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Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38Separation, 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... -
Mods by Richard Barnes
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651738Author Richard BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
The Sociology of Health and Illness by S Nettleton
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $38.54Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition integrates fresh... -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club by Kit Holden 9780715654859
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35SHORTLISTED 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 Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward 9781479804467
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual... -
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780140092332
Booksplease Price: $26.02A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace... -
Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, power and possibilities Lincoln Allison (University of Warwick, UK) 9781138820494
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $83.94The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations). The IOC, FIFA, IAAF and the FIA wield global influence, but how exactly do such complex organisations operate? This important book... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... -
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis by Julie Peakman 9781789148473
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.38Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences of women, whether mistresses, adulteresses or those involved in the sex trade. From renowned... -
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1963 and Pulitzer Prize 1964 and Sidney Hillman Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9780394703176Author Richard... -
Grenfell Tower: Preparedness, Race and Disaster Capitalism by John Preston 9783319968506
Booksplease Price: $117.12The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was... -
On Being Unreasonable: Why Being Bad Can Be a Force for Good by Kirsty Sedgman 9780571366866
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment by Stephanie Taylor 9783319660370
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $152.96This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker... -
Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Accused Persons in Criminal Proceedings: Good practices throughout the European Union by Coral Aranguena Fanego 9783030611767
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $87.53Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings. It is the result of a... -
Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics Aaron Panofsky 9780226058450
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $47.88Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene," claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Many... -
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.65Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers... -
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M. E. O'Brien
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.10'An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary 'beloved community' for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!' Sophie Lewis, author... -
History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today by Max Singer 9780739164877
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $55.15History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The... -
Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by Paula Prober 9780692713105
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $29.27Apologies 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 -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The acclaimed sociologist's landmark, compassionate work on how society treats those who are different'By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human'In ancient times stigma were physical marks branded on people... -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Apologies 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)... -
Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz 9780306811913
Booksplease Price: $33.47Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's death, acclaimed music writer David Ritz has created a full-scale portrait of the brilliant but tormented artist. With a cast of characters that includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, and... -
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9780745671079
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely... -
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey 9781780326351
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.97Deliberate ignorance has been known as the 'Ostrich Instruction' in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid... -
Wealth And Poverty Of Nations by David S. Landes
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex,... -
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $29.93For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links... -
Work and Organizational Behaviour by John Bratton
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $95.82Critical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages readers to reflect on the realities of the workplace. Work and Organizational Behaviour takes a unique and... -
Foula: Island West of the Sun by Sheila Gear 9780648920489
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648920489Author Sheila GearFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Countryside History: The Life and Legacy of Oliver Rackham by Ian D. Rotherham 9781784273163
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $98.24Like one of the ancient trees he wrote about so elegantly and perceptively, Oliver Rackham’s roots run deep while his influence branches far. He was undoubtedly the leading scholar in landscape history and historical ecology, and his work continues to... -
Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism by Daniel Diehl
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK, Second Edition Frank Cooney 9781510429147
Booksplease Price: $56.81Exam 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... -
Politics of Affect Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.89'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... -
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation Alicia Etchegoyen 9781583911747
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $77.95It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this.Issues such as high divorce rates, new family structures, increased mobility, women's... -
Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom by Brett Scott
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.24Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the... -
To Have or To Be? Erich Fromm 9781780936802
Booksplease Price: $58.36To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric... -
Leaning on Gates Seamus O'Rourke 9781804580370
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.95In the sequel to Seamus O'Rourke's popular first memoir, Standing in Gaps, this innocent Leitrim lad finally flees the nest, briefly sampling life in New York, Dublin and London - before inevitably returning to his beloved, duller than dishwater... -
The Little Book of Humanist Weddings by Andrew Copson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84From the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of HumanismA humanist wedding ceremony allows couples the freedom to express their love in a completely personal way - and choose what marriage means to them.In a beautiful collection of... -
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.48"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to... -
Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories by Asta
RRP: $80.83Booksplease Price: $57.67We 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... -
The Student's Companion to Social Policy Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781119744870
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $67.01The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible...