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The Monocle Guide to Better Living by The Monocle 9783899554908
€49.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899554908Author The MonocleFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Proven Psychological Manipulation Techniques: Guiltless Guide into the Psychology of How Cunning People Get What They Want. How to Play Secret Dark Games to Seize Control and Always Win by Emory Green 9781647801021
RRP: €20.22€12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647801021Author Emory GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Modern Mind MediaPublisher Modern Mind MediaWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture by Johannes Fabian 9780813917863
€35.52In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large... -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745608303
RRP: €29.74€26.43The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is... -
Evidence: Law and Context Claire Mcgourlay 9781032542775
RRP: €42.83€37.71Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on... -
Kurdish Women's Stories Houzan Mahmoud 9780745341149
RRP: €20.22€13.73'A fascinating, inspiring journey' - Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s,... -
Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell 9780465045891
RRP: €27.36€19.37Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a... -
AQA GCSE 9-1 Sociology Student Book (AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology) by Pauline Wilson
RRP: €33.31€32.21Exam board: AQALevel & subject: GCSE 9-1 SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017Next exams: June 2023 Get your students engaging with the 2017 specification: all the knowledge and skills students need to succeed set out in clear, approachable... -
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto 9780865718548
RRP: €17.84€11.76Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are... -
Brian and Arthur's Modern Family: Births, marriages, deaths and everything in between by Brian Dowling-Gourounlian 9780717198481
RRP: €22.60€16.20Brian 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... -
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
RRP: €15.46€12.26Claude M. Steele, who has been called "one of the few great social psychologists," offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social... -
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385415804Author William PoundstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 238g -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: €44.03€38.87The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on... -
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) by Richard Layard
RRP: €13.08€9.25In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story... -
Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: €22.60€18.62A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark... -
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: €22.60€18.41In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh... -
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: €13.08€9.25Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have... -
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: €9.51€6.66'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... -
Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences by Frances Clegg 9780521288026
RRP: €25.88€24.93Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates... -
THE GREAT MUGHALS by FARHAT NASREEN
€8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390260126Author FARHAT NASREENFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze 9780008374990
RRP: €17.84€9.52Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this... -
Remaking Culture and Music Spaces: Affects, Infrastructures, Futures by Ian Woodward 9781032184999
RRP: €47.59€41.72This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing, and curating new objects... -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745610337
RRP: €27.36€23.99Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This... -
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern 9781529356441
RRP: €13.08€7.70'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born... -
Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day by Stephen Brooke 9780199680979
€35.89Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship... -
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency by Vicky Spratt 9781788161275
RRP: €23.80€17.48ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN 'Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - Pandora Sykes 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... it forces you to step back, look at the whole... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: €13.08€8.71Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise... -
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
RRP: €22.60€15.27In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types... -
Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate with Esoterics, Fanatics and Conspiracy Believers by Holm Gero Hümmler 9783662660317
RRP: €29.74€18.05When having coffee with your family, you are offered energized water. On Twitter you discuss with vaccination opponents. The WhatsApp kitagroup discusses zodiac signs, the pharmacy sells you globules, the neighbor proselytizes for her guru, and the news... -
Cities for People Jan Gehl 9781597265737
RRP: €54.74€46.92For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence 9780198779544
RRP: €21.41€18.47Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through the... -
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts Michael Grenfell 9781844655304
RRP: €30.93€26.93The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature,... -
Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman
RRP: €27.36€21.77Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a... -
Politics of Affect Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: €19.03€17.15'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth... -
OCR A-level Sociology Student Guide 3: Debates in contemporary society: Globalisation and the digital social world; Crime and deviance Katherine Roberts 9781510472075
€15.10Reinforce understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 3: Debates in contemporary society: Globalisation and the digital social world; and Crime and deviance.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style... -
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudounaris
RRP: €29.75€19.60A macabre, spectacular and thought-provoking survey of human remains used in decorative, commemorative or devotional contexts across the world today, from the author of Heavenly Bodies and The Empire of Death. Memento Mori takes the reader on a... -
Pluralism, Justice, and Equality by David Miller 9780198279372
€88.26The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Justice. Is social justice a radically plural notion, with its principles determined by the different... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: €20.23€17.40In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: €13.08€9.25Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in?As Charles... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: €23.80€17.48In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout...