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Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life by Farah Al-Nakib 9780804798525
RRP: £23.99£19.19As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed... -
Economy, Society, and Public Policy by CORE Team
RRP: £47.99£45.97In order to be well-governed, a democracy needs voters who are fluent in the language of economics and who can do some quantitative analysis of social and economic policy. We also need a well-trained cadre of researchers and journalists who have more... -
Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum by Fernando Dominguez Rubio
RRP: £31.00£30.59How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: £14.99£12.55This 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... -
Secularism: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Copson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world... -
The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Addiction Treatment by Sheila P. Vakharia 9781032294735
RRP: £19.99£17.58This 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... -
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 9780486287386
RRP: £4.99£3.46Apologies 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)... -
Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara 9781398514874
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Impressive' - Bernardine Evaristo 'Read this and learn - this is what a force for good looks like' - Jess Phillips MP'One of the best books I read this year [...] It's truly essential reading for those who want to push forward for a more equal world' -... -
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington
RRP: £44.99£40.28This 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... -
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience by Toby Hemenway
RRP: £20.00£13.35Permaculture 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: £35.00£28.14The 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... -
Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China by Isabel Brown Crook 9781442252776
RRP: £45.00£41.44This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate... -
Liberalism, Community and Culture by Will Kymlicka 9780198278719
RRP: £71.00£57.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Farming Stories from the Scottish Borders: Hard Lives for Poor Reward by Colin Whittemore
RRP: £10.99£7.09This book is about the generations of people who have made the farms we know today. Engaging, enjoyable and informative, the author uses various family experiences to take the reader through three centuries of change in the countryside, including two... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: £30.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together by Belinda Luscombe
RRP: £11.99£8.43The fault lines that can fracture a marriage are all contained in these six words: FAMILIARITY, FIGHTING, FAMILY, FINANCES, FOOLING AROUND AND FINDING HELP. It's time to get to know your F words. Using the latest scientific research, personal... -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn... -
Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: Russian Speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan by Alina Jašina-Schäfer 9781793631404
RRP: £30.00£28.02Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses... -
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Latino Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525580454Author Wade HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge by Stephanie Bunn
£28.03This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and... -
If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind by Francisco Garcia
RRP: £9.99£6.64'One of the non-fiction books of the year.' Andrew O' Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world of missing people When Francisco Garcia was just seven years old, his father,... -
The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jonbenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go away by John Douglas 9780671017064
£8.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671017064Author John DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254g -
Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond: From Research Design to Analysis and Publication by Anne Galletta 9780814732946
RRP: £25.99£22.49Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project-an exploration of a school... -
Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis by Jane Fishburne Collier 9780804718196
RRP: £36.00£28.21A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718196Author Jane Fishburne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 463g -
The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law: The Present, Past and Future of the Origin Link by Andrea Zappalaglio 9780367701222
RRP: £37.99£33.38Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market, and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: £22.50£17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780394744780Author Carl E. SchorskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA... -
Thinking About Fostering? by Henrietta Bond 9781910039540
RRP: £9.95£6.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039540Author Henrietta BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAF -
Team Flow: The psychology of optimal collaboration by Jef J.J. van den Hout 9783030278700
RRP: £54.99£54.73This book presents a series of studies that conceptualize, test, and monitor team flow experiences in professional organizations to perform autonomously and successfully. It analyses the processes by which team flow emerges by exemplifying case studies,... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama by Simon Banks
RRP: £40.00£28.79Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260... -
Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire by Dr. Marlene Laruelle
RRP: £26.50£23.29Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a... -
The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells
RRP: £28.95£25.47This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the... -
Foxfire 1 by Eliot Wigginton
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073530Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 233mm... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: £27.95£22.55"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
Make it So: Leadership for the Next Generation by Wess Roberts 9780671520984
£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671520984Author Wess RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: £26.99£20.84This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan
RRP: £14.99£13.64Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the... -
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
RRP: £24.99£21.58In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an... -
Room for the River: The Foyle River Catchment Landscape: Connecting People, Place and Nature by Liam Campbell 9781916501652
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916501652Author Liam CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Merdog BooksPublisher Merdog Books -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage
RRP: £30.95£26.77A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest...