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Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory by Wacquant
RRP: €21.41€19.09Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loic Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what... -
Fashion Theory: An Introduction by Malcolm Barnard 9780415496216
RRP: €52.35€45.74Fashion is both big business and big news. From models' eating disorders and sweated labour to the glamour of a new season's trends, statements and arguments about fashion and the fashion industry can be found in every newspaper, consumer website and... -
Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory by Nick Hubble 9780230247888
RRP: €53.54€53.51The social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: €28.55€23.22This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Fr Gregory Boyle
RRP: €22.60€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476726168Author Fr Gregory BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities by Darren O'Byrne 9781783482306
RRP: €52.36€45.98Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very... -
Health Mildred Blaxter (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) 9780745648460
RRP: €19.03€17.15The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and... -
Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method Mark Harris 9780815347200
RRP: €44.02€38.71In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human... -
Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics) 9780745648989
RRP: €20.22€18.11Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With... -
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss 9780691203836
RRP: €29.75€23.31A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities... -
The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century by Will Hutton
RRP: €15.46€3.46China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed... -
Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity by Jonathan Purkis
RRP: €29.75€20.97At a time of climate crisis, isolation and social breakdown, Driving with strangers is a manifesto to alter how we think about our place in the world. Veteran hitchhiker and lifelong aficionado of hitchhiking culture, Purkis journeys through the history... -
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James Meek
RRP: €20.22€14.61Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence... -
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard 9781473982383
RRP: €53.54€43.54Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady 9780190947361
RRP: €52.94€50.19Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for... -
Changing Rural Life: A Christian Response to Life and Work in the Countryside by Jeremy Martineau 9781853115998
€25.30A prestigious and significant volume offering theological relection on a wide range of issues relating to the countryside, the rural economy and rural life. At a time when it has been officially recognised that British society is deeply uninformed about... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: €10.70€7.24What 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... -
Knowledges Born in the Struggle: Constructing the Epistemologies of the Global South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
RRP: €49.97€43.73In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing. Rather than... -
Liquid Fear Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745636801
RRP: €20.22€18.11Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural... -
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
RRP: €41.65€33.01For 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... -
Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840: Modes of Reproduction Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge University) 9780631154389
RRP: €26.12€23.47Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable. Explores why people married, at what... -
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: €30.94€29.57China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign... -
Markets in the Making - Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation by Michel Callon
RRP: €33.32€25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130574Author Michel CallonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins 9780230537699
RRP: €53.54€47.71Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to create participatory and... -
A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety by Stephen J Toope 9781009299459
RRP: €35.70€30.88Taking Auden's Age of Anxiety as a leitmotiv and drawing on literature from law, philosophy, political theory, international relations, and sociology, Toope argues with passion that a renewed faith in the rule of law can address troubling developments in... -
Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need by Harvey Mackay 9780385485463
RRP: €20.22€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385485463Author Harvey MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Unspeak: Words Are Weapons by Steven Poole 9780349119243
€15.15Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'global warming'; we say 'ethnic cleansing' when we mean mass... -
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime by Henning Hillmann
RRP: €35.70€27.72Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant... -
Pervasive Punishment: Making Sense of Mass Supervision by Fergus McNeill 9781787564664
RRP: €36.88€31.32Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award. Despite its dramatic proliferation and diversification in recent decades, supervisory forms of punishment in the community (like probation, parole and unpaid work) have been largely invisible in scholarly and public... -
The Perennials: How to Unlock the Potential of our Multigenerational Society by Mauro Guillen 9781788706650
RRP: €23.80€16.24'Will open your mind to your own future and show you a new world of adventure.' - ARTHUR C. BROOKSFor the first time in human history, eight defined generations live together side by side, from Alphas to the Greatest Generation by way of Boomers,... -
The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective by Harvey Cox 9780691158853
RRP: €23.80€18.91Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular... -
Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler
RRP: €19.03€14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900361Author Heike GeisslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye 9782359260052
RRP: €65.39€54.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260052Author Stephen Adebanji AkintoyeFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism by Catherine Casey 9780415112031
RRP: €57.11€49.75Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in... -
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman
RRP: €15.46€10.23George Friedman's company, STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting), has received incredible accolades for working ahead of the news media and being right on the pulse of political and military action as it unfolds across the globe. A private intelligence... -
Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 1: by Concept by Paul Grace
€32.14Exam Board: IBLevel: MYPSubject: Social ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused... -
Decolonize Hipsters by Gregory Pierrot
RRP: €15.46€10.27Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of... -
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress by Lawrence Harrison 9780465031764
€29.17Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression.Book... -
The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
RRP: €23.79€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618446711Author Darcy FreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 17mm -
Ireland Through a Critical Lense: A Miscellany of Life-Writing on Politics, Culture and Film by Desmond Bell 9781782055778
RRP: €53.55€43.73This compendium gathers together his published work and films produced over the last forty years. This material is refashioned for a contemporary readership and supplemented with a number of original essays that enable the reader to cross-reference the...