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The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509558193
RRP: €19.03€17.15Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: €24.98€17.36In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Theorizing Childhood Allison James 9780745615653
RRP: €21.41€19.09In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism Amelia Horgan 9780745340913
RRP: €11.89€8.09***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old... -
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Social issues in the UK, Second Edition Frank Cooney 9781510429154
€27.39Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to the course content and prepares students to cope with the increased emphasis on... -
Sociology: The Basics by Ken Plummer
RRP: €23.79€21.05A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is packed with thought-provoking summaries, questions, quotations and... -
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176051Author Jessica HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: €17.84€12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198552Author Jenny OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 266g -
Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson 9780349118857
€15.15Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: €29.74€25.92Foucault 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... -
Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change by Linda Aspey 9781915220271
RRP: €28.55€26.62Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking... -
Sociology: Making Sense of Society by Samantha Punch
€63.38The fifth edition of Sociology: Making Sense of Society retains the highly praised four-part structure and style of the fourth edition, and through this explores the diversity, contradictions and challenges we face in our social world. This essential... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: €29.75€23.31In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in by Kate Kennedy 9781250285126
RRP: €29.74€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250285126Author Kate KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture Sherronda J. Brown 9781623177102
RRP: €20.22€13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177102Author Sherronda J. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub 9780717181001
RRP: €13.08€10.03Sunday 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... -
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,... -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: €29.75€24.16This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system,... -
Transgenerational Colonialism: Reconstructing Collective and Personal Identity by Karel James Bouse 9781793623997
RRP: €91.63€84.35In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse offers an alternative and holistic model for the analysis of colonialism and its effects on humanity. Using the current anti-colonialist struggle in Northern Ireland as a representative case study,... -
Consuming Life Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745640020
RRP: €19.03€17.15With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and... -
Social Work Theory and Methods: The Essentials Neil Thompson 9781138629783
RRP: €44.02€38.71This 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... -
The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor Adorno
RRP: €15.46€14.21Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and... -
Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige
RRP: €29.74€25.95'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class... -
The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety Fiona Vera-Gray (University of Durham) 9781447342298
RRP: €17.84€14.43Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, and yet women and girls are the first to be blamed the inevitable... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science) 9781447336068
RRP: €23.79€18.75Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show... -
Routledge Handbook of Social Futures by Carlos López Galviz 9781032129549
RRP: €52.35€45.74Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies. Engaging with key defining questions of... -
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
RRP: €20.22€13.65The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and... -
Essentials of Autoethnography Christopher N. Poulos 9781433834547
RRP: €27.36€23.00The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather... -
Failure Arjun Appadurai 9781509504725
RRP: €15.46€14.21Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by... -
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown
RRP: €13.08€8.81Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level... -
The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens by David Brooks
RRP: €15.46€11.79David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, revealing a fundamental new understanding of human nature. He outlines a new definition of success, highlighting what economists call non-cognitive skills -... -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: €26.17€21.86Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
Girlhood Unfiltered: A Milk Honey Bees essay collection by Ebinehita Iyere 9781913311179
RRP: €9.51€6.22An anthology of essays, letters, and creative work reflecting on the experience of Black girlhood, by an inspiring group of teenage girls. The voices of young Black girls are too often left out of conversations on the Black girl experience; in this... -
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg 9781487521851
RRP: €23.79€19.90If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless... -
<i>Anyone</i>: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology by Nigel Rapport 9781782385264
RRP: €33.26€26.87The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet... -
Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
RRP: €11.89€9.65'The powerful new voice of her generation' The Times 'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson 'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie ------- A candid... -
Denmark - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Mark H. Salmon 9781857338843
RRP: €9.51€7.31Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Human Givens: An empowering approach to emotional health and clear thinking by Joe Griffin 9781899398928
RRP: €20.22€14.61In this seminal book, the authors exquisitely describe one of the most important psychological insights of our age: how we all come into the world with a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure-house of innate knowledge patterns: the 'human... -
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown 9780333753446
€107.42Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. This study examines major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of... -
After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis Bruno Latour (Ecoles des mines, Paris, France) 9781509550029
RRP: €17.84€11.66After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to 'the world as it was before the pandemic'. But there is another way to...