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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 by Michael Mann
RRP: €41.64€33.80Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century... -
The Time of Money by Lisa Adkins
RRP: €28.55€24.29Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a... -
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton 9780811205702
RRP: €17.84€15.51"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground-I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas... -
We're Falling Through Space: Doctor Who and Celebrating the Mundane by J. David Reed 9781912489763
RRP: €8.93€5.88It's one of modern history's most beloved sci-fi creations and while the Doctor is revered world-round, what about their companions, friends and acquaintances along the way? For all the time travel and extravagant alien worlds, Doctor Who is often at its... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: €16.96€13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Community by Peter Block
RRP: €28.56€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095568Author Peter BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Finland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Elena Barrett 9781787029088
RRP: €11.89€11.60Don't just see the sights get to know the people. The people of this land of white summer nights and pristine lakes are famous for their sisu, a form of enterprising stoicism. They are survivors: if you were stranded on a desert island, your ideal... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: €19.03€15.01How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: €27.36€21.35Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by Paula Prober 9780692713105
RRP: €21.36€18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692713105Author Sarah J WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ghf PressPublisher Ghf PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards by Alka Vaid Menon 9780520386723
RRP: €29.75€22.82Cosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty... -
The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive: Adventures with the world's oldest off-road cycling club by Mark Hudson 9780995488656
RRP: €38.08€31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488656Author Mark HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 950g -
How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation by Tom Clark 9780198811060
RRP: €38.07€36.09How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real social science undergraduates from a range of... -
The Uncontrollability of the World by Rosa 9781509543168
RRP: €19.03€17.15The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world... -
Anthropology: A Beginner's Guide by Joy Hendry
RRP: €11.89€7.63In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding... -
Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies by Andrew McWilliam 9781032400846
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring... -
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle
RRP: €10.70€7.97Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins... -
Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life by Adam Isaiah Green 9780226084992
RRP: €30.94€29.57The rise of urbanization and mass communication and the decoupling of sexuality from reproduction and moral regulation have contributed to the late modern expansion of specialized erotic worlds catering to a variety of sexual tastes. Organized by... -
Where Are We Now: The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben 9781912475353
RRP: €19.03€16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475353Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ERISPublisher ERISDimensions(mm) 220mm * 138mm * 11mm -
The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, a Greater Task by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
RRP: €20.22€17.26Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for... -
Cultural History After Foucault by John Neubauer
RRP: €51.16€44.73Both as historian and maker of culture, Foucault infused numerous disciplines of study with a new conceptual vocabulary and an agenda for future research. His ideas have called central assumptions in Western culture into question and altered the ways in... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: €35.70€31.93In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major... -
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice by Redi Koobak 9780367726607
RRP: €47.59€41.72Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the... -
The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them by Sheena Iyengar
RRP: €13.08€8.81Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or... -
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
RRP: €16.65€14.58When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: €23.80€17.01In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor... -
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Professor of History Michael Moss
RRP: €22.61€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982190Author Michael MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis by Eve Ng 9783030973766
RRP: €41.64€37.83"Cancel culture" has become one of the most charged concepts in contemporary culture and politics, but mainstream critiques from both the left and the right provide only snapshots of responses to the phenomenon. Takinga media and cultural studies... -
Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History by Rozina Visram
RRP: €29.74€21.41This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes,... -
Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Theory and Practice by Joan Granucci Lesser
RRP: €158.66€142.34This comprehensive text integrates multiple dimensions of the human experience in a reader-friendly style and provides the interface between developmental theory and practice. Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 1/e, introduces and incorporates... -
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
RRP: €13.08€9.25Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair and what it tells us about ourselves and society. When it's not attached... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions by Eve Livingston
RRP: €11.89€8.09With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway? The government constantly attacks unions,... -
Consumer Culture and Modernity by Don Slater 9780745603049
RRP: €21.41€19.09This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. ... -
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Oscar J. Martinez
RRP: €13.08€10.64NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial TimesOne day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken... -
The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain Since 1800 by Humayun Ansari
RRP: €23.79€21.23There has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historical treatment of the phenomenon. This book aims to address this issue. The Infidel Within remains one of the... -
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears 9780691168654
RRP: €29.75€23.30A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera,... -
The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process by Patricia H. Thornton
RRP: €52.35€49.16How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this... -
Applied Sociology for Social Work by Ewan Ingleby 9781473984400
RRP: €44.02€36.16Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met. This book... -
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide by Lynsey Hanley
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal' Hilary MantelLynsey Hanley grew up part of the 'respectable working class'. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides,... -
Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction by Davide Nicolini
RRP: €52.35€49.16What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization? Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing...