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ARCHITECT, verb.: The New Language of Building by Reinier de Graaf
RRP: $33.13$28.74Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. Architecture, it seems, has become too important to leave to architects. No longer does it suffice to judge... -
The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families by Amity Pierce Buxton 9780471021520
$29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471021520Author Amity Pierce BuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: $48.75$38.20In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
Sociology: The Basics by Ken Plummer
RRP: $38.98$34.50A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is packed with thought-provoking summaries, questions, quotations and... -
Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $21.43$14.43Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants,... -
The Sociology of Early Childhood: Critical Perspectives by Norman Gabriel 9781446272992
RRP: $72.13$59.07The Sociology of Early Childhood is a theoretically and historically grounded examination of young children's experiences in contemporary society. Arguing that a sociology of early childhood must bring together and integrate different disciplines, this... -
Hidden Valley: Finding freedom in Spain's deep country Paul Richardson 9781408714416
RRP: $39.00$26.03'A beguiling book about a lifestyle that many of us dream about' Daily MailPaul Richardson fled the city to live on the land in a rough-and-tumble village on the edge of Europe. Immersing himself in the culture of his remote Spanish community, he learned... -
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course by Andrew Clark
RRP: $42.90$33.85A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life courseWhat makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really... -
Postmodern Ethics Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780631186939
RRP: $64.25$56.82Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: $21.43$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: $44.83$34.98Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
Classical Sociological Theory George Ritzer 9781544354828
RRP: $235.95$221.34The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award-enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth... -
Extremism by J. M. Berger
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535878Author J. M. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for the 21st Century Ken Plummer 9781509527953
RRP: $35.08$31.28We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new... -
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
RRP: $19.48$15.93When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it demands a... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
$142.66Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind... -
Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person by Andy Field
RRP: $37.03$24.86Encounterism is a joyous immersion into the everyday pleasure and shared humanity we stand to lose in an increasingly digital world. Andy Field explores both different kinds of and different venues for human encounters, from the hairdressers to the... -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: $23.38$15.60From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary--whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad... -
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective Hilary Burrage 9781472419941
RRP: $72.13$64.21This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other Western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinises current pathways to eradicating this dangerous, sometimes... -
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: $33.13$27.50Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on code drives dangerously? What does massmarket graphics... -
Geisha by Liza Dalby
RRP: $25.33$19.11Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of grace, beauty and tradition that has long fascinated and... -
G.H. Mead: A Reader G. H. Mead 9780415821070
RRP: $85.78$75.74This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology.Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now,... -
How Change Happens by Duncan Green 9780198825166
RRP: $20.46$13.86Society is full of would-be 'change agents'-campaigners, government officials, enlightened business people, engaged intellectuals-set on improving public services, reforming laws and regulations, guaranteeing human rights, achieving a fairer deal for... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639178
$35.28For 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... -
Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Guide for Professional Editors by Renée Otmar 9781009154659
RRP: $72.13$62.69Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivities and inaccurate information are avoided. Knowing how to do so - and what to replace them with - can be tricky. Editing for... -
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Tayshas Reading 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307589675Author Nujood AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA... -
The Pink Guide to Adoption and Fostering for Lesbian and Gay Men by Nicola Hill
RRP: $29.15$19.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039922Author Nicola HillFormat PaperbackImprint CoramBAAFPublisher CoramBAAF -
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World Stephen Oppenheimer 9781841198941
RRP: $25.33$16.77In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that... -
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice by Vivien Prior
RRP: $64.33$62.17This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the influence of sensitive and insensitive caregiving and... -
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Paul Willis 9781857421705
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their... -
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy 9781911723059
RRP: $39.00$34.79Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of... -
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen 9780198284635
RRP: $93.58$92.72The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The... -
If You Can't Quit Crying, You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America by Betty Frizzell
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311014Author Betty FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
RRP: $25.33$17.73Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: $97.48$87.69In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative... -
50 Years of Community Development Vol II: A History of its Evolution and Application in North America Norman Walzer (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA; Purdue University, USA) 9780367563493
RRP: $77.98$69.15This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the... -
The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco
RRP: $39.00$30.99A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Inequality? by Mike Brewer 9781526460417
RRP: $25.33$21.55"A brilliantly clear and concise guide. Highly recommended." - Ben Chu Economic inequality in the UK is currently at historically high levels and the rise in income inequality over the last 30 years is one of the largest across developed nations. But... -
Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life by Andrew Sayer 9780521171649
RRP: $48.73$39.72Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others... -
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin 9780805039399
$19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805039399Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...