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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala
RRP: $29.23$21.35For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas - that consenting adults have the freedom to do... -
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
RRP: $39.00$20.03Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently... -
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
RRP: $81.90$65.21An 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... -
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City by Felix Ringel 9781789208054
RRP: $54.50$44.03How 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: $39.00$34.36We 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: $76.05$70.34We 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: $97.48$86.78In 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: $29.23$26.48What 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: $62.38$55.24Point 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: $17.53$12.58'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
$30.21Apologies 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 -
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Hein de Haas
RRP: $72.13$64.90Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they... -
There Is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution Marcello Tari 9781942173168
RRP: $25.33$16.83"A powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit of [happiness and revolution], and fuels it, and constitutes and ruptures its vagrant, open end."-Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The... -
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging by Lucy van de Wiel
RRP: $54.58$47.07Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes... -
The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
RRP: $21.43$15.76We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming... -
Abandoned Italy by Robin Brianert 9782361952716
RRP: $68.23$47.33An exceptional photographic report of Abandoned Italy. Robin Brinaert has been travelling around Italy for over eight years in search of these abandoned, forbidden places. He highlights the sometimes dramatic fate of our heritage - a serious... -
Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture: The revised and updated third edition of the author's Earth User's Guide to Permaculture: 2022 by Rosemary Morrow 9780648845904
RRP: $76.03$55.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648845904Author Rosemary MorrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Melliodora PublishingPublisher Melliodora PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Erica Chenoweth
RRP: $25.33$17.73A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety... -
Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by Prof. James Davison Hunter 9780465015344
$50.58A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.About the AuthorJames Davidson Hunter is... -
Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 9789401790871
RRP: $116.98$107.50The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and... -
Identity: Sociological Perspectives Steph Lawler 9780745654164
RRP: $31.18$28.10Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others... -
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
RRP: $33.13$29.68Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial. Through an... -
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller
RRP: $19.48$15.93In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would... -
London's South Bank: The History by Mireille Galinou
RRP: $68.25$51.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361029Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing -
A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
RRP: $29.23$19.11Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of... -
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities by Jennifer Clark
RRP: $48.75$38.20The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: $74.08$65.09Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
Meaning and Representation in History by Jorn Rusen 9781845452629
RRP: $54.50$44.03History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events... -
Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South AbdouMaliq Simone 9781509523368
RRP: $29.23$26.48The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on... -
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
RRP: $21.43$16.03Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world s great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different... -
Culture of Fear by Frank Furedi 9780826493958
RRP: $50.68$49.73Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety... -
Mate by Tucker Max 9780316349437
RRP: $42.88$30.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316349437Author Tucker MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: $124.78$98.40Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting... -
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution Lucy Series 9781529211993
RRP: $48.73$37.81ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a... -
Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies by Marta Felber 9780877939320
$31.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877939320Author Marta FelberFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ave Maria PressPublisher Ave Maria PressWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Human Network: How We're Connected and Why It Matters by Matthew O. Jackson 9781786490223
RRP: $19.48$13.07It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.Based on his ground-breaking research, The... -
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger
RRP: $35.08$20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476759739Author Jonah BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
RRP: $29.23$26.48"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever... -
Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between Bjorn Thomassen 9781138610941
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to... -
Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life by Casey Gwinn 9781683509653
RRP: $25.33$16.83Learn to overcome trauma, adversity, and struggle by unleashing the science of hope in your daily life with this inspiring and informative guide.Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Science tells us that it is the most predictive indicator of...