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Good Life by Helen Nearing
RRP: $25.71$16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805209709Author Scott NearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *... -
Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys by Steven Gaines
RRP: $24.00$15.78The 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 Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
RRP: $25.71$21.53The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it... -
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians by Margaret C. Jones
RRP: $25.71$18.78Alfred the Great's daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention by... -
To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: $17.14$12.20One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. 'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary... -
The I'm Grand Mamual by PJ Kirby 9780717198870
RRP: $24.00$16.72PJ Kirby and Kevin Twomey are two mammy's boys from Cork who are always up for a skit. The I'm Grand Mamual is Kevin and PJ's hilarious and heart-warming ode to their mammies, Phil and Nuala. Taking a different well-worn saying - such as 'We... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
RRP: $17.14$11.18'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... -
Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education by Martin Parker 9780745399164
RRP: $29.14$19.79Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In this lively and incendiary call to action, Martin Parker offers... -
The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach by Xueguang Zhou
$47.00Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: $22.28$15.59Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: $10.27$7.65In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $18.85$13.33Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Thinking Sociologically by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: $49.66$43.00Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations... -
Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: $15.42$11.06We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $51.46$37.65*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021**Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History*'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'Rollicking' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a... -
Understanding Bourdieu by Jenn Webb
RRP: $77.17$67.72"Bourdieu's work is formidable - the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion - take an apple, take a hanky - but take this book". - Peter Beilharz , La Trobe University "A good range of recent examples from popular culture are... -
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745624105
RRP: $27.43$24.72In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human... -
Internet Psychology: The Basics by Yair Amichai-Hamburger 9781138656062
RRP: $34.29$30.34We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activities, and interact with friends. The Internet's influence on contemporary society extends across every aspect... -
Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change by Linda Aspey 9781915220271
RRP: $41.15$38.37Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking... -
Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low
RRP: $34.29$30.07Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environmental... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: $17.14$11.39Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the... -
The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy by Eva Illouz
RRP: $27.43$24.72Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy... -
Apocalyptic Narratives: Science, Risk and Prophecy by Hauke Riesch 9781032006086
RRP: $65.16$59.52Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises... -
The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
RRP: $22.28$14.75*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'If we could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.'GUARDIAN'Explosive, timely and urgent'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Revealing, empathetic and timely'JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Brilliant, powerful and... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Social issues in 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 the course content and prepares students to cope with the increased emphasis on... -
A General Theory Of Love, A by Thomas Lewis
RRP: $30.88$19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709227Author Thomas LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation by David Hall
RRP: $18.85$12.69The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $18.85$13.33The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things... -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: $42.88$34.82This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system,... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: $18.85$13.33**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
Architecture for the Poor: Experiment in Rural Egypt by Hassan Fathy
RRP: $56.60$54.98This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia,... -
Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie
RRP: $25.71$17.50A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARBringing valuable lessons from the cutting edge of communication science, Conflicted does for our verbal communication what Thinking Fast and Slow did for our inner decision-making. 'One of my favourite writers . . ... -
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud by Herbert Marcuse 9781032533728
RRP: $30.86$27.51Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Eros and Civilization is one of... -
The Silent Child by MJ White
RRP: $17.14$11.00'One of the most striking crime novels of the year.' Daily MailA murdered schoolteacher. A police force under attack. A teen hiding secrets beneath silence.When a body is discovered at an abandoned Suffolk farm, DS Rob Minshull and the squad believes... -
Toward an Anthropology of Women by Rayna Reiter 9780853453994
$49.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853453994Author Rayna ReiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
<I>La Parisienne</i> in Cinema: Between Art and Life by Felicity Chaplin
RRP: $42.88$30.74Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines... -
Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology by Mike Cooley 9780851248493
RRP: $20.57$20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248493Author Mike CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Transgenerational Colonialism: Reconstructing Collective and Personal Identity by Karel James Bouse 9781793623997
RRP: $125.22$115.99In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse offers an alternative and holistic model for the analysis of colonialism and its effects on humanity. Using the current anti-colonialist struggle in Northern Ireland as a representative case study,... -
Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method by Herbert Blumer
RRP: $39.45$30.40This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It is written by the leading figure in the school of symbolic interactionism, and presents what... -
Goodbye 20Th Century: Sonic Youth and the rise of alternative nation by David Browne
RRP: $22.28$14.75There has never been a rock institution quite like Sonic Youth. Their distinctive, uncompromising sound provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, and in 2005, CMJ, the bible of the indie and alternative music work, ranked them no. 3 on its...