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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman
€43.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930350918Author Erving GoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Northeastern University PressPublisher Northeastern University Press -
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 by Andrew Lees 9780521548229
RRP: €34.50€30.73This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization, with the populations of numerous cities growing by... -
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz 9781476702728
€13.84As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of... -
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English Country House Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: €15.46€14.02This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and... -
Architecture for the Poor: Experiment in Rural Egypt by Hassan Fathy
RRP: €39.27€38.14This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia,... -
Against Creativity by Oli Mould
RRP: €11.89€9.72From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated as agile,... -
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam 9780195150896
RRP: €96.39€87.68The recent, highly sucessful publication of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam, has attracted new attention to the subject of civil society. While markets and democracies arise in formerly Communist states, the... -
High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself by Carl Hart 9780670919741
RRP: €19.03€13.82High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addictionAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life, dealing drugs... -
Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss Stephen Harrod Buhner 9780970869678
RRP: €23.79€15.89*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press) News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying... -
Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €16.65€13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210477Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)... -
Higher Modern Studies: International Issues, Second Edition Frank Cooney 9781510457799
€30.48Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 Updated specifically to match the SQA Higher Modern Studies syllabus for examination from 2019 onwards.International Issues covers three of the world... -
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
RRP: €27.36€23.81In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal... -
Music in Everyday Life by Professor Tia DeNora 9780521627320
RRP: €23.79€18.89The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There... -
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage by Axel Bruns 9780820488660
RRP: €33.44€29.48We - the users turned creators and distributors of content - are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the... -
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War by Michael Roper 9780719083860
RRP: €29.75€26.41What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining... -
Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book by Jane Sunderland 9780415311045
RRP: €52.35€46.22Language and Gender:presents an up-to-date introduction to language and genderincludes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approachesgathers together influential readings from... -
Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds by Nick Totton
RRP: €24.98€23.43In today's Western, industrialised society, 'wild' has come to mean dangerous, savage, crazy, out of control. This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Totton argues that embracing unpredictability and... -
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche
RRP: €13.08€8.33"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... -
Mr Finchley Goes to Paris by Victor Canning
RRP: €10.70€7.29An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some... -
People & Permaculture Design: Caring & Designing for Ourselves, Each Other & The Planet by Looby Macnamara 9781856230872
RRP: €24.99€16.49This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people - to restore personal, social and planetary well-being. People & Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mainly about land-based systems to... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: €44.02€38.71This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
AQA A Level Sociology Student Book 1 (Collins AQA A Level Sociology) by Steve Chapman
RRP: €33.31€32.46Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This fourth edition of Collins' respected AQA A-level Sociology series is updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications... -
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives Hannah Critchlow 9781529398397
RRP: €26.18€17.80'A lively examination of communal endeavour... important and correct' - Steven Poole, The GuardianAt a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them.So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish and... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: €29.75€20.74The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Anthony King 9780198843771
€45.98How do small groups of combat soldiers perform on the battlefield and maintain their cohesion under fire? Why are they willing to fight for each other? These questions have long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on... -
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change David Harvey (Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, UK) 9780631162940
RRP: €34.45€29.83In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.About the AuthorDavid Harvey is Professor of Geography at the... -
Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History Rozina Visram 9780745313733
RRP: €32.12€21.41This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes,... -
The Psychology of Sex Meg John Barker 9781138676497
RRP: €15.46€14.21What can psychology teach us about sex?How do different bodies and brains respond sexually?How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality?The Psychology of Sex takes you on a tour through the different ways that psychologists have... -
Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745626352
RRP: €19.03€17.15'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... -
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington
RRP: €53.54€47.93This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will... -
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia by A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros
RRP: €28.55€24.80In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources... -
The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim 9781420948561
RRP: €16.65€15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420948561Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Extremism by J. M. Berger
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535878Author J. M. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Modernity and the Holocaust Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745609300
RRP: €21.41€19.09Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly... -
The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive: Adventures with the world's oldest off-road cycling club by Mark Hudson 9780995488656
RRP: €38.08€31.86Apologies 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 -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles 9780241470923
RRP: €29.75€25.93'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... -
Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together by Alison Goldsworthy
RRP: €13.08€9.25Why do people become divided?What steps can we all take to reduce hostility and bring about understanding?Poles Apart has the answers.In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so... -
The Student's Companion to Social Policy Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781119744870
RRP: €43.97€38.69The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible... -
Globalization and the Race for Resources Stephen G. Bunker (University of Wisconsin) 9780801882432
RRP: €29.75€28.49Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access... -
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein
RRP: €34.50€28.89This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in...