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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011 by Michael Mann
RRP: $68.23$54.23Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of... -
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights by Leena El-Ali
RRP: $44.83$40.29In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: $42.88$35.82Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: $58.48$51.68Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized -... -
Practical Audio Electronics by Kevin Robinson 9780367359850
RRP: $66.28$59.28Practical Audio Electronics is a comprehensive introduction to basic audio electronics and the fundamentals of sound circuit building, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake projects from scratch.Imparting a thorough... -
Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans against machines' GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human... -
Futsal: The Story of An Indoor Football Revolution by Jamie Fahey 9781911545590
RRP: $19.48$13.86Futsal is one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet: over 60 million people play this lightning-fast and tactically intricate variation of indoor football. Despite its growing status, however, futsal's history remains largely unknown and untold... -
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson
RRP: $39.00$32.82How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the... -
Hidden Valley: Finding freedom in Spain's deep country by Paul Richardson 9780349144795
RRP: $21.43$14.43The story of the real 'good life' of an off-grid existence in rural SpainPaul 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... -
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: Pearson New International Edition W. Lawrence Neuman 9781292020235
RRP: $124.78$112.89Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods 7e is a highly regarded text that presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research with an emphasis on the benefits of... -
A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing by So Mayer
RRP: $11.70$8.58In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and... -
An Invitation to Social Theory David Inglis (University of Helsinki) 9781509506408
RRP: $35.08$31.28Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and... -
Leadville by Edward Platt 9780330392631
$24.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State by Mogens Herman Hansen 9780199208500
RRP: $83.83$59.87From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with... -
Happiness by Tim Lomas
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies 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 -
From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England by Christel Lane 9780198826187
RRP: $84.81$84.26The pub is a prominent social institution integral to British identity. From Taverns of Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England charts the historical development of the English public house from the Restoration period to the twenty-first... -
Outsiders by Howard S. Becker 9781982106225
RRP: $23.38$22.11One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance.Howard S. Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early 1960s-and the ideas it proposed and problems it raised... -
The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception by Debora L. Spar
RRP: $42.90$35.63Despite legislation that claims to prohibit it, there is a thriving market for babies spreading across the globe. Fueled by rapid advances in reproductive medicine and the desperate desires of millions of would-be parents, the acquisition of... -
Songlines: The Power and Promise by Lynne Kelly 9781760763923
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760763923Author Lynne KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty... -
Negotiations, 1972-1990 by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $42.90$33.11Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure in... -
A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by David Harvey
RRP: $39.00$32.04When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental... -
The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives by Peter Lovenheim
RRP: $33.13$29.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132424Author Peter LovenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
The Roman Family Suzanne Dixon 9780801842009
RRP: $51.68$45.42Unfaithful 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... -
Power: A Reader by Mark Haugaard 9780719057298
RRP: $38.98$35.53An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power... -
The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780195187175
RRP: $136.50$104.85The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities-whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no... -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $38.98$31.75"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who... -
Identity: Coversations With Benedetto Vecchi Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745633091
RRP: $29.23$26.48This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual... -
Supercharge Productivity Habits: 50+ Simple Hacks to Organize Your Tasks, Overcome Procrastination, Increase Efficiency and Work Smarter to Become a Top Performer by John R Torrance 9781647800543
RRP: $33.13$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647800543Author John R TorranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint High Performance MediaPublisher High Performance MediaWeight(grams)... -
Farm and Rural Building Conversions: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy by Carole Ryan 9781847973832
RRP: $48.75$48.32Farm and Rural Building Conversions provides a detailed record of types of rural buildings and advice for conversion , including retention of period features where appropriate. Sympathetic conversion that ensures this record of rural life is not lost... -
The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing by Alan Murie 9781447332077
RRP: $23.38$18.37The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and... -
Foxfire 1 by Eliot Wigginton
RRP: $37.03$25.64Apologies 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... -
Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity (Deluxe Edition): 2021 by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: $23.40$18.95This anthology (the first in a series) is an attempt to help us perceive our context with an exploration of the premise, coherence and scope of the 'metamodern' sensibility: a structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and imaginative... -
Nairn In Darkness And Light by David Thomson
RRP: $31.18$22.64Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of... -
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: $27.28$24.32Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data... -
On The Track Of Unknown Animals by Heuvelmans
RRP: $91.63$81.84First 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... -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
$47.01Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $31.18$25.17An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1963 and Pulitzer Prize 1964 and Sidney Hillman Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9780394703176Author Richard... -
The Courage to Raise Good Men: You Don't Have to Sever the Bond with Your Son to Help Him Become a Man by Olga Silverstein 9780140175677
$31.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140175677Author Olga SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World by Raghuram Rajan
RRP: $25.33$16.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against...