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Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying by Christine Longaker 9780385483322
£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483322Author Christine LongakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will... -
Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success by Sam Goldstein 9783030650889
RRP: £19.99£15.24Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins 9780415057981
RRP: £29.99£26.64This short critical introduction to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's original writings are often densely argued and ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasises... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212010
RRP: £41.95£36.73The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge by Catherine Tan 9780231206136
RRP: £28.00£21.80Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine... -
Social Mobility and Education in Britain: Research, Politics and Policy by Erzsebet Bukodi
RRP: £26.99£22.80Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in social mobility and their relation to educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary to what is widely supposed, Bukodi and Goldthorpe's findings... -
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption by Phillip Brown
RRP: £29.49£19.04Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?,... -
Moo's Law: An Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution by Jim Mellon 9780993047862
RRP: £14.99£9.98Moo's Law is the latest title from successful investor Jim Mellon, to help readers understand the investment landscape in cultivated and plant-based proteins and materials. Jim has a vision that within the next couple of decades world agriculture will be... -
If You Can't Quit Crying, You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America by Betty Frizzell
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311014Author Betty FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Time by Giovanni Arrighi
£20.62The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries," each of which produced a new world power that... -
Psychology and Social Work: Applied Perspectives by Gabriela Misca 9780745696317
RRP: £16.99£15.22Successful social work practice is underpinned by knowledge, theories and research findings from a range of related disciplines, key among which is psychology. This timely book offers a grounded and engaging guide to psychology's vital role at the heart... -
Crowds and Power by Professor Elias Canetti 9780374518202
RRP: £28.00£17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374518202Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
A1 - The Great North Road by Paul Graham
RRP: £45.00£43.09A1 - The Great North Road was Paul Graham's first book, published in 1983. Despite the UK having a vibrant photographic scene at the time, there were only handful of monographic books - Chris Killip and Martin Parr had one each - and no dedicated... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: £20.00£14.29CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York TimesA riveting insider... -
Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities by Fritz Wagner 9781138084865
RRP: £37.99£33.38What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nurture the cause of livable communities?Using a blend of theory and practice, the second edition of Community Livability... -
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy
RRP: £9.99£6.99Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges... -
Sociology: Introductory Readings by Anthony Giddens 9781509549139
RRP: £19.99£18.09The fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought and practice today. The... -
Going to Seed: From Flower Child to Radical Farmer, a Counterculture Memoir by Simon Fairlie
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in... -
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
RRP: £13.99£11.32America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the... -
The Relationship Skills Workbook: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship by Julia B. Colwell 9781622032273
RRP: £15.99£14.97What are the ingredients of a successful and enduring relationship? Love, passion, and commitment are all vital-yet without certain basic skills, even the most devoted partners can find themselves descending into arguments, power struggles, and... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621660
RRP: £19.99£17.53The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes,... -
Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly
RRP: £50.00£43.81Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public... -
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
RRP: £15.99£14.87The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC... -
Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand by David Engel
RRP: £21.99£19.40Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into... -
Adorno's Critique of Political Economy: The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19 by Dirk Braunstein 9781642599923
RRP: £35.00£23.04A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno.To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx-and especially to Marx's critique of... -
Second Thoughts: On Having and Being a Second Child by Lynn Berger
RRP: £10.99£7.46While every parent knows more of what to expect the next time round, the birth of a second child is no less momentous. Family relationships multiply, birth-order myths hover and sibling rivalry and parental exhaustion threaten. Yet the potential for joy... -
England's Witchcraft Trials by Willow Winsham 9781473870949
£16.57Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. With the echo of that chilling injunction hundreds were accused and tried for witchcraft across England throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. With fear and suspicion rife, neighbour could turn against... -
Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives by Robert Springborg
RRP: £100.00£91.32Recent discussions of the 'Chinese economic development model', the emergence of an alternative 'Muslim model' over the past quarter century and the faltering globalisation of the 'Washington Consensus' all point to the need to investigate more... -
What is Critical Social Research? (Volume 1) by Babak Fozooni 9781780352794
£8.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780352794Author Babak FozooniFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 16mm -
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams 9780063090248
RRP: £34.00£23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090248Author Sara Nisha AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 224mm... -
Community by Peter Block
RRP: £24.00£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095568Author Peter BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: £15.99£12.91How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: £22.99£17.94Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
A Way Forward for Humanity: The Spiritual Basis of the Findhorn Community by Carol Riddell 9781495321979
RRP: £5.50£5.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495321979Author Carol RiddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Mr Pim by A.A. Milne 9781788424516
RRP: £9.99£7.13Gentle chaos sets in when the absent-minded Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, bearing some innocent news... George is a fine upstanding citizen and a stickler for doing the right thing. He has a devoted wife, Olivia, and is guardian to his... -
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun 9781611854671
RRP: £14.99£9.80When 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... -
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: £20.00£13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036678Author Stephanie CoontzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
We're Falling Through Space: Doctor Who and Celebrating the Mundane by J. David Reed 9781912489763
RRP: £7.50£4.94It's one of modern history's most beloved sci-fi creations and while the Doctor is revered world-round, what about their companions, friends and acquaintances along the way? For all the time travel and extravagant alien worlds, Doctor Who is often at its... -
The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive: Adventures with the world's oldest off-road cycling club by Mark Hudson 9780995488656
RRP: £32.00£26.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488656Author Mark HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 950g