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I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class by John Medhurst
RRP: $32.57$22.56I 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: $37.72$27.51Apologies 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: $34.29$31.03Here, 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
RRP: $18.85$13.22This 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: $29.14$21.06How 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
RRP: $27.43$19.91In 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: $49.73$41.65This 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: $29.14$19.33Best 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: $42.88$37.70Every 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... -
Spark Learns to Fly by Judith Foxon 9781905664184
RRP: $17.07$11.72Apologies 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 Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: $114.91$99.20An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
RRP: $32.57$22.01ARE 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 -... -
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
RRP: $24.00$16.72In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain by Lisa McKenzie 9781447309956
RRP: $29.14$23.29While 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... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: $30.86$27.51This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of... -
Deeper Into the Wood by Ruth Pavey 9780715654279
RRP: $25.71$18.29In the late 1990s, Ruth Pavey bought four acres of scrub land above the Somerset Levels. She devoted the next two decades to improving the land into a lush wood; a haven for birds, insects and all manner of wildlife. Beneath the shade of the trees, she... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets by Jennifer Kavanagh
RRP: $17.14$11.66In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface,... -
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City by Dale Leorke 9780367618193
RRP: $65.16$57.26This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city... -
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism by Sarah Ahmed
RRP: $82.32$72.40With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, Transformations traces both the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point, and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with... -
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions by Todd Rose
RRP: $32.57$20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306925696Author Todd RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette GoPublisher Hachette GoWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Rumours of a Better Country: Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage by Marsh Moyle 9781789744675
RRP: $34.29$24.49Hyper-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... -
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theory and Political Significance by Rolf Wiggershaus 9780745616216
RRP: $42.87$39.13This widely acclaimed book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history and ideas of the Frankfurt School - the most important and influential group of leftist intellectuals, philosophers and social theorists in Germany this century... -
The All-or-nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
RRP: $29.14$19.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101984345Author Eli J. FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: $22.28$15.59Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the... -
Rhodes Walk and Eat Sunflower Guide: Walks, Restaurants and Recipes by Brian and Eileen Anderson 9781856915434
RRP: $15.42$10.63Pocket-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... -
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America by Lawrence Wright
RRP: $18.85$13.33'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a... -
Building Dignified Worlds: Geographies of Collective Action by Gerda Roelvink 9780816683178
RRP: $41.15$35.01Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers... -
Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities by Conrad Hughes
RRP: $63.45$55.80Education and Elitism discusses polemical debates around privilege, private schools, elitist universities, equal access to education and underlying notions of fairness. The overarching question that runs through the book is about the future of education... -
Icons of England by Bill Bryson
RRP: $18.85$13.33This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly... -
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre 9781472507167
RRP: $37.72$35.32Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the... -
The The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $20.57$13.48In 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... -
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by Dr Brian Klaas 9781529338089
RRP: $34.31$22.90'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... -
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
RRP: $17.14$13.00A 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... -
The Waters and the Wild: The Trials and Tranquilities of a Journey on Ireland's Waterways by Gwen Wilkinson
RRP: $25.71$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374494Author Gwen WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Sport Heritage by Gregory Ramshaw
RRP: $82.32$71.72This book brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. It provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, marketing,... -
The Vegan Guide: Everything you need to embrace the world's fastest growing way of life by Alex Bourke
RRP: $8.58$6.55The Vegan Guide covers everything you need to embrace the world's fastest growing way of life. It covers all the issues including why vegan, the latest nutrition information (older books will be out of date on vitamin B12 in particular), cooking... -
Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford
RRP: $18.85$12.69In 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 by Christopher Butler 9780471977780
RRP: $94.26$81.80RELATE (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... -
A Land of Dreams: A Study of Jewish and Caribbean Migrant Communities in England by Simon Taylor 9781032317205
RRP: $49.73$43.04A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of London, and the growth of an African-Caribbean community in Birmingham. It is an ethnographic study of two... -
Summer: Vintage Minis by Laurie Lee
RRP: $10.27$7.65How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were...