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Person-Centred Therapy in Focus by Paul Wilkins
RRP: $81.88$67.00Person-Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled against one of the most widespread forms of therapeutic practice. Characterized by its critics as theoretically `light', culturally biased and limited in... -
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison 9780593315323
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315323Author Corban AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Crowds and Power by Professor Elias Canetti 9780374518202
RRP: $54.60$32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374518202Author Professor Elias CanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa 9780231148351
RRP: $54.60$49.45Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation,... -
On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better by Kirsty Sedgman
RRP: $33.13$21.98We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
RRP: $15.58$11.29'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so... -
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745609874
RRP: $35.08$31.28The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 1: Education with Methods by Hollie Wyllie
$16.28Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
$43.88In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These developments were largely organised by htosw who... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: $48.75$34.36'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... -
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution by Emmett MacFarlane
RRP: $68.25$60.72Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $21.43$15.15Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined... -
Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington 9780674244771
RRP: $36.95$29.97"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."-Wall Street Journal"Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who... -
Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities by SH Ali
RRP: $35.08$31.28Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a... -
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
RRP: $17.53$13.30Drawing 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... -
Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq by Scott A. Snook
RRP: $68.25$54.09On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian... -
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg 9780262521055
$140.50In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Loewith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from... -
Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green by Claudia Pasquero 9780367768010
RRP: $64.33$56.86Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its... -
Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption by Sean Nixon 9780312163334
RRP: $87.73$87.69Hard Looks is a fascinating examination of the new masculine imagery that has developed in relation to popular consumption over the last decade. The author skillfully investigates the development of this "new man" imagery and its relationship... -
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method by Mike Savage 9780199587667
RRP: $103.35$82.35Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how... -
Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research by Derek Layder 9780761954309
RRP: $109.20$88.28In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two. He develops clear usable strategies to encourage theory development in the practical... -
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants Tony Parker 9781906011192
RRP: $33.13$22.50Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of... -
A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844081400
RRP: $21.43$14.43A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULIn January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its... -
Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials by Michael Michaud 9780387285986
RRP: $58.48$49.12This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: $37.03$29.48In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
Living as a Bird Vinciane Despret 9781509547272
RRP: $29.23$19.89In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They... -
Made for This: The Catholic Mom's Guide to Birth by Mary Haseltine
RRP: $40.85$25.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681921716Author Mary HaseltineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work Ian Allinson 9780745347813
RRP: $29.23$19.11The Covid, climate and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace... -
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
RRP: $58.48$53.90When 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... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 2: Families and Households Jonathan Blundell 9781471845352
$16.28Exam Board: AQALevel: A-LevelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015 AQA... -
The Social Superpower: The Big Truth about Little Lies by Kathleen Wyatt 9781785907050
RRP: $37.03$26.93"There are a few secrets," he tells me. "A few discoveries that I've never published. Some of the most powerful ones. I wouldn't betray them under torture." In a time of deep fakes, alternative truths and leaked secrets, it would be easy to think that... -
Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond: From Research Design to Analysis and Publication by Anne Galletta 9780814732946
RRP: $46.78$40.64Mastering 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... -
The Rory's Stories Lockdown Lookback Rory O'Connor 9780717195640
RRP: $27.28$19.01From dodgy home haircuts and TikTok dance crazes to banana-bread baking and checkpoint cheek, even in lockdown social media star and comedian Rory O'Connor found plenty of opportunities to keep everyone laughing. Filled with Rory's trademark banter... -
Internet Psychology: The Basics Yair Amichai-Hamburger 9781138656062
RRP: $38.98$34.50We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activities, and interact with friends. The Internet's influence on contemporary society extends across every aspect... -
The Plural Actor Bernard Lahire (l'ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud) 9780745646855
RRP: $37.03$32.90The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies... -
This Is Not Who I Am: Our Authenticity Obsession by Emily Bootle 9781838388737
RRP: $23.38$16.17In contemporary culture, there is no stronger imperative than to be authentic. But what does authenticity actually mean? Everywhere we turn, we are urged to "live our truth": an element of Western culture that is almost never questioned. Authenticity in... -
Questions for Couples Journal: 400 Questions to Enjoy, Reflect, and Connect with Your Partner by Maggie Reyes
RRP: $29.23$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646119523Author Maggie ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm... -
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 Peter Hall (Late of University College London, UK) 9781118456477
RRP: $66.20$59.24Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth... -
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $21.43$15.15'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' NatureOf all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of... -
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island by John McPhee 9781907970917
RRP: $19.48$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970917Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 190g