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London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: £14.99£10.95London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's... -
Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé 9780367600778
RRP: £39.99£34.22Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and... -
The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse by Amy Marlow-Macoy, Lpc 9781646112692
RRP: £16.99£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646112692Author Amy Marlow-MacoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 251mm *... -
Sad Dad: An Exploration of Postnatal Depression in Fathers by Olivia Spencer 9781853432309
£14.68What happens to men when they become fathers? Why do some men get depressed, and how can we identify those who are? What does this mean for their children and their relationships? What can we do about it? Taking in many different perspectives, this... -
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation - Vols.1&2 by Dr Karma Ura 9780198887362
RRP: £120.00£109.33The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. The books provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. They show the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the... -
Black River by Nilanjana Roy
RRP: £16.99£11.58'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction' KIRAN DESAI 'An elegy for India. It is gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true' SONIA FALEIRO A literary thriller of... -
The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class by Kris Marsh
RRP: £22.99£18.72Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written... -
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
RRP: £24.99£20.01In 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... -
Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists -- professionals who study sexual behaviour -- pretty difficult. ... -
The Little Book of Narcissism: The Essential Guide to Stop Wasting Time and Energy on the Narcissist in Your Life by Sharon Kelly 9781735012315
RRP: £9.99£8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735012315Author Sharon KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Dr. Sharon KellyPublisher Dr. Sharon KellyWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning by Sharon Hanson
RRP: £43.99£38.44Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. The 5th edition of Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning draws on a range of areas of law to... -
Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
£25.21Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 Updated specifically to match the SQA Higher syllabus for examination from 2019 onwards, this textbook covers the two issues that students have the... -
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils our Future by Noreena Hertz
RRP: £20.00£13.75'If I could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.' Guardian 'Destined to be a classic' Nouriel Roubini'Fascinating' Sathnam Sanghera, The Times'A hopeful book that couldn't be more important or timely' Philippa Perry... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political... -
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
£25.48The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' ... -
The Personals by Brian O'Connell
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope. Some people do Sudoku,... -
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words by Michael Gardiner
RRP: £62.00£54.01Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays'... -
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families by Caroline Archer
RRP: £24.99£23.78Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. New Families, Old Scripts is an accessible introduction to understanding these... -
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva
£31.74In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives... -
Eight Dates by John Gottman 9781523504466
RRP: £18.99£15.83Happily 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,... -
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist by John Marzillier
RRP: £22.50£21.50An honest and accessible insight into the often closed world of psychotherapy. This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a... -
Higher Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
£25.21Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019A course textbook covering the most recent political developments and fully updated to take on board the latest SQA course assessment changes. Written... -
Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft by David Stark 9780231214018
RRP: £30.00£23.29Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the... -
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz 9781476702728
£11.81As 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 by Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: £12.99£11.78This 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... -
Against Creativity by Oli Mould
RRP: £9.99£9.88From 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,... -
AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods (Collins Student Support Materials) by Steve Chapman
RRP: £11.99£9.75Exam 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... -
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam 9780195150896
RRP: £81.00£73.68The 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... -
Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss by Stephen Harrod Buhner
RRP: £19.99£13.35*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... -
Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745609300
RRP: £17.99£16.04Sociology 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... -
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and Our Money by Laura Clancy 9781526158758
RRP: £15.99£11.80In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.Running the Family Firm explores the... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: £12.99£11.46The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has... -
Higher Modern Studies: International Issues: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
£25.61Exam 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... -
Music in Everyday Life by Professor Tia DeNora 9780521627320
RRP: £19.99£16.17The 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... -
Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being and Liberation by Crystal M. Fleming
RRP: £36.99£32.53Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being, and Liberation brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on mind-body interventions, group-based identities, and social justice. Marshalling both empirical data and theoretical... -
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War by Michael Roper 9780719083860
RRP: £25.00£22.19What 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... -
The Secret Lives of Adults: Your Seven Key Relationships - and How to Make Them Work by Allison Keating
RRP: £16.99£12.28People have been sharing their life stories with psychologist Allison Keating for the past eighteen years, and the words she hears most often are 'I feel overwhelmed,' followed by 'I thought I'd have it figured out by now.' Adulthood is tough. As we... -
Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds by Nick Totton
RRP: £20.99£19.69In 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... -
People & Permaculture Design: Caring & Designing for Ourselves, Each Other & The Planet by Looby Macnamara 9781856230872
RRP: £21.00£13.86This 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...