Sociology

"There are a few secrets," he tells me. "A few discoveries that I've never published. Some of the most powerful ones. I wouldn't betray them under torture." In a time of deep fakes, alternative truths and leaked secrets, it would be easy to think that...

The 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...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and...

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America-and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-notsThe Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing...

Chivalry-with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor-was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954047426Author Colleen AvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Brave Healer ProductionsPublisher Brave Healer ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Jonathan 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915755087Author Alain De BenoistFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Arktos MediaPublisher Arktos MediaWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647801021Author Emory GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Modern Mind MediaPublisher Modern Mind MediaWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602061057Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015...

In this inspirational and practical guide to country life, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of rural Britain, its landscapes and wildlife, its traditions, customs and crafts. The Lost Skills and Crafts...

Why 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...

The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral...

The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when "fake news" and "alternative facts" call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739265601Author Kath AikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Women's Declaration InternationalPublisher Women's Declaration International

Fossil-Fuel Faulkner is the first book-length study of a single writer in the emerging field of the energy humanities. As we try to imagine our way beyond a deeply problematic fossil energy regime that depletes and degrades the planet and sharpens the...

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating...

Clare Holdsworth develops an account of everyday busyness by identifying busyness with a relational interpretation of time. She analyses a variety of secondary data sources – one-day diaries, self-help books on busyness and time management, accounts of a...

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Regarded by many as the most gifted and influential author and journalist in...

The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:- Gender is a social construct.-...

Happily Ever After is not by chance - it's By Choice. John and Julie Gottman are cofounders of the Gottman Institute, bestselling authors, and award-winning researchers. Together, they have a deep understanding of what makes relationships work. Now,...

"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." -The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." -The Atlantic * "Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the...

Exam 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396359Author Gavin HilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research - focusing,...

'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of...

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more...

Jigfoot is a hare who loves to dance. He dances to celebrate all that is around him. Join Jigfoot as he dances for joy and discover the heartbeat of his beautiful North Norfolk home. The book, which is beautifully illustrated seeks to immerse you...

An exhilarating and enchanting meditation on becoming a mother from one of America's most acclaimed writers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012. 'She is a winter-spring baby, and all day there is just her, me, snow and the...

One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled...

While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak. Irishisms examines...

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This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and society. It includes new chapters on children's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547422558Author Randy FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Francois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177140Author Cara PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Exam 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...