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Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault 9780415287531
RRP: $33.13$29.68In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual... -
REPAIR: When and How to Improve Broken Objects, Ourselves, and Our Society by Peter Erdi 9783030989071
RRP: $54.58$42.69This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology. By resources, the authors mean objects, such as cell phones and cars, and human resources, such as... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $25.33$17.73From 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... -
10 Skills for Effective Business Communication: Practical Strategies from the World's Greatest Leaders by Jessica Higgins, Jd
RRP: $29.23$18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641520980Author Jessica HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Tycho PressPublisher Tycho PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations: Process Views Joerg Sydow (Free University of Berlin, Germany) 9781787565920
RRP: $146.23$121.25This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of inter-organizational collaboration and explores new topics that call for inquiry. It shows that... -
Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys by Steven Gaines
$28.67The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines reveals the gothic tale of violence, addiction, greed,... -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: $31.18$20.44Apologies 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 Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland
RRP: $33.13$29.46THE 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... -
Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: $40.93$28.45Following 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... -
This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better Shain Shapiro 9781915672056
RRP: $25.33$16.77This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed. Told in an accessible way through... -
AQA A Level Sociology Student Book 1 (Collins AQA A Level Sociology) by Steve Chapman
RRP: $54.58$53.20Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This fourth edition of Collins' respected AQA A-level Sociology series is updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications... -
Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory by Stefan Eich 9780231212793
RRP: $62.40$48.28Seyla 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... -
Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change by Fikret Berkes 9780521061841
RRP: $99.43$82.76In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North... -
The Love Dare by Alex Kendrick 9781433679599
RRP: $31.18$24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433679599Author Alex KendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadman & Holman PublishersPublisher Broadman & Holman PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting 9781780277592
RRP: $21.43$14.27Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff 9780241645574
RRP: $48.75$36.33Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?Greg Lukianoff was one of the first to raise the alarm about the troubling social and psychological consequences of the growing intolerance of opposing viewpoints on... -
Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: $40.95$39.60Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: $23.38$18.92In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
RRP: $21.43$12.71'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The TimesRediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard MabeyIn the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost... -
100 Nature Walks National Trust 9781911657200
RRP: $25.33$16.54A glorious celebration of nature and the simple pleasures of walking. This pocket-sized book has a perfect country walk for every time of year. The 100 walks show you the highlights of every season, from the... -
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison 9780099440727
RRP: $31.18$22.64In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did you Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth about the... -
The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher
RRP: $52.65$35.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112709Author Kate AscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 275mm *... -
Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London by Asa Briggs
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1837, in England and Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London's population more than doubled.In this companion volume to Victorian People and Victorian... -
The Feel The Fear Guide To... Lasting Love: How to create a superb relationship for life by Susan Jeffers
RRP: $25.33$17.73Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway has sold a million copies round the world since 1987, and is still one of the top ten bestsellers in the category of personal development. In this book, Susan Jeffers takes the approach and practical strategies that made... -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: $25.33$16.83Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: $25.33$9.18Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year... -
Living Together: Searching for Community in a Fractured World by Mim Skinner
RRP: $29.23$19.46'I loved it! Brilliantly written, probing and necessary' PANDORA SYKES'Skinner goes in search of a different way of life . . . a sensitive and colourful account' New StatesmanFrom the author of Jailbirds and one of Elle's '50 Game Changers' (2019) comes... -
The Yorkshire Vet: In the Footsteps of Herriot Peter Wright 9781912624232
RRP: $17.53$12.58As featured on BBC Breakfast.A warm, engaging and witty memoir from the star of Channel 5's The Yorkshire Vet.This is the life story of vet Peter Wright, charting his working relationship with the famous 'James Herriot', from work experience with him as... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: $54.58$50.02Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: $35.08$31.28This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case 9780691217079
RRP: $29.23$20.14A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom... -
Introduction to Systems Theory by Niklas Luhmann 9780745645728
RRP: $37.03$32.90Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of disciplines... -
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan D. Stark 9780195384048
RRP: $61.41$53.14One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters,... -
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
RRP: $17.53$12.58There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction... -
Reasons to be Hopeful: what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
RRP: $38.98$27.71An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so... -
Democracy - The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9780765808684
RRP: $91.63$79.89The 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 Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han 9780804794602
RRP: $23.38$21.33Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone... -
Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis by Margaret Wetherell
RRP: $83.83$69.07`A highly effective introduction which gives readers a clear sense of how to analyze discourse data and then employ the analytic approaches in their own research' - David Silverman, Goldsmith's College, University of London This workbook will be... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: $25.33$23.28The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything...