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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011 by Michael Mann
RRP: €41.64€33.09Distinguishing 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... -
Understanding Privacy by Daniel J. Solove
RRP: €30.88€24.56Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many... -
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights by Leena El-Ali
RRP: €27.36€24.59In 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... -
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: Pearson New International Edition W. Lawrence Neuman 9781292020235
RRP: €76.15€68.89Social 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... -
Economics for Humans, Second Edition by Julie A Nelson
RRP: €22.61€22.02At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned... -
Critical Perspectives in Public Health by Judith Green 9780415409520
RRP: €51.16€44.73This book explores the concept of 'critical' public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: €29.75€20.97'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... -
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and Our Money by Laura Clancy 9781526158758
RRP: €19.03€14.04In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.Running the Family Firm explores the... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks 9780812993257
RRP: €35.70€20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812993257Author David BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
Futsal: The Story of An Indoor Football Revolution by Jamie Fahey 9781911545590
RRP: €11.89€8.46Futsal 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: €23.80€20.03How 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... -
A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing by So Mayer
RRP: €7.14€5.24In 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: €21.41€19.09Social 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
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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
RRP: €13.08€10.03The #1 New York Times Bestseller**A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the Emmy-award winning star of Master of None and one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices**In the... -
Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State by Mogens Herman Hansen 9780199208500
RRP: €51.16€36.53From 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... -
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
RRP: €29.74€26.43This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis... -
From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England by Christel Lane 9780198826187
RRP: €51.75€51.42The 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: €14.27€13.49One 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: €26.18€21.74Despite 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: €17.84€11.66Apologies 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: €26.18€20.21Negotiations 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... -
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wert
RRP: €10.70€7.68The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater,... -
A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by David Harvey
RRP: €23.80€19.55When 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 Secret Lives of Adults: Your Seven Key Relationships - and How to Make Them Work by Allison Keating
RRP: €20.22€14.61People have been sharing their life stories with psychologist Allison Keating for the past eighteen years, and the words she hears most often are 'I feel overwhelmed,' followed by 'I thought I'd have it figured out by now.' Adulthood is tough. As we... -
The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780195187175
RRP: €83.30€63.99The 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... -
The Abuse of Property by Daniel Loick 9780262545501
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545501Author Daniel LoickFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: €23.79€19.37"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... -
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: €20.22€13.29Apologies 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: €29.75€29.49Farm 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... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity (Deluxe Edition): 2021 by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: €14.28€11.57This 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... -
The Rise of the Network Society Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, USA) 9781405196864
RRP: €34.45€30.31This 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... -
How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation by Tom Clark 9780198811060
RRP: €38.07€36.09How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real social science undergraduates from a range of... -
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
€19.46Apologies 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: €15.46€10.09SHORTLISTED 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... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: €11.89€8.32Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his... -
The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang
RRP: €26.18€21.13A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was... -
Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch 9781509543847
RRP: €22.60€20.08The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply... -
The Mission of Folk Souls by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: €30.93€25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482680Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc