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Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: £21.00£20.31Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can... -
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman 9780375703799
RRP: £16.53£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703799Author Katherine S. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: £12.99£8.63Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern... -
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... -
Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved and Those Wanting to Support Them Katrina Taee 9781916288409
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£9.98'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... -
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work Melissa Gira Grant 9781781683231
RRP: £10.99£8.94The 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... -
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... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: £17.99£16.04This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case 9780691217079
RRP: £14.99£10.33A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom... -
Introduction to Systems Theory by Niklas Luhmann 9780745645728
RRP: £18.99£16.87Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of disciplines... -
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
RRP: £8.99£6.45There 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... -
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective by Gregory L. Possehl 9780759101722
RRP: £47.00£41.60The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of... -
Reasons to be Hopeful: what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
RRP: £19.99£14.21An 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... -
Democracy - The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9780765808684
RRP: £46.99£40.97The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its... -
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han 9780804794602
RRP: £11.99£10.94Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone... -
Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis by Margaret Wetherell
RRP: £42.99£35.42`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... -
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code 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... -
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 -
Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy by Rod Liddle
RRP: £8.99£6.02With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain. 'One of Britain's funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren't so offensive you'd almost call him a national treasure' Mail on Sunday 'I,... -
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub 9780717181001
RRP: £10.99£8.43Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE Sociology: Student Book Marion Davies 9781911208204
£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: £71.00£69.41Social 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... -
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... -
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann
RRP: £30.99£24.55A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing... -
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 9781552453957
RRP: £12.99£8.63A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty?If every... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
The Silo Effect: Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive by Gillian Tett 9781844087594 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the... -
The Silo Effect: Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive Gillian Tett 9781844087594
RRP: £9.99£6.80Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the... -
Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond by Hubert Buch-Hansen 9781352010657 [USED COPY]
RRP: £27.99£14.97Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realism This new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic... -
Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond by Hubert Buch-Hansen 9781352010657
£28.38Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realism This new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic... -
The Three Ecologies Felix Guattari ((1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.) 9781847063052
RRP: £21.99£21.89Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £24.99£21.78Foucault 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 Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions by Didier Fassin 9781509558285
RRP: £17.99£16.44Public health erupted into the world's consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very... -
Governing Biobanks: Understanding the Interplay between Law and Practice by Jane Kaye
RRP: £100.00£50.87Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research. By linking samples to data on the health of individuals, it is anticipated that biobanks will be used to explore... -
Beneath the Moon: Fairytales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani
RRP: £13.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857224Author Yoshi YoshitaniFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Haralambos and Holborn - AQA A Level Sociology Themes and Perspectives: Year 1 and AS by Mike Haralambos
RRP: £27.99£27.07Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS / A-level Year 1 SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 The most up-to-date coverage and in-depth exam support for AQA A-level Sociology, from the bestselling authors of... -
China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Indre Balcikonyte-Huang 9781787028807
RRP: £9.99£7.54Don't just see the sights get to know the people. For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system, based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence... -
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt
RRP: £18.99£9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063032378Author Steven D LevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm...