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The World of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 9780415773812
RRP: $33.13$29.68'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: $35.00$19.70Written 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: $35.08$26.91In 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... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: $19.48$13.40'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball 'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what it looks like is love' Evening Standard The... -
For the Culture: The Power Behind the World's Most Successful Brands, from Apple to Beyonce Marcus Collins 9781035020010
RRP: $39.00$27.87From 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: $19.48$15.58In 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... -
Intoxication: The Universal Pursuit of Mind-Altering Substances by K.Ronald Siegel 9781594770692
RRP: $37.03$33.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594770692Author K.Ronald SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Park Street Press,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom by Danielle Sarver Coombs 9781032224350
RRP: $87.73$76.60This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement. It gives a comprehensive overview of the undeniable... -
Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility by Margaret S. Archer 9780521696937
RRP: $72.13$59.14How do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through 'internal conversations' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this 'inner-dialogue' and... -
Deeper Into the Wood by Ruth Pavey 9780715654279
RRP: $29.23$21.29In 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... -
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theory and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus 9780745616216
RRP: $48.73$44.48This 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... -
Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: $21.43$16.95The 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... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles 9780241470923
RRP: $48.75$42.49'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times'A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme... -
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
RRP: $46.78$40.64Winner, 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... -
Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
RRP: $77.98$68.37Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and 'others', including dyslexics,... -
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend
RRP: $29.23$19.11'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... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745639871
RRP: $19.48$17.45The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough... -
We Are Family by Susan Golombok
RRP: $19.48$13.07An insight into new ways of becoming a parent by a world-leading expert. Families come in all shapes and sizes: from the nuclear two-parent two-child unit to gay families, trans families, single parents, and babies conceived using donor eggs, sperm, or... -
Goodbye 20Th Century: Sonic Youth and the rise of alternative nation David Browne 9780749929411
RRP: $25.33$16.77There has never been a rock institution quite like Sonic Youth. Their distinctive, uncompromising sound provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, and in 2005, CMJ, the bible of the indie and alternative music work, ranked them no. 3 on its... -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: $21.43$15.46Jonathan 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: $39.00$30.50"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 Michael Young 9781560007043
RRP: $85.78$74.96Michael 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... -
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds by Benedict Macdonald
RRP: $38.98$32.80Rebirding 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... -
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Professor W. Andy Knight
RRP: $52.63$45.47As 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... -
Messengers by Julian Sayarer
RRP: $17.53$12.09AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016"Julian's tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same... -
Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze Svend Brinkmann 9781509514267
RRP: $29.23$19.11The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting - constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: $21.43$15.15Living 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... -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: $35.08$25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract Minouche Shafik 9781529112795
RRP: $19.48$13.86LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century.'Excellent... Shafik points us toward...a hopeful framework for... -
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood Jennifer Senior 9780349005539
RRP: $21.43$14.43Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits,... -
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
RRP: $25.33$17.73Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.About the... -
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb Pool
RRP: $19.48$12.71A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I stepped off... -
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
RRP: $25.25$21.90Apologies 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 -
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
RRP: $13.63$11.45In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives... -
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack 9780674248243
RRP: $31.10$25.55An NPR Favorite Book of the Year"Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import."-Washington Post"An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students... -
Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life by M. J. Ryan 9781573247108
RRP: $25.25$18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573247108Author M. J. RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 0g -
An Introduction to Sociology Ken Browne (North Warwickshire and Hinckley College) 9781509528004
RRP: $42.88$39.66This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology Workbook Paper 2: The sociology of crime and deviance and social stratification David Bown 9781510435193
$18.37Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with this skills-focused, topic-specific workbook.- Prepare students to meet the demands of Paper 2 of... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: $25.33$17.73'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as... -
Colombia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Cathey 9781857338867
RRP: $19.48$14.70Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...