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Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
RRP: €11.89€8.46A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender,... -
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David, UK) 9781032404677
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic... -
Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues by Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield, CBE
RRP: €17.84€13.03'A deeply humane, learned and personal reflection on Jewish identity' - Rowan Williams 'This inspiring book has made me a better Jew, one who understands more, who knows more' - Daniel Finkelstein 'This remarkable book takes us on a journey:... -
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis by Peter Marcuse
RRP: €20.22€20.19Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama by Simon Banks 9781803131931
RRP: €35.70€25.41Since 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... -
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis Ed Atkins (University of Bristol) 9781529220964
RRP: €32.12€24.80To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if... -
The Starfish And The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Rod A. Beckstrom
RRP: €21.41€13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591841838Author Ori BrafmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221g -
Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole
RRP: €42.83€37.71Racism is an endemic feature of the Tory Party. Tracing the history of that racism, Racism and the Tory Party investigates the changing forms of racism in the party from the days of Empire, including the championing of imperialism at the turn of the 20th... -
Secularism: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Copson
RRP: €10.70€7.68Until 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 Economic Sociology of Development by A Schrank 9781509505265
RRP: €19.03€17.15Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so, it places various approaches to the definition, measurement, and... -
The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing by Alan Murie 9781447332077
RRP: €14.27€11.21The 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... -
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital by John Restakis 9780865716513
RRP: €21.41€14.64At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalisation is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the... -
Death in the Modern World by Tony Walter 9781526402943
RRP: €42.83€35.12Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries... -
On Marriage by Devorah Baum 9780241998021
RRP: €13.08€9.25BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie SmithA shining... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: €28.55€25.28The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial... -
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King
RRP: €13.08€7.70full of wisdom and entertaining anecdotes' The Economist'fascinating' Financial TimesSocial Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about 'networking.' Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal... -
Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction. by Herbert H. Blumberg 9780275927622
€77.98Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions. It is pershaps the most comprehensive theory available today... -
A Farmhouse in Tuscany by Victoria Springfield 9781398708945
€12.46'A horseride through Tuscany, charming characters, a rustic farmhouse and love in the air' FIVE STARS'With the backdrop of the Tuscan countryside the characters come alive with a lively and well crafted plot' FIVE STARS'A lovely story about the... -
The Parisian Field Guide to Men's Style Ines de la Fressange 9782080203427
RRP: €11.88€8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203427Author Ines de la FressangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 710g -
Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure by Lynne Segal 9781781687567
RRP: €29.74€21.13Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five... -
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
RRP: €35.70€27.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881137Author Henry GrabarFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life Nahid Pirnazar 9781032145761
RRP: €59.49€51.77Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they... -
Riyadh: Transforming a Desert City Yasser Elsheshtawy 9781032038742
RRP: €47.59€41.72Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive evidenced in the proliferation of proposals for high-end districts, giga-developments and elaborate... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: €21.41€19.09This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
€87.06Town 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... -
The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander Weygers
RRP: €24.99€17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898158960Author Alexander WeygersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm)... -
In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days by Kevin C. Kearns
RRP: €28.55€20.16For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders,... -
A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays 9781529064506
RRP: €13.08€8.47A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhen Carolyn Hays's child made... -
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
RRP: €49.98€39.79An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how... -
Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology by Mike Cooley 9780851248493
RRP: €14.27€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248493Author Mike CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice by Jeanne van Heeswijk
RRP: €21.41€14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542500Author Jeanne Van HeeswijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 by Martin Jay
RRP: €32.13€25.06Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is... -
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City by Felix Ringel 9781789208054
RRP: €33.26€26.87How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to... -
Poles Apart: Why divisions deepen and societies splinter by Ali Goldsworthy
RRP: €23.80€20.97We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter... -
A Sense of Inequality by Wendy Bottero 9781783487875
RRP: €46.41€42.92We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people's everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: €59.49€52.96In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American... -
Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Graham Harman 9781509500970
RRP: €17.84€16.16What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is composed, and as real as the Pizza Hut corporation with its headquarters in... -
Point of Arrival: A Study of London's East End by Chaim Bermant 9781032369235
RRP: €38.07€33.71Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their home in the East End of London. This was their point of arrival in a new country, and for many it was the only... -
Two Percent Townsend: a portrait of rural life in the Birdlip and Crickley Hill area of the Cotswolds in the 1940s, 50s and beyond by John Townsend 9781915067296
RRP: €10.70€7.68'As a child I think we lived on rabbit - boiled, roasted or stewed, it was a staple diet for many families ...' Birdlip, Cold Slad, Crickey Hill and the Air Balloon Inn: growing up in a hamlet of only six houses, John Townsend's humble childhood is... -
Basilicata: Authentic Italy by Karen Haid 9781734832204
€18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734832204Author Karen HaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Hiller PressPublisher Hiller PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm