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Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass 9780805847628
£44.98Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research that can serve as a reference and starting point for additional research... -
Old Number Five by Castle Freeman
RRP: £8.99£6.13Lucian Wing is the sheriff of a backwoods county in Vermont, a hardscrabble place far from the picture-postcard gaze. He is also a man with a problem. Multiple problems, in fact, including a threatening superior; a wandering wife; a hard-drinking... -
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450167
RRP: £9.99£7.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450167Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country by Will Hutton
RRP: £10.99£2.91Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: £8.99£6.08What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national... -
The Fix by Damian Thompson 9780007436101
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Key Concepts in Community Studies by Tony Blackshaw 9781412928441
RRP: £36.99£30.29"This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or... -
Sociology: The Basics by Ken Plummer
RRP: £19.99£17.69A 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... -
Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War by Judy Foster
RRP: £29.95£19.19This is a revolutionary book that challenges our preconceptions about the past. We often think of history as a linear development in which we are steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future. While we have... -
Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842-1997) by Michael Ng
RRP: £29.99£25.94Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial... -
Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life by Jennifer Mason 9780745664644
RRP: £18.75£16.68How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a... -
The Body by Lisa Blackman 9781845205904
RRP: £23.99£20.99Questions around 'the body' are central to social theory. Our changing understanding of the body now challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. The Body: the key concepts highlights and analyses the... -
Hard Knocks & Soft Spots by Paddy Doherty
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.'Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy... -
Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice by Julian Agyeman 9780814707111
RRP: £23.99£20.84Argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, "environmental justice" refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this... -
Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie Barnes 9781250276629
RRP: £23.99£15.77For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college, and... -
The End of the Hour: A Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis 9781958506202
RRP: £12.99£8.63"A frank chronicle of healing."-Kirkus Reviews What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan expected... -
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China by Amy Hanser 9780804758376
RRP: £20.99£18.37This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs-service work, in this case salesclerk work-and the nature of the... -
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis 9780804776493
RRP: £21.99£19.19Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
Critical Path by R.Buckminster Fuller 9780312174910
£16.89Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication over 20 years ago. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current... -
Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues by Francois Depelteau 9781137379900
RRP: £99.99£99.71Edited by Francois Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.Book InformationISBN... -
Prophetic Grappling: Including as-Suyuti's al-Musārʿah ilā al-Muṣārʿah by Nisar Shaikh 9781915025166
£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025166Author Nisar ShaikhFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman
RRP: £39.00£34.23In this compelling book, the authors present an innovative therapeutic model for understanding and treating adults from emotionally abusive or neglectful families? families the authors call narcissistic. Narcissistic families have a parental system that... -
The Tyranny of Science by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780745651903
RRP: £12.99£11.94Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping... -
Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture by Jackie Goode
RRP: £37.99£33.38This collection explores how autoethnography is made. Contributors from sociology, education, counselling, the visual arts, textiles, drama, music, and museum curation uncover and reflect on the processes and practices they engage in as they craft their... -
Exploring the Sociology of Europe: An Analysis of the European Social Complex by Maurice Roche 9780761940722
RRP: £52.00£42.30The sociology of Europe is a growing and diverse field. This book addresses it in a direct, wide ranging and up-to-date way. Exploring the Sociology of Europe: * clearly maps this new and emerging field * challenges and renews the sociological... -
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen
RRP: £22.00£17.76How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the... -
The Bauman Reader by Peter Beilharz 9780631214922
RRP: £44.95£40.11The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a... -
Endgame Vol.1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen 9781583227305
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227305Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 561g -
Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks by Tom Chesshyre
RRP: £16.99£11.54If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks As horizons shrank, we took stock. At first, a sense of panic set in: nowhere to go, nothing to do... Then we all went to the park, and we realized something: we need greenery -... -
A Companion to Intellectual History by Richard Whatmore 9781119125570
RRP: £34.95£31.23A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it... -
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti 9780198811350
RRP: £14.99£11.22'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great... -
Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
RRP: £43.99£38.44Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of... -
The Secret War For The Falklands: The SAS, MI6, and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost by Nigel West
RRP: £10.99£9.37First published on the 15th anniversary of the Falklands War in 1982, THE SECRET WAR FOR THE FALKLANDS is nothing less than the secret history of the conflict, the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged by an enemy since 1945. In terms of hardware it... -
Why do women write more letters than they post? by Darian Leader
RRP: £10.99£7.32Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not posted, at whom is it really directed? As psychoanalyst Darian Leader shows, such... -
Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfray
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915057Author Adam ParfrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 487g -
Landscape by John Wylie
RRP: £43.99£38.44Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive... -
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £12.99£8.60This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with...