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The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: €79.72€68.82An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's... -
Ethnography: Principles in Practice by Martyn Hammersley
RRP: €47.59€41.72Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on 'Ethnography... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
RRP: €22.60€15.27ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH?Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on the doldrums by taking a cheerleading class. Then -... -
From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture by Elizabeth Bell
RRP: €21.41€19.23From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences,... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain by Lisa McKenzie 9781447309956
RRP: €20.22€16.16While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: €21.41€19.09This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets by Jennifer Kavanagh
RRP: €11.89€8.09In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface,... -
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More by Blair Imani
RRP: €16.65€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860545Author Blair ImaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide by Gary Goertz
RRP: €57.12€45.71Concepts lie at the core of social science theory and methodology. They provide substance to theories; they form the basis of measurement; they influence the selection of cases. Social Science Concepts: A Users Guide explores alternative means of concept... -
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism by Sarah Ahmed
RRP: €57.11€50.23With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, Transformations traces both the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point, and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with... -
White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society by Kalwant Bhopal
RRP: €16.65€13.57Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal... -
Rumours of a Better Country: Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage by Marsh Moyle 9781789744675
RRP: €23.79€16.99Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any... -
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theory and Political Significance by Rolf Wiggershaus 9780745616216
RRP: €29.74€27.14This widely acclaimed book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history and ideas of the Frankfurt School - the most important and influential group of leftist intellectuals, philosophers and social theorists in Germany this century... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: €15.46€10.82Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the... -
Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
RRP: €17.84€13.23A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place... -
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America by Lawrence Wright
RRP: €13.08€9.25'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a... -
Building Dignified Worlds: Geographies of Collective Action by Gerda Roelvink 9780816683178
RRP: €28.55€24.29Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers... -
Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities by Conrad Hughes
RRP: €44.02€38.71Education and Elitism discusses polemical debates around privilege, private schools, elitist universities, equal access to education and underlying notions of fairness. The overarching question that runs through the book is about the future of education... -
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre 9781472507167
RRP: €26.17€24.50Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the... -
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by Dr Brian Klaas 9781529338089
RRP: €23.80€15.89'Pertinent!' Margaret Atwood'Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' Adam Grant'Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out the story of the... -
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
RRP: €11.89€9.02A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves. "Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so... -
Sport Heritage by Gregory Ramshaw
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. It provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, marketing,... -
The Vegan Guide: Everything you need to embrace the world's fastest growing way of life by Alex Bourke
RRP: €5.95€4.55The Vegan Guide covers everything you need to embrace the world's fastest growing way of life. It covers all the issues including why vegan, the latest nutrition information (older books will be out of date on vitamin B12 in particular), cooking... -
Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford
RRP: €13.08€8.81In this moving and authoritative work which combines dedicated research and interviews with victims of childhood abuse and neglect, psychotherapist Linda Sanford passionately refutes the received wisdom that such people are trapped in a vicious circle of... -
A Land of Dreams: A Study of Jewish and Caribbean Migrant Communities in England by Simon Taylor 9781032317205
RRP: €34.50€29.86A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of London, and the growth of an African-Caribbean community in Birmingham. It is an ethnographic study of two... -
Economy and Society by Max Weber 9780520280021
RRP: €89.25€70.77Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern sociological imagination. The first... -
Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England by Professor Janet V. Finch
RRP: €57.11€50.23Inheritance, once the preserve of the propertied upper classes, has become a much more common experience. Many more people now than in the past have something of material value to bequeath when they die, mainly because of the spread of home ownership... -
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford
RRP: €11.89€8.72Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers... -
Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq by Scott A. Snook
RRP: €41.65€32.38On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian... -
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
RRP: €15.46€10.33In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for... -
Status, Power, and Legitimacy by Morris Zelditch
RRP: €52.35€46.22Status, Power, and Legitimacy presents methodological, theoretical, and empirical essays by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr.two of the leading contributors to the Stanford tradition in the study of micropro-cesses. This three-part volume brings... -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
RRP: €15.46€10.82People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual... -
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Identity in Clothing by Diana Crane 9780226117997
RRP: €35.70€34.81It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the... -
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
RRP: €15.46€10.23A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic . . . engaging" - Financial Times"A masterpiece" - The TimesWhat is worth knowing? What does it mean to be... -
Work: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Fineman
RRP: €10.70€7.68The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us,... -
Burma's Spring: Real Lives in Turbulent Times by Rosalind Russell
RRP: €10.70€7.38"Rosalind Russell has written an extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story of Burma in a remarkably human way - essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Burma today." Benedict Rogers, author of Burma: A Nation At the... -
On Suicide by Emile Durkheim
RRP: €15.46€10.82Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if... -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols 9780190469412
RRP: €23.79€16.99People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual... -
Introducing Intersectionality by Mary Romero 9780745663678
RRP: €20.22€18.11How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories such as sexuality, citizenship, and ableism? How does an inclusive analysis of domination and privilege move... -
The Community Development Reader by James DeFilippis
RRP: €85.67€74.32The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and...