.99£32.53Written by an author team with over sixty years of combined teaching experience, the new edition of The Modern Law of Contract is the complete textbook for students of contract law, providing not only clear and authoritative commentary but also a... -
OCR A-level Sociology Student Guide 1: Socialisation, culture and identity with Family and Youth subcultures Katherine Roberts 9781510472051
£12.69Reinforce students' understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 1: Socialisation, culture and identity with Family and Youth Subcultures.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and... -
Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America by J. E. Goldthorpe 9780521337526
RRP: £30.99£28.28This book was first published in 1987, offering a masterly review and synthesis of the available literature on family life in western societies. This book presents a distinctive approach to family sociology, focusing on two related questions: Why did we... -
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism by Kohei Saito 9781009366182
RRP: £29.99£22.85Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the... -
The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
£15.03She is the most prolific children's author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous... -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£18.28For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age by Christine M. Beckman 9781503602557
RRP: £23.99£19.79A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life. Jay's days are filled with back-to-back meetings, but he... -
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year by David Crystal 9781851246113
RRP: £25.00£19.47In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets and global institutions, together with the weird and wonderful creations... -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club by Kit Holden 9780715654859
RRP: £9.99£6.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 (FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR) ------------ A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin. No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East... -
The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509550258
RRP: £14.99£13.58Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our... -
The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn Vivek Chibber 9780674297296
RRP: £19.95£16.12“A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultural theory. It isn’t clear how culturalists—especially the anti-Marxist ones—can effectively respond to... -
A-Level Sociology: AQA Year 1 & AS Complete Revision & Practice CGP Books 9781782943549
RRP: £10.99£9.59This clear, concise Complete Revision & Practice book from CGP is a perfect way to prepare for the AQA AS-Level Sociology exams - and it's also ideal for Year 1 of the full A-Level course. It's packed with straightforward study notes explaining all the... -
Sociology Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781509539222
RRP: £29.99£29.04Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to... -
A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be by Dr. Deena Emera
RRP: £14.99£9.26From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause-A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens.Let's face it: The female body is an enigma. For... -
Finland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Elena Barrett 9781787029088
RRP: £9.99£7.54Don't just see the sights get to know the people. The people of this land of white summer nights and pristine lakes are famous for their sisu, a form of enterprising stoicism. They are survivors: if you were stranded on a desert island, your ideal... -
My Seventy Years of Spurs: A Long Walk Down White Hart Memory Lane by Norman Giller 9781785318894
RRP: £18.99£13.61My Seventy Years of Spurs is veteran sportswriter Norman Giller's unique story of Tottenham Hotspur over the seven decades he has followed the Lilywhites. Norman saw the legendary 'push and run' side lift the league title in 1950/51, then as a press-box... -
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £14.99£9.88Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by Paula Prober 9780692713105
RRP: £17.95£14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692713105Author Sarah J WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ghf PressPublisher Ghf PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745610337
RRP: £22.99£20.16Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This... -
Around the World in 80 Ways: Exploring Our Planet Through Maps and Data Stephen Webb 9783031024399
RRP: £34.99£31.79Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live... -
Politics of Affect Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: £15.99£14.41'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth... -
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution David Sloan Wilson 9781101872819
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872819Author David Sloan WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency by Vicky Spratt
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - PANDORA SYKES 'Excellent' - NOVARA MEDIA 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.' THE TIMES ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED,... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging' Gyles Brandreth, author of Word Play Why do we have... -
How to be a Sociologist: An Introduction to A Level Sociology by Sarah Cant
RRP: £14.99£14.34Learn how to think like a sociologist with this short, up-to-date and accessible introduction to studying A Level Sociology or starting sociology at university. Find out how sociology works and what it can do, as well as where it can take you. ... -
Welcome to Social Theory by Tom Brock
RRP: £29.99£24.16Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life. Tom Brock's comprehensive and... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 9781848549722
RRP: £10.99£7.40Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: £25.00£18.02'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the... -
Sociology: A Very Short Introduction by Steve Bruce 9780198822967
RRP: £8.99£6.45Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role... -
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: £18.99£12.83Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK, Second Edition Frank Cooney 9781510429147
£23.02Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to course content and prepare students to cope with the increased emphasis on... -
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions by Todd Rose
RRP: £18.99£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306925696Author Todd RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette GoPublisher Hachette GoWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1: AS and 1st-Year A Level by Ken Browne 9781509516216
RRP: £12.99£11.94The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and... -
Aunt Branwell and the Bront Legacy by ,Nick Holland 9781526722232
RRP: £12.99£9.09Elizabeth Branwell was born in Penzance in 1770, a member of a large and influential Cornish family of merchants and property owners. In 1821 her life changed forever when her sister Maria fell dangerously ill. Leaving her comfortable life behind,... -
Stop People Pleasing by Patrick King 9789388247146
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388247146Author Patrick KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Embassy BooksPublisher Embassy BooksDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
I Can Hear the Cuckoo: Life in the Wilds of Wales by Kiran Sidhu
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A beautiful and poetic meditation on loss, nature, and what matters in life.' - Nigel WarburtonFrom the BAFTA award-winning writer of The New Yorker short film, Heart ValleyKiran Sidhu never thought she could leave London, but when her mother passes... -
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and... -
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: £16.99£12.68Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that accompanies it: the fear of imminent or... -
Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids by Sara Hannant 9781858945590
RRP: £19.95£16.21In Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, a man covered from head to toe in straw - the 'straw bear' - is paraded through the streets, accompanied by 250 dancers, musicians and performers, while in Ottery St Mary, Devon, a crowd gathers as townspeople hoist... -
Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories by Asta
RRP: £36.49£26.30We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and...