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Chivalry by Maurice Keen 9780300107678
RRP: £16.99£14.61Chivalry-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... -
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up by Annette Lareau 9780226806433
RRP: £19.00£18.50A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one's researcher-self into the lives of others can be... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby by Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for... -
The Curse of the Self: Self-awareness, egotism, and the quality of human life by Mark R. Leary 9780195325447
RRP: £34.99£29.05Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realise how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter interferes with their success, pollutes their... -
The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father by Massimo Recalcati 9781509531721
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation... -
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques by Davide Sivolella 9783030308803
RRP: £27.99£25.65This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social... -
Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Art Practice by Janwillem Schrofer
RRP: £19.90£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095404Author Janwillem SchroferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 20mm -
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
RRP: £29.99£27.64When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967... -
Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Richard J. Crisp
RRP: £8.99£6.45Social psychology is about the people who populate our everyday lives, and how they affect our 'personal universe', defining who we are, and shaping our behaviour, beliefs, attitudes, and ideology. In an age where we've mapped the human genome and... -
Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between by Bjorn Thomassen 9781138610941
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to... -
Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era by Marianna Ritchey 9780226640235
RRP: £26.00£24.85The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is now being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism... -
Lost Skills and Crafts Handbook by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
The Battered Woman by Lenore E Walker 9780060907426
RRP: £14.00£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060907426Author Lenore E WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Stata Survival Manual by David Pevalin 9780335223886
RRP: £36.99£35.99Where do I start? How do I know if I'm asking the right questions? How do I analyze the data once I have it? How do I report the results? When will I ever understand the process? If you are new to using the Stata software, and concerned about applying... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £16.99£12.28The 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... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: £14.95£12.53The 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... -
The Roman Family by Suzanne Dixon 9780801842009
RRP: £26.50£23.29Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents-today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from... -
Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood by Nell Frizzell
RRP: £16.99£12.28'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... -
Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality by Michele Lamont
RRP: £28.00£27.39How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by... -
Foula: Island West of the Sun by Sheila Gear 9780648920489
RRP: £12.95£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648920489Author Sheila GearFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Roofless by Stewart Harvey
RRP: £7.99£5.23Roofless is the new non-fiction book by Stewart Harvey, and is a series of real-life accounts and interviews given by people who have faced the brutal realities of homelessness at some point in their lives. Compiled by the charity First Stop Darlington,... -
Teacher Education in Times of Change by Gary Beauchamp 9781447318545
RRP: £27.99£21.57Why is teacher education policy significant - politically, sociologically and educationally? While the importance of practice in teacher education has long been recognised, the significance of policy has only been fully appreciated more recently. Teacher... -
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: £18.99£11.21This 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... -
The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745615936
RRP: £19.99£18.69This book can be read like a series of short stories - the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on unemployment benefits and a part-time job; the story of a trade... -
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations by Robert K. Merton
RRP: £50.00£48.25"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. ... -
Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable by Beverley Skeggs 9780761955122
RRP: £51.00£41.34Explanations 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... -
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals by Emile Durkheim
RRP: £16.99£15.62Emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and... -
The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster by Robert Colvile
RRP: £14.99£10.95Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new book,... -
Get Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Planting in Public Places by Ellen Miles 9780241593349
RRP: £18.99£13.15Your guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante - transforming your neighbourhood's neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life.Guerrilla gardening is the global movement of people planting in public places. From scattering wildflower seeds... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 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... -
Getting a Job: Study of Contacts and Careers by Mark Granovetter 9780226305813
RRP: £28.00£27.39This study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs not only proves "it's not what you know but who you know," but also demonstrates how social activity influences labour markets. Examining the link between job contacts and social structure,... -
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death by Jenny Kleeman
RRP: £11.99£8.60'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,... -
Sex at Dawn: the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan
RRP: £29.99£15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061707803Author Christopher RyanImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: £12.99£11.46A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences-traffic jams, noisy neighbors,... -
Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to New and Innovative Approaches by Tammy Nelson 9781683732570
RRP: £28.99£21.06Apologies 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 -
Real England: The Battle Against The Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
RRP: £10.99£7.32We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall... -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: £30.00£22.28An 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
£43.99Unmarried 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 by Crary
RRP: £15.99£14.81Leading 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 by Niall Williams 9781526632654
RRP: £18.99£14.61'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...