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Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book by Jane Sunderland 9780415311045
RRP: $75.46$66.62Language and Gender:presents an up-to-date introduction to language and genderincludes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approachesgathers together influential readings from... -
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
RRP: $22.28$15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865687Author Gretchen BakkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 398g -
Aunt Branwell and the Bront Legacy by ,Nick Holland 9781526722232
RRP: $22.28$15.59Elizabeth 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,... -
Sociology: A Very Short Introduction by Steve Bruce 9780198822967
RRP: $15.42$11.06Drawing 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... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor 9781848549722
RRP: $18.85$12.69Over 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... -
Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids by Sara Hannant 9781858945590
RRP: $34.22$27.81In 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... -
Social Research: Paradigms in Action by Norman Blaikie 9780745671857
RRP: $34.29$30.34This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for... -
You are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
RRP: $18.85$13.33How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. You are not so smart. In this international bestseller,... -
Sociology: Making Sense of Society by Samantha Punch
$89.80The fifth edition of Sociology: Making Sense of Society retains the highly praised four-part structure and style of the fourth edition, and through this explores the diversity, contradictions and challenges we face in our social world. This essential... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
$39.49Exam 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... -
The Health Debate by David J. Hunter
RRP: $30.86$24.55Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political... -
The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking by Keith E Stanovich
RRP: $56.60$38.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045759Author Keith E. StanovichFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 by Amy Livingstone 9780801448416
RRP: $99.49$85.22In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on... -
Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1: AS and 1st-Year A Level by Ken Browne 9781509516216
RRP: $22.28$20.48The 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... -
I Can Hear the Cuckoo: Life in the Wilds of Wales by Kiran Sidhu
RRP: $29.14$19.79'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... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: $29.16$25.08In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914 by Michael Mann
RRP: $60.02$48.71Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second volume deals with power relations between the... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: $22.28$15.59'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as... -
Eaten by the Internet: 2023 by Corinne Cath 9781913824044
RRP: $30.88$27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913824044Author Corinne CathFormat PaperbackImprint Meatspace PressPublisher Meatspace PressDimensions(mm) 204mm * 130mm * 10mm -
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze 9780008374990
RRP: $25.71$13.72Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this... -
Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A Kessler
RRP: $34.29$25.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062388520Author David A KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Democracy - The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9780765808684
RRP: $78.89$68.83The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its... -
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist by John Marzillier
RRP: $38.59$36.12An honest and accessible insight into the often closed world of psychotherapy. This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a... -
Good Relations: Cracking the code of how to get on better by Janet Reibstein 9781472992413
RRP: $17.14$12.20'The psychologist's guide to getting on with people' - The Times 'Brilliantly empowering and truly life-changing ... a must-read for improving relationships.' - Gwyneth Paltrow 'Utterly fantastic. Read immediately.' - Claudia Winkleman Do you... -
The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti 9780745641584
RRP: $25.71$23.29The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally... -
Politics of the Everyday by Ezio Manzini
RRP: $27.43$25.80Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. ... -
Law: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks
RRP: $15.42$11.34Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law... -
Why Won't You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner
RRP: $18.85$12.66With her trademark wit, Harriet Lerner offers a joyful and sanity-saving guide to setting things right. Renowned psychologist and bestselling author of The Dance of Anger sheds new light on the two most important words in the English language, "I'm... -
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $94.32$84.67This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the foundations of this new technology of power over... -
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology by Maan Barua 9781517912567
RRP: $44.58$37.81A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the... -
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
RRP: $17.14$12.20Now a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks 'Essential... -
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
RRP: $18.85$13.33'An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.' Daily Mail'A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life and technologies have... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $22.28$15.59From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time by Stephen A. Mitchell
RRP: $22.28$19.37Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships-it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk... -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: $27.43$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440064Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas by Levi Gahman
RRP: $42.87$33.26This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet's most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of... -
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland
RRP: $29.14$21.06THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA The Times Book of the Year 2022'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' - Christina... -
Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory by Stefan Eich 9780231212793
RRP: $54.89$41.63Seyla Benhabib's ongoing work has expanded the range and scope of critical theory beyond its origins to address questions of gender, migration, and difference. This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: $25.71$23.29Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and... -
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson 9780008607890
RRP: $18.85$12.44How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE...