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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols 9780190469412
RRP: £19.99£14.28People 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: £16.99£15.22How 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: £71.99£62.45The 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... -
The Sociology of Housework by Ann Oakley 9781447349426
RRP: £28.99£22.29In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women's work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
RRP: £25.00£21.58The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely... -
Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Time Bomb by Danny Dorling 9781447349075
RRP: £12.99£10.15Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian,... -
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia Enloe 9780520279995
£26.15In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events - Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns - to reveal the crucial role... -
The Breaks by Julietta Singh 9781914198007
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198007Author Julietta SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins
RRP: £25.00£19.18The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins's claim that the expansion of American education... -
Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine by Wendy Cadge
RRP: £25.00£23.94While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is... -
Foucault, Health and Medicine by Robin Bunton
RRP: £52.99£46.03The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution... -
A Plague on All Our Sports: When Covid and Sport Collided by Bill Ribbans 9781801506687
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Plague on All Our Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided, examining the impact of the pandemic through a unique lens. The book's two authors have each spent many years in sport: Mark Saggers as a radio and TV sports... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? by Lee Elliot Major
RRP: £11.99£9.70Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020 The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times In this vital new... -
Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present by Gary Browning 9780761959267
RRP: £52.00£42.70Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the... -
Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms by Massimo Airoldi
RRP: £15.99£14.81We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by... -
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews-David
RRP: £23.99£18.78From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly... -
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Psychotherapists by Glyn Hudson-Allez
RRP: £42.95£37.57This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers physiological information about genitalia, variations on... -
Crystallizing Public Opinion (Original Classic) by Edward Bernays 9781722502805
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722502805Author Edward BernaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media -
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'... -
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin 9780745664804
RRP: £19.99£17.69Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed... -
Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745626352
RRP: £15.99£14.41'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of... -
The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £10.99£7.32One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers.In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir,... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman 9781447336068
RRP: £19.99£15.76Politicians 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... -
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface by Orlando Patterson
RRP: £20.95£17.17Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science AssociationIn a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the... -
The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices by Vincent Dubois 9781138306523
RRP: £47.99£41.81Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration,... -
Cultures of Masculinity by Tim Edwards
RRP: £45.99£40.13Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues which surround and inform our understanding of masculinity, this book explores the interface between traditional sociological approaches and the work covered by more post-structural,... -
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by John R. Weeks 9780226878126
RRP: £26.00£24.85When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills 9780801484636
RRP: £24.99£21.23A very important book.... The Racial Contract has the potential to radically challenge many of us to reevaluate how we think about social contract theory. As well, to take the arguments that Mills makes is to be prepared to rethink about the concept of... -
Get Together: How to Build a Community With Your People by Bailey Richardson 9781732265196
RRP: £16.99£12.07A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL. Although communities feel magical, they don't come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew,... -
Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology by Tom R. Tyler
RRP: £22.95£20.69Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid... -
Life Support: The state of the NHS in an age of pandemics: 2022 by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: £20.00£14.56How good is the NHS, really? That is the question this book seeks to answer, as the health service emerges from the gravest crisis in its history with more money - but greater challenges - than ever before. During the pandemic, voters made... -
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and Our Money by Laura Clancy 9781526158758
RRP: £15.99£11.61In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.Running the Family Firm explores the... -
Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Svelch
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047753Author Jaroslav SvelchFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Black is the Journey, Africana the Name by Maboula Soumahoro 9781509548330
RRP: £12.99£11.94In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces... -
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
RRP: £32.00£18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793657Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz
RRP: £21.00£17.76Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them?... -
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
RRP: £12.95£10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529936Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: £25.00£18.62The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing music, theatre, the visual arts, fashion and much more... -
The World of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £16.99£15.22'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' -...