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Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €13.08€9.25Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: €17.79€14.91The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies... -
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny
RRP: €23.79€20.87On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes... -
Basic Math for Social Scientists: Problems and Solutions by Timothy M. Hagle 9780803972858
RRP: €40.45€35.81This book of worked-out examples not only accompanies Timothy M Hagle's earlier book Basic Math for Social Scientists: Concepts but also provides an informal refresher course in algebra sets, limits and continuity, differential calculus, multivariate... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: €15.46€12.09The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything... -
Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood Nell Frizzell 9781787635944
RRP: €20.22€14.61'My favourite person on the politics of parenthood' Pandora Sykes'Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent and human' Daisy Buchanan'A blazing, brilliant read ... compassionate, convincing, funny!' Amy Liptrot'Honest, unflinching and necessary' Sara... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: €15.46€13.64The 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... -
The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Addiction Treatment by Sheila P. Vakharia 9781032294735
RRP: €23.79€19.34This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind.Harm reduction is an approach to helping people who engage in... -
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It by Rory Hearne 9780008529611
RRP: €11.89€7.90The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their... -
Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences by Justin Grimmer 9780691207551
RRP: €45.22€36.19A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This... -
Unlocking EU Law by Tony Storey 9781032111322
RRP: €45.21€42.03European Union Law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an... -
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION by Prof. Guy Standing
RRP: €20.22€15.66This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber... -
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff 9781982189648
RRP: €22.60€13.52This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small... -
Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods by Martin Brett Davies
€36.01This 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... -
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't by Frank Dobbin
RRP: €29.69€24.15"Too many companies don't know how to walk the walk of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Getting to Diversity shows them how."-Lori George Billingsley, former Global Chief DEI Officer, Coca-Cola CompanyIn an authoritative, data-driven account, two of the... -
Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable by Beverley Skeggs 9780761955122
RRP: €60.69€49.19Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: €20.22€14.61The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty by Mimi Matthews
RRP: €17.84€13.03What did a Victorian lady wear for a walk in the park? How did she style her hair for an evening at the theatre? And what products might she have used to soothe a sunburn or treat an unsightly blemish? Mimi Matthews answers these questions and more as... -
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
RRP: €10.70€8.12Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and network science, Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: €21.41€19.56In 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... -
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death by Jenny Kleeman
RRP: €14.27€10.23'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'A moreish page-turner of a book' - HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise,... -
On The Track Of Unknown Animals by Heuvelmans
RRP: €55.92€49.94First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des betes ignorees (1955), appeared in French. With this book, the great adventure of 'Cryptozoology', the science of hidden animals, began.About... -
The Ordinal Society by Marion Fourcade 9780674971141
RRP: €45.16€42.39A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and... -
Emotional and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage: How to Connect or Reconnect With Your Spouse, Grow Together, and Strengthen Your Marriage by Marcus Kusi 9780998729107
€9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998729107Author Marcus KusiFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Our Peaceful FamilyPublisher Our Peaceful FamilyWeight(grams) 227g -
Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to New and Innovative Approaches by Tammy Nelson 9781683732570
RRP: €34.50€24.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683732570Author Tammy NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Pesi, IncPublisher Pesi, IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 13mm -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: €35.70€26.51An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,... -
Cohabitation, Marriage and the Law: Social Change and Legal Reform in the 21st Century by Anne Barlow 9781841134338
€52.35Unmarried heterosexual cohabitation is rapidly increasing in Britain and over a quarter of children are now born to unmarried cohabiting parents. This is not just an important change in the way we live in modern Britain; it is also a political and... -
Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory Alice Crary (The New School, New York, NY) 9781509549689
RRP: €19.03€17.62Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction,... -
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden Niall Williams 9781526632654
RRP: €22.60€17.39'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: €47.59€41.72In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The... -
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller
RRP: €20.22€16.78Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanization. At the same time it is difficult to ignore the deaths of thousands of migrants at sea... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: €17.84€14.93This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it... -
Happiness by Tim Lomas
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544207Author Tim LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 9780486287386
RRP: €5.94€4.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486287386Author Booker T. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Psychology and Social Work: Applied Perspectives Gabriela Misca 9780745696317
RRP: €20.22€18.11Successful 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... -
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities by Brian Ladd
RRP: €30.94€30.05Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and... -
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience Toby Hemenway 9781603585262
RRP: €23.80€15.89Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City... -
Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations by Didier Fassin
RRP: €41.65€33.49The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been... -
Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms by Victoria D. Alexander
RRP: €42.78€38.16Explains the key concepts, theories, and studies in the sociology of the arts-the fully updated new edition of the classic textbook Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive yet accessible review of sociological approaches to studying the fine, popular,... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions Eve Livingston 9780745341620
RRP: €11.89€8.09With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway? The government constantly attacks unions,...