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Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives by Hannah Critchlow
RRP: £22.00£14.96'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... -
Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition by George Herbert Mead
RRP: £26.00£25.25George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected... -
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Anthony King 9780198843771
£38.64How 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 by David Harvey
RRP: £28.95£25.07In 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... -
The Psychology of Sex by Meg-John Barker
RRP: £12.99£11.94What 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... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639178
RRP: £17.99£16.04For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the... -
Genre In The New Rhetoric by Aviva Freedman
RRP: £47.99£41.81Since The Mid-1980s The Notion Of "Genre" Has Been Dramatically Redefined. This redefinition has prompted theorists and scholars alike to analyze the shaping power of language and culture, and the interplay between the individual and the social.; Recent... -
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia by A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros
RRP: £25.99£20.84In 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... -
Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods by Martin Brett Davies
£30.26This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports... -
The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim 9781420948561
RRP: £13.99£13.27Apologies 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 *... -
Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together by Alison Goldsworthy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why 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... -
Understanding Privacy by Daniel J. Solove
RRP: £25.95£20.64Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many... -
The Black Bourgeoisie by Edward Franklin Frazier 9780684832418
RRP: £19.99£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832418Author Edward Franklin FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
Wildwoods: The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands by Richard Nairn
RRP: £14.99£10.95Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying - and learning from - nature. When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside a fast-flowing river, he set about understanding all its moods and seasons,... -
Globalization and the Race for Resources by Stephen G. Bunker 9780801882432
RRP: £25.00£23.94Globalization 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... -
At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future by Edward Dutton 9781845409852
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409852Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm -
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
RRP: £12.95£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842300114Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Identity: Coversations With Benedetto Vecchi by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: £14.99£13.58This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual... -
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton 9780872866690
RRP: £9.99£6.75"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth... -
It's Called Polyamory by Pincus Tamara Hiles Rebecca
RRP: £17.95£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944934422Author Tamara PincusFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Thorntree Press, LLCPublisher Thorntree Press, LLCWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)... -
Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video by Professor Eliot Borenstein
RRP: £13.99£12.61The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow... -
The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose by Clare Rewcastle Brown 9781527219366
RRP: £14.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527219366Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press -
The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
RRP: £26.99£21.24In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £17.99£16.44In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on... -
The Kiss: A Secret Life by Kathryn Harrison 9781857027082
RRP: £10.99£8.29From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father. 'My father takes my face in his hands. He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. I feel his fingers in the... -
Symbolic Construction of Community by Anthony P. Cohen
RRP: £36.99£32.53Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols... -
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Bhambra 9781509541300
RRP: £17.99£16.44Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings... -
The Amish by Donald B. Kraybill 9781421425665
RRP: £24.00£22.18Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLThe Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy... -
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis 9780486220123
RRP: £20.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486220123Author Jacob A. RiisFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb Pool
RRP: £9.99£6.52A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I stepped off... -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness by Donna J. Haraway 9780971757585
RRP: £10.95£8.14"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks 9780812993257
RRP: £30.00£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812993257Author David BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
Untrue: why nearly everything we believe about women and lust and infidelity is untrue by Wednesday Martin 9781911617310
RRP: £14.99£9.80A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex. Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right? Wrong. In Untrue, New... -
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... -
Technopoly by Postman N 9780679745402
RRP: £14.99£10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745402Author Neil PostmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Memoirs of a Wonky-Eyed Man: The Dad-Knows-Best Years by Jason Byrne 9780717194483
RRP: £21.99£15.61Jason Byrne is 17. With his leaving cert under his belt but no idea what to do next, who better to ask for advice than his dad, Paddy? There's a (very) short stint studying accountancy (he was asked to leave); a FAS course with juvenile offenders to... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Rachele Dini
RRP: £6.50£6.11Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized... -
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism by Kohei Saito
RRP: £85.00£76.60Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the... -
Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong by Ashley Merryman
RRP: £16.99£12.28What if we told you...that dishonesty in children is a positive traitthat arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role modeland that if you praise your children you risk making them fail...and it was all true?Using a cutting-edge combination of... -
AQA Sociology for A-level Book 2 by David Bown
£39.17Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject...