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Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children by Sarah Grogan
RRP: €54.73€47.75Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.The new edition... -
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 9781517901738
RRP: €26.17€22.36Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda... -
Sport, Technology and the Body: The Nature of Performance by Tara Magdalinski
RRP: €53.54€46.74What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life by Robert Jervis
RRP: €57.12€45.71Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his... -
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature by Durre Shahwar 9781912489749
RRP: €13.08€8.33"The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed." Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK... -
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend
RRP: €17.84€11.66'Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.'-Library Journal 'If you enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life . . . I highly recommend this book. . . . In the vein of Louis... -
Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy by Christy Kulz
RRP: €29.75€22.37Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original... -
Student Support Materials for Sociology - AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods by Steve Chapman
RRP: €8.32€7.97Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods contains the key information for these A2 Unit 4 topics, with examiners' notes and essential notes to deliver exam success. An exam section contains two sample papers, with answers at A and C grades and detailed... -
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
RRP: €15.46€10.82Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.About the... -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: €17.84€11.66'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail... -
Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell 9780465045891
RRP: €27.36€19.37Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a... -
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action by Kevin Guyan
RRP: €23.79€20.96Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: €16.65€14.58Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data... -
The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Young
RRP: €52.35€45.74Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy." Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first... -
Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions by John Gray
RRP: €11.89€7.97By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the future of our species on this planet, the folly of our... -
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Professor W. Andy Knight
RRP: €33.31€29.69As media coverage of terrorism and terroristic acts has increased so too has the discussion about the identities, motives, and gender of the perpetrators. Over the past fifteen years, there have been over 150 reported suicide bombings committed by women... -
How Woke Won: And how we can fight back by Joanna Williams 9781739841324
RRP: €15.46€13.96Politics, academia & corporations now bow to the new orthodoxies around gender, race & identity. How Woke Won explores woke's intellectual roots and how, what poses as radical-left, is embraced by the privileged. In this powerful critique Joanna... -
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour
RRP: €35.69€30.87Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden... -
Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze by Svend Brinkmann 9781509514267
RRP: €17.84€11.66The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting - constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression... -
The Socially Constructed Organization by David Campbell
RRP: €44.02€38.71This new work looks at the dynamics of organisations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organisation as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organisation... -
Spaces of Hope by David Harvey
RRP: €36.89€33.97As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrated within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste: three-quarters of the world's population had no control of its destiny and no claim... -
Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim
€45.86Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us... -
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745639871
RRP: €11.89€10.65The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough... -
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles Murray
RRP: €35.70€23.56The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:- Gender is a social construct.-... -
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't by Frank Dobbin
RRP: €29.69€23.66"Too many companies don't know how to walk the walk of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Getting to Diversity shows them how."-Lori George Billingsley, former Global Chief DEI Officer, Coca-Cola CompanyIn an authoritative, data-driven account, two of the... -
Farewell to Growth by Serge Latouche 9780745646176
RRP: €19.03€17.15Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are... -
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Shourideh C. Molavi 9780745344577
RRP: €27.36€18.05The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts and surveillance technologies. With each Israeli incursion, a military no-go area, or a 'buffer zone', is established along Gaza's 'borders', extending deep... -
What is Academic Freedom?: A Century of Debate, 1915 - Present by Daniel Gordon
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university... -
An Introduction to Sociology by Ken Browne 9781509528004
RRP: €26.17€24.20This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology Workbook Paper 2: The sociology of crime and deviance and social stratification by David Bown
€11.21Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with this skills-focused, topic-specific workbook.- Prepare students to meet the demands of Paper 2 of... -
Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation by Faye V Harrison 9780913167830
RRP: €21.42€16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913167830Author Faye V HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint American Anthropological AssociationPublisher American Anthropological... -
Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art by Olav Velthuis
RRP: €33.32€27.16How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including... -
Colombia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Cathey 9781857338867
RRP: €11.89€8.71Culture 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... -
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
RRP: €15.46€11.10Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in... -
Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm by Terry Williams
RRP: €33.32€25.42"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last... -
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide by Boaventura de Sousa Santos 9781612055459
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social... -
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593159477Author Alvin TofflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming by Steven L Kent
RRP: €24.99€19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984825438Author Steven L. KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt
RRP: €22.60€11.36Apologies 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...