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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: €11.89€8.46In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is... -
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal
RRP: €28.55€25.28"Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described-or indeed, better explained..... -
Urban Regeneration in the UK by Andrew Tallon
RRP: €42.83€38.19This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary... -
The All-or-nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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 -
Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz 9780333964309
€89.38Winner of The Deutscher Memorial Prize 2004. In a completely reworked edition of his classic (1991) volume, Michael A. Lebowitz explores the implications of the book on wage-labour that Marx originally intended to write. Focusing upon critical... -
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
RRP: €10.70€7.24When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were... -
Burma's Spring: Real Lives in Turbulent Times Rosalind Russell 9786167339559
RRP: €10.70€7.38"Rosalind Russell has written an extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story of Burma in a remarkably human way - essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Burma today." Benedict Rogers, author of Burma: A Nation At the... -
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
RRP: €15.46€10.23In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for... -
Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930 by Richard Dennis 9780521468411
RRP: €45.21€37.73What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this period, drawing its evidence principally from London, New York and... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: €7.13€5.31In 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... -
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities Veronica Davis 9781642832099
RRP: €30.94€25.82Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the... -
Organizational Behaviour 4E by Daniel King 9780192893475
RRP: €66.63€64.13Have you ever wondered: * what motivates some people to work for free? * what the future of work will look like in a post-pandemic world? * why organizational values and culture are so critical to success? The authors explore the answers to these... -
The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley Alistair Moffat 9781838851149
RRP: €13.08€8.71The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those... -
To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: €11.89€8.46One 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... -
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich 9780714508795
RRP: €11.89€9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714508795Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Critical Mass by Philip Ball
RRP: €13.08€9.25Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can... -
A Plague on All Our Sports: When Covid and Sport Collided Bill Ribbans 9781801506687
RRP: €17.84€13.03A Plague on All Our Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided, examining the impact of the pandemic through a unique lens. The book's two authors have each spent many years in sport: Mark Saggers as a radio and TV sports... -
Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present by Gary Browning 9780761959267
RRP: €61.88€50.81Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the... -
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews-David
RRP: €28.55€22.80From 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... -
The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory: Paperback Edition by Anthony Bryant 9781849204781
RRP: €66.63€55.05Grounded Theory is by far the most widely used research method across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas, including social sciences, nursing and healthcare, medical sociology, information systems, psychology, and anthropology. This handbook... -
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Psychotherapists Glyn Hudson-Allez 9781861564955
RRP: €51.11€44.71This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers physiological information about genitalia, variations on... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
RRP: €29.75€26.22The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely... -
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780822334422
RRP: €22.60€18.74In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first... -
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler 9780804728126
RRP: €28.55€24.80As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is... -
The I'm Grand Mamual by PJ Kirby 9780717198870
RRP: €16.65€11.60PJ 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... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science) 9781447336068
RRP: €23.79€18.75Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show... -
How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by PhD Peter H Kim
RRP: €34.50€20.37From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities. When our trust is broken, and when our own trustworthiness is called into question, many of us are left... -
The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins
RRP: €29.75€23.31The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins's claim that the expansion of American education... -
Life Support: The state of the NHS in an age of pandemics: 2022 by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: €23.80€17.71How good is the NHS, really? That is the question this book seeks to answer, as the health service emerges from the gravest crisis in its history with more money - but greater challenges - than ever before. During the pandemic, voters made... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745610771
RRP: €21.41€19.09This 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... -
Flying Solo by Julia Wise 9781905664009
RRP: €11.84€8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664009Author Julia WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams) 160g -
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
RRP: €23.80€16.07The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of DinosaursA gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great... -
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature by Durre Shahwar 9781912489749
RRP: €13.08€8.33"The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed." Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK... -
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: €35.70€27.72What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the... -
How to Catch a Mole: And Find Yourself in Nature by Marc Hamer
RRP: €15.46€10.82A captivating, life-affirming memoir of a life in nature that celebrates finding wonder in our world. 'A wonderful book... It has taught me a lot. I feel great love for it' MAX PORTERAt the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and... -
The World of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 9780415773812
RRP: €20.22€18.11'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' -... -
The Book of the Dead by Murial Rukeyser
RRP: €21.36€12.02Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American... -
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit by Dmitry Orlov 9780865717367
RRP: €21.41€16.42In the face of political impotence, resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. However, popular perception of how this future might actually unfold varies wildly from "a severe and... -
For the Culture: The Power Behind the World's Most Successful Brands, from Apple to Beyonce Marcus Collins 9781035020010
RRP: €23.80€17.01From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyonce, discover the powerful force behind what we buy, what we do, and who we want to be . . .'Compelling and vivid' - Robert Cialdini, author of Pre-SuasianWe all try to influence others in our daily... -
Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK Martin Field (Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University) 9781447344391
RRP: €11.89€9.51In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they want. Giving context to contemporary practices in the...