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Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory by Stefan Eich 9780231212793
RRP: £32.00£24.27Seyla Benhabib's ongoing work has expanded the range and scope of critical theory beyond its origins to address questions of gender, migration, and difference. This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: £14.99£13.58Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and... -
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson 9780008607890
RRP: £10.99£7.25How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE... -
Violence and Society by Larry Ray
RRP: £37.99£31.58This highly respected title comes revised and updated in a second edition to provide you with a contemporary overview of violence and society. Clearly and lucidly written, this book offers broad coverage of theoretical debates, using case studies... -
AQA A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods (Collins Student Support Materials) by Steve Chapman
RRP: £10.99£10.77Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: A-level SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Collins Student Support Materials provide an essential course companion and revision aid. Written by experienced teachers and senior... -
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack 9780674248243
RRP: £15.95£12.80An NPR Favorite Book of the Year"Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import."-Washington Post"An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students... -
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck
RRP: £48.99£39.91This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current... -
Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations: Process Views by Jorg Sydow 9781787565920
RRP: £74.99£62.18This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of inter-organizational collaboration and explores new topics that call for inquiry. It shows that... -
The Evolution of Co-Operation by Robert Axelrod
RRP: £12.99£9.09How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in this age of... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.46In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Sociology for Social Work: An Introduction by Chris Yuill 9781848606517
RRP: £38.99£31.98This excellent textbook introduces the social work student to the field of sociology, illustrating how sociology is connected to and fundamental to effective social work practice. Each chapter applies theory to practice and is uniquely co-written by a... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: £9.99£6.70In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance... -
Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved and Those Wanting to Support Them by Katrina Taee
RRP: £17.99£12.95Are you grieving? Would you like to have a better understanding of grief? Are you wanting to support someone who is grieving but don't know how? This beautifully illustrated book written by two experienced Bereavement Practitioners is unlike any other... -
Living Together: Searching for Community in a Fractured World by Mim Skinner
RRP: £14.99£9.72'I loved it! Brilliantly written, probing and necessary' PANDORA SYKES'Skinner goes in search of a different way of life . . . a sensitive and colourful account' New StatesmanFrom the author of Jailbirds and one of Elle's '50 Game Changers' (2019) comes... -
Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age by Anthony Giddens 9780745609324
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed... -
Social Work Theory and Methods: The Essentials by Neil Thompson 9781138629783
RRP: £36.99£32.53This gateway text lays the foundations for a thorough knowledge of the theory and methods that social workers need. Pulling together the work of a team of experts, this book uses the innovative "theorizing practice" approach, rather than the traditional... -
Education: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Thomas 9780198859086
RRP: £8.99£6.45Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas... -
AQA A Level Sociology Beliefs in Society (Collins Student Support Materials) by Martin Holborn
RRP: £10.99£10.77Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: A-level SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Collins Student Support Materials provide an essential course companion and revision aid. Written by experienced teachers and senior... -
Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant
RRP: £9.99£7.25The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist... -
Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates 9781471169267
RRP: £9.99£6.41A 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,... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: £27.99£25.65Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
Russia 2010: And What it Means for the World : the Cera Report by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £17.00£12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679759225Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
Seeing for Ourselves: And Even Stranger Possibilities by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan 9781914221224
£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221224Author Suhaiymah Manzoor-KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Art Practice by Janwillem Schrofer
RRP: £19.90£18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095404Author Janwillem SchroferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 20mm -
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99£7.77Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how... -
Reasons to be Hopeful: what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
RRP: £19.99£13.89An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so... -
Surfing about Music by Timothy J. Cooley 9780520276642
RRP: £25.00£19.18This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: £12.99£4.71Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year... -
Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis by Margaret Wetherell
RRP: £42.99£35.55`A highly effective introduction which gives readers a clear sense of how to analyze discourse data and then employ the analytic approaches in their own research' - David Silverman, Goldsmith's College, University of London This workbook will be... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: £12.99£11.94The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything... -
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
RRP: £12.99£11.46Claude 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... -
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation by John McManus
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation' BEN... -
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406
RRP: £14.99£9.80From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of... -
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal
RRP: £25.99£22.44"Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described-or indeed, better explained..... -
The Museum as a Space of Social Care by Nuala Morse 9780367561864
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE Sociology: Student Book by Steve Tivey
£30.77Written by two experienced teachers, this accessible and engaging student book is endorsed by WJEC Eduqas, offering you high quality support you can trust // A simple and straightforward double page spread layout makes for easy navigation around the... -
Social Determinants of Health by Michael Marmot 9780198565895
RRP: £64.00£61.97Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it... -
Natural Relations?: Animal Rights, Human Rights and the Environment by Ted Benton 9780860915904
RRP: £18.99£16.10In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals,... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £24.99£22.37Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School... -
The Origins of English Individualism: Family, Property and Social Transition by Alan MacFarlane 9780631127611
RRP: £21.95£19.32The Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of...