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I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class John Medhurst 9781914420344
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... -
Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy Ruth Lister (Loughborough University and House of Lords) 9781447338383
RRP: £24.99£19.39Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory. The updated text includes consideration of... -
House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address by Michael Gross 9781451666205
RRP: £19.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451666205Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm -
The Future of Wales by Rhys Thomas 9781911545637
RRP: £8.99£6.20Wales 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... -
Crystallizing Public Opinion (Original Classic) by Edward Bernays 9781722502805
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722502805Author Edward BernaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: £11.99£9.00This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the... -
AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods (Collins Student Support Materials) by Steve Chapman
RRP: £11.99£9.59Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: A-level SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Collins Student Support Materials provide an essential course companion and revision aid. Written by experienced teachers and senior... -
The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide Anthony Majanlahti 9781844134090
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... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
The Arts of Leadership by Keith Grint 9780199244898
RRP: £67.00£53.06Leadership is still much discussed, studied, and sought after, even though we now live in supposedly more democratic times with flatter organizations and empowered employees. But how can we best understand leadership? Are leaders born or made? Do they... -
Spark Learns to Fly Judith Foxon 9781905664184
RRP: £9.95£6.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664184Author Judith FoxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)... -
The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it by Melissa S. Kearney 9781800753747
RRP: £22.00£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800753747Author Melissa S. KearneyFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
RRP: £18.99£12.83ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH?Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on the doldrums by taking a cheerleading class. Then -... -
Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior by Nick Kolenda 9780615815657
RRP: £13.95£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615815657Author Nick KolendaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Kolenda Entertainment, LLCPublisher Kolenda Entertainment, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Haralambos and Holborn - Sociology Themes and Perspectives by Michael Haralambos
RRP: £44.99£43.83Level: A-level, undergraduate Subject: Sociology Themes and Perspectives is your essential A-level and undergraduate sociology guide. It's fully updated to match the latest sociology... -
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £54.99£49.36This 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... -
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America by Doug McAdam 9780199937851
RRP: £26.99£22.31The United States is now more starkly divided in political terms than at any time since the end of Reconstruction and more unequal in material terms than on the eve of the Great Depression. How did we go from the bipartisan cooperation and relative... -
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill 9781787383685
RRP: £25.00£22.43Every 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... -
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews-David
RRP: £23.99£19.16From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly... -
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck
RRP: £48.99£39.74This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: £9.99£6.64Tales 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... -
McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence by James Penner 9780199584345
£56.18Fully updated and revised by James Penner and Emmanuel Melissaris, McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence clearly breaks down the complexities of this often daunting yet fascinating subject. Sophisticated ideas are explained concisely and with... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain Lisa Mckenzie 9781447309956
RRP: £16.99£13.58While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £8.99£6.45Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen... -
Rhodes Walk & Eat Sunflower Guide: Walks, Restaurants and Recipes Brian and Eileen Anderson 9781856915434
RRP: £8.99£5.78Pocket-sized, full-colour guide to Rhodes, ideal for an active short break. Rhodes Sunflower Walk and Eat pocket guide is designed to add another dimension to your walking holiday in Rhodes.It's ideal if you want an easy stroll or a longer walk and is... -
How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children by Rachel Chrastil 9780190918620
RRP: £38.99£32.28In How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessness, putting this often-overlooked legacy in conversation with the issues that childless women and men face... -
Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know by David Stainforth 9780198812937
RRP: £20.00£14.69This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others. Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we... -
A Level Media Studies: The Essential Introduction Pete Bennett 9781138285897
RRP: £35.99£32.09A Level Media Studies is a comprehensive guide to the subject content of AS and A Level Media Studies, across all examining boards. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of both students and teachers with an accessible writing style, helpful... -
The The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: £11.99£9.70In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £30.00£21.95*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... -
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us Dr Brian Klaas 9781529338089
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Pertinent!' Margaret Atwood'Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' Adam Grant'Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out the story of the... -
Sociology for Social Workers Anne Llewellyn (Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care, Leeds Metropolitan University) 9780745660332
RRP: £29.99£27.04The second edition of this major textbook clearly shows how sociology can inform professional social work practice in the twenty-first century. It provides an easy-to-follow, jargon-free introduction to sociology for social work students, with crucial... -
Rumours of a Better Country: Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage by Marsh Moyle 9781789744675
RRP: £19.99£14.28Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any... -
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
RRP: £9.99£7.58A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves. "Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so... -
Critical Chain: A Business Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
RRP: £32.99£29.16This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like... -
Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this moving and authoritative work which combines dedicated research and interviews with victims of childhood abuse and neglect, psychotherapist Linda Sanford passionately refutes the received wisdom that such people are trapped in a vicious circle of... -
Counselling Couples in Relationships: An Introduction to the RELATE Approach Christopher Butler 9780471977780
RRP: £54.95£47.69RELATE (originally the National Marriage Guidance Council) is probably the largest and most successful service of its kind in the world. For over 50 years, helping many hundreds of thousands of couples and individuals, it has developed an approach to... -
The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life by Charles Derber 9780195135497
RRP: £16.49£12.39"Enough about me," goes the old joke, "what about you? What do you think about me?" Hence the pursuit of attention is alive and well. Even the Oxford English Dictionary reveals a modern coinage to reflect the chase in our technological age: 'ego-surfing'... -
Wildwoods: The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands by Richard Nairn
RRP: £14.99£10.95Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying - and learning from - nature. When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside a fast-flowing river, he set about understanding all its moods and seasons,... -
Summer: Vintage Minis by Laurie Lee
RRP: £5.99£4.46How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were...