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Country House Life: A century in photographs by Elizabeth Drury
RRP: £14.99£10.10A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the National Trust's historic properties depicting life in Britain's country homes and estates. An intriguing look at the life that was led in the country homes and estates now... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: £9.99£6.99Can 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... -
Transformative Research and Higher Education by Azril Bacal Roij 9781801176958
RRP: £68.99£56.95Providing a critical look at how it is possible for institutions of higher education to go beyond the institutional constraints that plague the neo-liberal university, the authors of this volume explore the powerful role of transformative... -
The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives by Nicola Ingram 9781529208856
RRP: £14.99£12.13What are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it. ... -
Social Theory: Ideas in Profile: Ideas in Profile by William Outhwaite 9781781254813
RRP: £8.99£8.05Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation,... -
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space by Michael Sorkin 9780374523145
RRP: £20.00£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523145Author Michael SorkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams) 363g -
One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin 9780307279620
RRP: £14.99£11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279620Author Abigail PogrebinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Middletown: A Study in American Culture. by Robert Staughton Lynd 9780156595506
RRP: £40.00£29.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156595506Author Robert Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality by Ulrike Schuerkens 9780415810647
RRP: £15.99£14.41Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten... -
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
RRP: £35.00£27.74For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of... -
Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire by Renisa Mawani
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into... -
Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders in the Family by Jenny Langley 9781412920223
RRP: £37.99£31.18Eating disorders are usually associated with females but there are an increasing number of males affected by anorexia and bulimia. Often there is a link between male eating disorders and athletic prowess, and the quest for physical perfection can result... -
Essential Land Law for SQE1 by Mohammad Sabuj 9781032070032
RRP: £35.99£31.69Essential Land Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of Land law in a clear, easy-to-follow style. Principles are introduced and illustrated with reference to practical examples. The book demonstrates the skills of understanding and analysing the law,... -
The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge by John Bateson 9780520272408
RRP: £25.00£19.99The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It's... -
Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences by Berth Danermark
RRP: £39.99£35.06Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical... -
Anyone but England: Cricket, Race and Class by Mike Marqusee 9781448216703
RRP: £18.99£15.23WINNER OF THE LORD ABERDARE LITERARY PRIZE, 1994 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, 1994 Now with a new introduction by Rahul Bhattacharya, Anyone But England is a detailed exploration into the origins of cricket; the... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case
RRP: £22.00£17.15A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom... -
The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice by Amade M'Charek 9780521539876
RRP: £41.99£36.19The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became... -
Men, Masculinities and Honour-Based Abuse by Mohammad Idriss
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA). There is a common misconception that HBA - whether physical violence, emotional abuse or so-called 'honour' killings - occurs only against... -
Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £15.99£15.58One of the world's leading social thinkers, Bourdieu's work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis of science and its legitimacy. Bourdieu argues that... -
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society by John S. Dryzek
£35.00Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and... -
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism by Patrick Baert 9780745622477
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places... -
Strategic Interaction by Erving Goffman
RRP: £19.99£17.54The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term "strategic interaction" to describe gamelike events in... -
Don't Worry He Doesn't Bite by Liam Mulvin
RRP: £12.00£8.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723425Author Liam MulvinFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 384g -
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples by Leslie S. Greenberg 9781606239278
£31.10This influential volume provides a comprehensive introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT): its theoretical foundations, techniques, and clinical practice. EFT is a structured approach that integrates intrapsychic and interpersonal perspectives... -
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
RRP: £16.99£13.16From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya - one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While... -
Organising Modernity: Social Ordering and Social Theory by John Law 9780631185130
RRP: £38.95£34.20In this important theoretical and empirical statement John Law argues against the purity of post-enlightenment political and social theory, and offers an alternative post-modern sociology. Arguing in favor of a sociology of verbs, he suggests that power,... -
The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from... -
The Invention of the 'Underclass' by Loic Wacquant 9781509552184
RRP: £15.99£14.41At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban "underclass." Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic... -
The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough 9781844673643
£20.39The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing... -
Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction by Priscilla Alderson
RRP: £26.99£20.84Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the... -
Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory by Alex Law
RRP: £36.99£30.29"I think this will prove to be a very useful text for undergraduate students. Alex Law has produced a comprehensive list of key classical social theory concepts and provides an accessible account of the meaning of central terms, their place in the... -
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists by Catherine Marsh 9780745622835
RRP: £17.99£16.44The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and graphical approaches, it moves on in later chapters to simple strategies for examining the... -
Nature and Madness by Paul Shepard 9780820319803
£24.66Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots... -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691216430
RRP: £15.99£12.91Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has... -
Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah 9780520254190
RRP: £25.00£19.59First published in 1985, "Habits of the Heart" continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions. In a new preface the authors... -
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs 9781400076703
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781400076703Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House... -
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems by Luis M a Bettencourt
RRP: £43.00£30.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046008Author Luis M. A. BettencourtFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for Our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future by Anthony Costello 9781912664009
RRP: £25.00£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912664009Author Anthony CostelloFormat HardbackPage Count 525Imprint ThornwickPublisher Thornwick -
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory by Julian Go
£26.85Social scientists have long been resistant to the set of ideas known as "postcolonial thought." Meanwhile, postcolonial scholars have considered social science to be an impoverished discipline that is part of the intellectual problem for postcolonial...