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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781838854386
RRP: $39.00$26.25The 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... -
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
RRP: $21.43$15.15'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... -
Boulevard Wren and Other Stories by Blindboy Boatclub
RRP: $24.38$17.10Boulevard 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 Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper 9781915294135
RRP: $39.00$24.63'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: $29.23$26.48Pierre 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... -
Let Them Rot by Alenka Zupancic 9781739516109
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies 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: $17.45$12.52Apologies 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 -
No Visible Bruises: what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us by Rachel Louise Snyder
RRP: $19.48$13.07NEW 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... -
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
RRP: $21.43$17.59"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... -
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
RRP: $21.43$15.15Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of... -
The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations Norbert Elias (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld) 9780631221616
RRP: $60.35$54.31The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them... -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: $29.25$25.45Forty 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... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: $25.33$17.73A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene... -
Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Carol Appleby 9780306806810
$35.28The 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... -
Education Still Under Siege, 2nd Edition by Stanley Aronowitz 9780897893114
$77.01Cultural 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: $29.23$21.68Apologies 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: $21.43$15.15Below 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... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: $48.75$35.14'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the... -
The Jungle: A Personal Journey with the Enfant Terrible of Nigerian Journalism by David Hundeyin 9781739267599
RRP: $31.18$21.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739267599Author David HundeyinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK -
The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life: How to Thrive at Work by Leaving Your Emotional Baggage Behind by Naomi Shragai
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: $21.43$14.27In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today's young people will pay heavier taxes, work longer hours for less money and... -
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
RRP: $21.43$9.28As 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... -
The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are by Robert Wright
RRP: $29.23$19.11THE 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... -
Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings by Kristiina Koskentola 9789493148949
RRP: $46.80$29.72Apologies 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: $21.43$13.88*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: $48.75$34.36Renowned 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... -
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.43$15.15Zizek 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... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin
RRP: $42.88$37.42The 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: $5.85$4.86'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... -
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780008543211
RRP: $21.43$13.88Bringing 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,... -
The Relate Guide to Better Relationships: Practical Ways to Make Your Love Last from the Experts in Marriage Guidance by Sarah Litvinoff
RRP: $29.23$21.35'When I fall in love it will be forever...' or so goes the song. The reality can be different and the truth is that the nature of relationships will change over time. Few things can be more distressing than finding that you and your partner are no... -
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker 9780241540510
RRP: $48.75$35.14*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... -
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown
RRP: $38.90$31.43One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and... -
Countryfile: Adam's Farm: My Life on the Land Adam Henson 9781849900706
RRP: $39.00$26.33In 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... -
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $39.00$28.65Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 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... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: $15.58$11.29'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... -
Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates 9781471169267
RRP: $19.48$12.50A 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,... -
Sociology for AQA Volume 2: 2nd-Year A Level Ken Browne (North Warwickshire and Hinckley College) 9780745696942
RRP: $44.83$42.43An AQA-approved resource. Sociology for AQA Volume 2 is the new edition of Ken Browne, Jonathan Blundell and Pamela Law's widely used textbook, designed for the second year of AQA's new Sociology A level (for first teaching from September 2015). The... -
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
RRP: $27.28$22.66Elaine 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...