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Nature and Madness by Paul Shepard 9780820319803
$48.03Through 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... -
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists Catherine Marsh 9780745622835
RRP: $35.08$32.06The 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... -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691216430
RRP: $31.18$25.17Finalist 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... -
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions by Damon Centola 9780691202426
RRP: $42.90$33.85A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned... -
Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum by Fernando Dominguez Rubio
RRP: $60.45$59.65How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins
RRP: $72.13$63.43This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions... -
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs 9781400076703
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies 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... -
The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for Our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future Anthony Costello 9781912664009
RRP: $48.75$40.37Apologies 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
$52.36Social 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... -
The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life by Jay Belsky 9780674293854
RRP: $38.90$31.43A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"Brings the groundbreaking research of the top developmental psychologists of the past quarter-century to a wider audience...A masterpiece!"-Dante Cicchetti, Institute for Child Development at the University of... -
A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
RRP: $33.13$29.46'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatA parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.When Carolyn Hays's child made clear... -
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams 9781479814312
RRP: $31.18$28.04Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering... -
Research Methods by Professor Peter Stokes 9780230362031
RRP: $46.78$46.41The Business Briefings series offers authoritative introductory textbooks in core business topics. Covering the basics and providing springboards to further study, the books take a no-nonsense practical approach, and are ideal as accessible introductions... -
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities by Brian Ladd
RRP: $50.70$49.24Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and... -
The New Oxford Companion to Law by Peter Cane 9780199290543
$209.43For any reader needing a concise yet expert explanation of a subject in law The New Oxford Companion to Law is the ideal reference work. Providing greater depth than can be found in legal dictionaries but always accessible to the non-specialist, entries... -
Society and Economy: Framework and Principles by Mark Granovetter
RRP: $74.00$59.49Society and Economy-a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology-is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate... -
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris 9781591847922
RRP: $37.03$28.31Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference... -
The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex by Manon Garcia 9780674279131
RRP: $46.70$33.75"From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, 'consent' is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool... -
Essentials of Critical-Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods by Heidi M Levitt
RRP: $44.83$37.69This book provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory (CCGT) methods. This flexible approach can aid researchers in investigating topics within psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural contexts. It... -
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions by Todd Rose 9780306925689
RRP: $58.50$42.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306925689Author Todd RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette GoPublisher Hachette GoWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 28mm -
The Utopia Experiment Dylan Evans 9781447261308
RRP: $21.43$17.43As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope?In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech... -
Assembly (NiP) by Michael Hardt
RRP: $36.06$32.99In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders,... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case
RRP: $42.90$33.21A 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... -
Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding the Message by Georges Jean
RRP: $15.50$10.88How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into... -
Modern Love Marcus Collins 9781903809648
RRP: $39.00$27.87'In Modern Love, Marcus Collins sets out to survey the changing expectations men and women have brought to their relationships with one another.' -- Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph Drawing on social, economic and political history, Modern Love explains... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: World Powers and International Issues, Second Edition Frank Cooney 9781510429161
$44.89Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to the course content and prepares students to cope with the increased emphasis on... -
The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation John W. Bennett 9780765805348
RRP: $89.68$79.03Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While... -
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen 9780198297581
RRP: $68.23$48.11In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know. Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in... -
"The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress " by Virginia Postrel 9780684862699
$26.23Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684862699Author Virginia PostrelFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge; Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge) 9781509546787
RRP: $126.75$82.00This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book... -
Jambalaya by Luisah Teish
RRP: $35.08$22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062508591Author Luisal TeishFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett 9780393313918
RRP: $45.83$40.37Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love-all in the... -
Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Renaissance by Emily Zobel Marshall 9789766402617
RRP: $74.00$63.71This interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales.Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean, who symbolises key aspects of Afro-Caribbean... -
Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South by Maziyar Ghiabi 9780367585181
RRP: $77.98$68.37More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had... -
Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn 9780609805367
RRP: $29.23$21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609805367Author Daniel QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 124g -
Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland by Nerys T Patterson
RRP: $241.80$208.73In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods,... -
Exploring Disability Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) 9780745634869
RRP: $64.33$57.64The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability... -
Envisioning Democracy: New Essays after Sheldon Wolin's Political Thought by Terry Maley 9781487565602
RRP: $115.05$99.47Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations' public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political... -
Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword by Judith Lewis Herman
RRP: $50.60$40.25Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword,... -
Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together by Francesco Guala 9780691171784
RRP: $68.25$54.09Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three...