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100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation Frank Furedi 9783110705577
RRP: €33.92€25.72The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the 'crisis... -
A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design by Laura B. Alvarez 9781032154152
RRP: €38.07€33.71This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality,... -
A General Theory Of Love, A by Thomas Lewis
RRP: €21.42€12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709227Author Thomas LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
How to Pass Higher Modern Studies: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
€15.96Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: May 2019Get your best grade with comprehensive course notes and advice from Scotland's top experts, fully updated for the latest changes to SQA Higher... -
Essential Concepts in Sociology Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781509548095
RRP: €17.84€16.16Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to... -
Might is Right: or the Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard 9781682040232
RRP: €11.76€10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682040232Author Ragnar RedbeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Metal-Inex IncPublisher Metal-Inex IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods (Collins Student Support Materials) by Steve Chapman
RRP: €14.27€11.48Exam 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... -
Growing Up With A Schizophrenic Mother by Margaret J. Brown 9780786408207
RRP: €17.84€14.93An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the... -
Spain - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Belen Aguado Viguer 9781787028647
RRP: €11.89€8.97Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. In the popular imagination Spain conjures up a picture of rapacious conquistadores, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough but how closely does everyday life in modern Spain... -
The Rage of a Privileged Class by Ellis Cose 9780060925949
RRP: €16.65€12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925949Author Ellis CoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices by E. O'Sullivan 9781403963055
RRP: €35.69€26.60In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an underlying ecological way of seeing and acting. Learning Towards... -
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies
RRP: €20.22€14.61A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers'A masterpiece' New York Times'Insightful and well-written' Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensHow have feelings come to shape the... -
The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel 9780415610117
RRP: €23.79€22.24With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: €41.59€33.55Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism... -
AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1 David Bown 9781471839399
€46.61Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject... -
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: €13.08€8.81Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: €15.46€10.82Barely 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... -
The Treason of the Intellectuals Julien Benda 9781412806237
RRP: €52.35€45.74Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by... -
My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: €15.46€10.23From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame. Through the voices of women, trans and non-binary people around the world and her own deeply moving... -
Manipulation: The Little-Known Secrets People High in Dark Triad Traits Know About Persuasion, Human Psychology, Analyzing Body Language, and Mind by Neil Morton 9781952559891
RRP: €29.74€20.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952559891Author Neil MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint PrimastaPublisher PrimastaWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Women and Career: Themes and Issues In Advanced Industrial Societies by Julia Evetts 9780582101944
€21.38Addresses the difficulties faced by women who embark on careers in the professions and considers the future of equal opportunties policies at a time of recession and high unemployment. It also explores the need to de-gender the concept of career in order... -
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg 9780691154510
RRP: €26.18€21.13It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous... -
Reimagining Britain: Foundations for Hope by Justin Welby
RRP: €15.46€11.65Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sets out a radical vision for 21st century Britain in this updated paperback edition. It is now three years since Justin Welby first published his Reimagining Britain. The fundamental message of that book remains... -
The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise by David Profumo 9781471186578
RRP: €11.89€7.63From award winning novelist and journalist David Profumo comes a dazzling work about the restorative power of nature and finding joy in simple pleasures. 'David Profumo has fished everywhere man and boy, and come back with his creel crammed with... -
In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745606590
RRP: €21.41€19.09Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of interviews, lectures and informal talks provides an... -
The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology by Derek Wall 9780262534703
€22.10An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability. The history of the commons-jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use-provides a... -
The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Search for True Love by Ty Tashiro
RRP: €20.22€11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335284792Author Ty TashiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing by John B. Thompson
RRP: €22.60€15.65This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book... -
The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem by Niko Kolodny
RRP: €54.68€43.66A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
€31.67The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less reticent... -
Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy Ruth Lister (Loughborough University and House of Lords) 9781447338383
RRP: €29.74€23.07Demonstrating 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... -
The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature by Michael Murphy 9780874777307
RRP: €39.27€28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874777307Author Michael MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 785Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g -
Social Capital by David Halpern 9780745625485
RRP: €29.74€26.43The concept of 'social capital' is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that facilitate individual and collective action. This explosion of... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
RRP: €17.84€17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
RRP: €17.84€13.98______________________ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life - if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own "To Do"... -
AQA A-level Sociology Student Guide 1: Education with theory and methods Dave O'Leary 9781510472020
€15.10Reinforce understanding of the content examined in A-level Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods, including Education, Methods in context, and Theory and methods.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style... -
How to Disagree: The Art and Science of Productive Conflict by Ian Leslie
RRP: €13.08€8.71A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR>Ian Leslie's acclaimed new book reveals the secrets of how to disagree without fighting, and shows how mastering the techniques of productive disagreement can transform every aspect of our lives. 'One of my favourite writers . ... -
Migration Studies and Colonialism Lucy Mayblin 9781509542949
RRP: €20.22€18.11The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: €10.70€7.68Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
Correspondences by Ingold
RRP: €19.03€17.15We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters...