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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
RRP: $23.08$16.32'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... -
Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time by Stephen A. Mitchell
RRP: $27.28$26.06Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships-it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk... -
The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper 9781915294135
RRP: $42.00$26.52'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 Will Atkinson (University of Bristol, UK) 9781509507498
RRP: $31.48$28.52Pierre 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... -
Prophetic Grappling: Including as-Suyuti's al-Musārʿah ilā al-Muṣārʿah by Nisar Shaikh 9781915025159
$27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025159Author Nisar ShaikhFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)... -
Let Them Rot by Alenka Zupancic 9781739516109
RRP: $25.18$16.80Apologies 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 -
Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: $18.80$13.48Apologies 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 -
Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates 9781471169267
RRP: $20.98$13.46A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran 'Piercingly astute.' StylistLaura Bates, pioneering feminist,... -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: $31.50$27.41Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one... -
A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott
RRP: $29.38$21.32A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of... -
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
RRP: $23.08$18.77"It is easier to imagine the end of the world," the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, "than to imagine the end of capitalism." Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our... -
The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are by Robert Wright
RRP: $31.48$20.58THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be human.Taking the life of Charles Darwin as his context, Robert Wright brilliantly demonstrates how Darwin's ideas have stood the... -
No Visible Bruises: what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us by Rachel Louise Snyder
RRP: $20.98$14.07NEW 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... -
Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Carol Appleby 9780306806810
$37.99The Jimi Hendrix Experience had one of the most dazzling and sensational careers of any band. Their roller-coaster ride through a schedule of sell-out tours and frantic recording sessions left them crazed with sex, drugs, stardom, and exhaustion but at... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas 9780141996974
RRP: $23.08$16.32A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York... -
Education Still Under Siege, 2nd Edition by Stanley Aronowitz 9780897893114
$82.93Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic... -
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt by Debbie Nathan 9780595189557
RRP: $31.48$23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595189557Author Debbie NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 422g -
The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City by Jan-Andrew Henderson
RRP: $23.08$16.32Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning... -
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
RRP: $23.08$10.00As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to... -
Canada: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Wright 9780198755241
RRP: $18.88$13.55Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this... -
Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings by Kristiina Koskentola 9789493148949
RRP: $50.40$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148949Author Kristiina KoskentolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) by Sarah Chaney 9781788162463
RRP: $23.08$14.95*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail... -
2020: A Reckoning by Eric Klinenberg 9781847926937
RRP: $52.50$37.00Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $23.08$15.37Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the... -
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $23.08$16.32Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and Lacan, as well as frequent references to popular... -
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781838854386
RRP: $42.00$28.27The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin
RRP: $46.18$40.30The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race... -
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
RRP: $6.30$5.23'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: $23.08$16.32THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker 'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' Economist... -
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
RRP: $20.98$10.77In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: $41.98$37.99No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First... -
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780008543211
RRP: $23.08$14.95Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender,... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: $16.78$12.16'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and... -
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker 9780241540510
RRP: $52.50$37.84*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*'A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind ... A treasure' Doireann Ni GhriofaIn Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to... -
Countryfile: Adam's Farm: My Life on the Land Adam Henson 9781849900706
RRP: $42.00$28.35In 2001, Adam Henson was chosen from 3,500 applicants to become a presenter on Countryfile. Adam's agricultural knowledge and open manner soon made him a popular figure and when the programme moved to its current Sunday evening slot in 2009, he began to... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: $23.08$16.32The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps... -
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
RRP: $23.08$16.32A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focuses... -
Exploited: A young girl trapped in a world of abuse and fear. Can the love of a foster mother set her free? Maggie Hartley 9781409197461
RRP: $16.78$11.76'He said he loved me.'Fourteen-year-old Hannah comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley after her mum pleads with Social Services to take her into care, unable to cope with her daughter anymore. Previously a good student, a loving daughter and... -
Polywise: a deeper dive into navigating open relationships by Jessica Fern 9781915590602
RRP: $35.68$24.32As polyamory continues to make its way into the mainstream, more and more people are exploring consensual non-monogamy in the hope of experiencing more love, connection, sex, freedom, and support. While for many, the move expands personal horizons, for... -
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
RRP: $29.38$24.30Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While...