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Mr Finchley Goes to Paris by Victor Canning
RRP: $15.42$10.51An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood 9781529111439
RRP: $22.28$15.59From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant'... -
A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World by Angela Y. Davis 9781509546237
RRP: $30.86$27.51The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's... -
Classic Writings in Law and Society: Contemporary Comments and Criticisms by A. Javier Trevino
RRP: $78.89$68.83Over against such reference volumes as encyclopedias, which are intended to provide an overview and summary of a subject, and dictionaries, which define a series of terms, "commentaries" generally consist of a collection of lectures or essays... -
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $15.42$11.06'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
RRP: $25.71$18.78From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse... -
Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 2: 2nd-Year A Level by Ken Browne 9781509516261
RRP: $22.28$21.17The essential revision guide for A-level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. Together with Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1, this indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear... -
Brian and Arthur's Modern Family: Births, marriages, deaths and everything in between by Brian Dowling-Gourounlian 9780717198481
RRP: $32.57$23.35Brian Dowling and Arthur Gourounlian are among Ireland's most beloved television personalities and social media stars. The internet exploded when the couple announced they were expecting their first child, with Brian's sister Aoife acting as their... -
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods by Chris Smaje
RRP: $25.71$16.81'If you want real food, food security and a truly biodiverse countryside, please, please read this book.' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland '[A] timely response to those who are constructing a dystopia of farms without farmers, food without... -
Be Brave: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Shyness by Poppy O'Neill
RRP: $18.85$12.69An interactive workbook for parents and children from the author of the best-selling titles Don't Worry, Be Happy: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and You're a Star: A Child's Guide to Self-Esteem Does your child appear nervous and isolated in... -
Political Correctness Gone Mad? by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: $15.42$11.06'Without free speech there is no true thought.' -Jordan Peterson 'If you're white, this country is one giant safe space.' -Michael Eric Dyson The Munk debate on political correctness Is political correctness an enemy of free speech,... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies by Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9780367750732
RRP: $75.46$66.62This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman's sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it brings together the work of leading scholars of... -
Taking Heart: A heartwarming family saga set in Bristol by Rowena Summers 9781804365434
RRP: $15.42$9.98Can sisterhood pull them through the darkest days?Imogen Caldwell and her sisters, Daisy and Elsie, are fighting to save their childhood home and stay in Bristol. After times became hard their father sold the family business - now all they have left is... -
Annihilation Of Caste: With A Reply To Mahatma Gandhi by Dr Ambedkar 9789354206337
RRP: $15.44$13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354206337Author Dr AmbedkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm -
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine
RRP: $37.74$24.97'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books ...Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement 'Dougald Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into that abyss and rethink our securest certainties... -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: $32.57$25.78Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
Sociology: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Paul Oliver
RRP: $25.71$16.81Sociology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing... -
Empires – A Historical and Political Sociology by K Kumar
RRP: $29.14$26.11Empires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations... -
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies by Mats Alvesson 9780199595686
$77.91Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established social practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges prevailing systems of... -
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Funny, emotional and deeply inspiring, this is perfect for anyone wanting to break out of their comfort zone' HeatWhat would happen if a shy introvert lived as an out-and-out extrovert for one year? Jessica Pan is about to find out... *When she found... -
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
RRP: $32.57$23.35BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie SmithA shining... -
No Visible Bruises: what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us by Rachel Louise Snyder
RRP: $17.14$11.49NEW AND UPDATED - A NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, AND ESQUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Love, desire, intimacy - we all know what these are meant to look like. But what happens when they descend into violence? Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder once... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: $17.14$11.78'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball 'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what it looks like is love' Evening Standard The... -
Blowback by Professor Chalmers Johnson 9780751530803
$19.59This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be a payback... -
A Wood of One's Own by Ruth Pavey
RRP: $18.85$12.01Touring the West Country in the late 1990s, Pavey found herself in the Somerset Levels. On seeing this expanse of reclaimed land under its wide, soft skies she was struck by its beauty and set-out to plant a wood, tree by tree. She bought four acres, and... -
Let Them Rot by Alenka Zupancic 9781739516109
RRP: $20.57$13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739516109Author Alenka ZupancicFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
RRP: $22.28$14.55Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed 'rise of the... -
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
RRP: $15.42$11.06There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction... -
It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett
RRP: $34.29$27.03This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there. The book puts the emphasis on class and gender processes, revealing them to be... -
Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft by Lynn Cassells
RRP: $32.57$21.87[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The Telegraph I raced through this beautiful story with mounting awe and... -
The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper 9781915294135
RRP: $34.31$22.90'A windswept love letter to Scotland's heritage sheep and to the Orkney farming community too.' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray, and the... -
Beyond Bourdieu by Will Atkinson 9781509507498
RRP: $25.71$23.29Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of... -
Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: $15.35$11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098731Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745640020
RRP: $27.43$24.72With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and... -
City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another by Quill R Kukla
RRP: $51.44$45.18City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: $18.85$13.33Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a... -
Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780850363821
RRP: $18.78$16.24"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual... -
Boulevard Wren and Other Stories by Blindboy Boatclub
RRP: $21.44$15.04Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche. Provocative and unsettling, the stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray 9781472942241
RRP: $32.57$24.03THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and... -
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $29.14$19.79Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose...