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Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Psychotherapists by Glyn Hudson-Allez
RRP: £42.95£37.57This 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... -
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 -
Land Sickness by N Schultz
RRP: £9.99£7.75As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
RRP: £25.00£22.03The 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: £20.99£16.44In 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 Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin 9780745664804
RRP: £19.99£17.69Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed... -
Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745626352
RRP: £15.99£14.41'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 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... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman 9781447336068
RRP: £19.99£15.76Politicians 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: £28.99£17.54From 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 Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices by Vincent Dubois 9781138306523
RRP: £47.99£41.81Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration,... -
The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins
RRP: £25.00£19.59The 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... -
Get Together: How to Build a Community With Your People by Bailey Richardson 9781732265196
RRP: £16.99£12.07A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL. Although communities feel magical, they don't come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew,... -
Life Support: The state of the NHS in an age of pandemics: 2022 by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: £20.00£14.88How 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... -
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and Our Money by Laura Clancy 9781526158758
RRP: £15.99£11.80In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.Running the Family Firm explores the... -
How to Catch a Mole: And Find Yourself in Nature by Marc Hamer
RRP: £12.99£9.09A 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... -
On Being Unreasonable: Why Being Bad Can Be a Force for Good by Kirsty Sedgman 9780571366866
RRP: £9.99£6.70We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers.In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir,... -
Flying Solo by Julia Wise 9781905664009
RRP: £9.95£6.78Apologies 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 World of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £16.99£15.22'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.' -... -
Affluenza by Oliver James
RRP: £16.99£12.28There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver... -
Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK by Martin Field
RRP: £9.99£7.99In 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... -
Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children by Sarah Grogan
RRP: £45.99£40.13Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.The new edition... -
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
RRP: £12.95£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529936Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Sport, Technology and the Body: The Nature of Performance by Tara Magdalinski
RRP: £44.99£39.28What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and... -
Freedom by Sebastian Junger
RRP: £8.99£6.02A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant... -
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
RRP: £25.99£22.49Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds by Benedict Macdonald
RRP: £19.99£16.82Rebirding takes the long view of Britain's wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar - and... -
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life by Robert Jervis
RRP: £50.00£39.12Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his... -
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature by Durre Shahwar 9781912489749
RRP: £10.99£7.00"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... -
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.'-Library Journal 'If you enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life . . . I highly recommend this book. . . . In the vein of Louis... -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: £10.99£7.93Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: £20.00£15.64"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Young
RRP: £43.99£38.44Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy." Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first... -
Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions by John Gray
RRP: £9.99£6.70By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the future of our species on this planet, the folly of our... -
Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: £10.99£7.78The celebrated, National Book Award winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to acquire."-Washington PostPulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, Richard Howard, gives readers the true voice of Baudelaire in this... -
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Professor W. Andy Knight
RRP: £27.99£24.95As media coverage of terrorism and terroristic acts has increased so too has the discussion about the identities, motives, and gender of the perpetrators. Over the past fifteen years, there have been over 150 reported suicide bombings committed by women... -
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour
RRP: £31.49£27.18Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden...