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Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £20.99£14.59Following 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... -
What Would the Aunties Say?: A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life by Anchal Seda
RRP: £8.99£5.82'Packed with stories and advice that will have you laughing and crying.' - CosmopolitanIn this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brown girls" from Indian,... -
Girlhood Unfiltered: A Milk Honey Bees essay collection by Ebinehita Iyere 9781913311179
RRP: £7.99£5.23An anthology of essays, letters, and creative work reflecting on the experience of Black girlhood, by an inspiring group of teenage girls. The voices of young Black girls are too often left out of conversations on the Black girl experience; in this... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy by John M. Gottman 9780393702828
RRP: £38.99£35.59Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 9780679721109
£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721109Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
What Would the Aunties Say? by Anchal Seda
RRP: £12.99£8.18In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brown girls" from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh living in the Western world. What Would the Aunties Say? is packed full... -
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: £16.00£12.79As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
Networking: The Art of Making Friends by Carole Stone
£6.82 - £9.09With more than 14,000 entries in her electronic address book, Carole Stone is a self-confessed people addict who has turned networking and making friends into an art form. Packed with top tips and real-life scenarios, this is your essential guide to... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: £19.99£18.09No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First... -
Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents by Monica Sharma
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948958Author Monica SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Failure by Arjun Appadurai 9781509504725
RRP: £12.99£11.94Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by... -
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.40Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level... -
The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens by David Brooks
£3.54 - £8.60David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, revealing a fundamental new understanding of human nature. He outlines a new definition of success, highlighting what economists call non-cognitive skills -... -
The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel 9780415610117
RRP: £19.99£18.69With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The... -
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality by Erin Cech
RRP: £25.00£19.18Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid... -
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg 9781487521851
RRP: £19.99£18.18If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless... -
Census and Social Structure by Richard Lawton
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording births, deaths and marriages, population numbers and trends,... -
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £16.99£15.22The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest... -
Outsiders by Howard S. Becker 9781982106225
RRP: £11.99£7.59One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance.Howard S. Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early 1960s-and the ideas it proposed and problems it raised... -
Workplace Intelligence: Unconscious Forces and How to Manage Them by Anton Obholzer
RRP: £27.99£24.28Workplace Intelligence provides a range of insights into the unconscious processes at play in the workplace and an introduction to a balanced approach to organizations.The book explores key concepts, showing how our emotions and early experiences inform... -
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: £10.99£7.40Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the... -
Parents, Poverty and the State: 20 Years of Evolving Family Policy by Naomi Eisenstadt 9781447348276
RRP: £13.99£11.40Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim explore the radical changes in public attitudes and public policy concerning parents and parenting. Drawing on research and their extensive experience of working at senior levels of government, they argue convincingly... -
Human Givens: An empowering approach to emotional health and clear thinking by Joe Griffin 9781899398928
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this seminal book, the authors exquisitely describe one of the most important psychological insights of our age: how we all come into the world with a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure-house of innate knowledge patterns: the 'human... -
The Future of Wales by Rhys Thomas 9781911545637
RRP: £8.99£6.26Wales is a nation of contradictions. It boasts incredible natural resources and crushing poverty; fierce patriotism and a stark north/south divide; an energy surplus, and some of the highest bills in the UK. It also has a famously rugby-mad culture - but... -
After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis by Latour
RRP: £14.99£9.80After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to 'the world as it was before the pandemic'. But there is another way to... -
Building Open Relationships: Your hands on guide to swinging, polyamory, and beyond! by Liz Powell 9780692151594
RRP: £25.00£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692151594Author Liz PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Dr. Liz PowellPublisher Dr. Liz PowellWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Like Mother, Like Daughter?: How Career Women Influence their Daughters' Ambition by Jill Armstrong 9781447334088
RRP: £85.99£66.10Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. Who better to be a role model for career success than your mother? Paradoxically, this book shows that having a mother as a... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: £10.99£8.41Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern... -
Resonance, A Sociology of the Relationship to the World by H Rosa
RRP: £18.99£17.27The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in "resonance." The... -
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson
RRP: £14.99£13.03Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability... -
I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class by John Medhurst
RRP: £18.99£13.15I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North". In doing... -
Mate by Tucker Max 9780316349437
RRP: £21.99£15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316349437Author Tucker MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Volume 1 by Jurgen Habermas 9780745603865
RRP: £19.99£18.09Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermas's long-awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action. This pathbreaking work is guided by three interrelated concerns: (1) to develop a concept of communicative rationality... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
£3.39 - £7.71This 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... -
The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide by Anthony Majanlahti
RRP: £16.99£12.28How often does a visitor to Rome drift towards some landmark and wonder who created it? Why? What was their story? This fascinating book provides the answers. At once a history and a guide, it divides Rome into the districts dominated by the fabulously... -
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison 9780099440727
£3.39 - £11.61In 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... -
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein
RRP: £28.99£24.28This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in... -
All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies by Dani Robertson 9780008586720
RRP: £16.99£11.27Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes 'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging' - Forbes Why darkness is so important - to plants, to animals, and to ourselves - and why we... -
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill 9781787383685
RRP: £25.00£21.98Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't she leave? Instead, we should ask: Why...