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Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz 9780306811913
€18.22Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's death, acclaimed music writer David Ritz has created a full-scale portrait of the brilliant but tormented artist. With a cast of characters that includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, and... -
Ironic Life by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509505739
RRP: €19.03€17.15"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has... -
The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450129
RRP: €11.89€8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450129Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley 9781846941764
RRP: €11.89€10.22"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the... -
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
RRP: €29.74€25.26In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal... -
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Anthony Musson 9780719038020
RRP: €23.79€20.75This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array... -
Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: €17.84€13.03Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists -- professionals who study sexual behaviour -- pretty difficult. ... -
Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries by Frank Furedi
RRP: €30.93€26.93Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely... -
Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé 9780367600778
RRP: €47.59€40.72Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and... -
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: €29.75€26.05The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at... -
How Population Change Will Transform Our World by Sarah Harper 9780198783992
RRP: €13.08€9.25Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: €17.84€13.03Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' ... -
The Personals by Brian O'Connell
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope. Some people do Sudoku,... -
The Ecology Of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
RRP: €23.74€16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859260Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 491Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft by David Stark 9780231214018
RRP: €35.70€27.16Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the... -
Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning by Sharon Hanson
RRP: €52.35€45.74Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. The 5th edition of Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning draws on a range of areas of law to... -
Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
€30.00Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 Updated specifically to match the SQA Higher syllabus for examination from 2019 onwards, this textbook covers the two issues that students have the... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: €29.75€20.97'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political... -
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz 9781476702728
RRP: €11.89€7.63As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of... -
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
RRP: €14.27€11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195583Author Malidoma Patrice SomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley Cohen 9780745623924
RRP: €22.60€20.08Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their... -
10 Skills for Effective Business Communication: Practical Strategies from the World's Greatest Leaders by Jessica Higgins, Jd
RRP: €17.84€11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641520980Author Jessica HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Tycho PressPublisher Tycho PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words by Michael Gardiner
RRP: €73.78€64.27Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays'... -
Against Creativity by Oli Mould
RRP: €11.89€7.90From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated as agile,... -
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
RRP: €11.89€8.71A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life? 'A firecracker of a novel' Madeline Miller 'Intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical' Sunday Times 'About everything a book should be... -
Higher Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
€30.00Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019A course textbook covering the most recent political developments and fully updated to take on board the latest SQA course assessment changes. Written... -
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English Country House by Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: €15.46€14.02This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and... -
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills 9780195133547
RRP: €17.84€13.03First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs... -
People & Permaculture Design: Caring & Designing for Ourselves, Each Other & The Planet by Looby Macnamara 9781856230872
RRP: €24.99€16.49This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people - to restore personal, social and planetary well-being. People & Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mainly about land-based systems to... -
Wild Therapy (second edition): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds by Nick Totton
RRP: €24.98€23.43In today's Western, industrialised society, 'wild' has come to mean dangerous, savage, crazy, out of control. This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Totton argues that embracing unpredictability and... -
Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben 9780816622351
RRP: €22.60€19.47Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive a human... -
Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss by Stephen Harrod Buhner
RRP: €23.79€15.89*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press) News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying... -
Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745609300
RRP: €21.41€19.09Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly... -
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women by Susan Faludi
RRP: €17.84€13.03What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality.A probing, enlivened and fiercely well-informed investigation... -
Higher Modern Studies: International Issues: Second Edition by Frank Cooney
€30.48Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 Updated specifically to match the SQA Higher Modern Studies syllabus for examination from 2019 onwards.International Issues covers three of the world... -
Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being and Liberation by Crystal M. Fleming
RRP: €44.02€38.71Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being, and Liberation brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on mind-body interventions, group-based identities, and social justice. Marshalling both empirical data and theoretical... -
Informality: Social Theory and Contemporary Practice by Barbara Misztal
RRP: €57.11€49.75For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal bureaucracy and finance. As we enter the new millennium, however, it becomes increasingly... -
Material Girls: Women, Men and Work by Lindsey German 9781905192175
RRP: €15.46€10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192175Author Lindsey GermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 290g -
Food and Animal Welfare by Professor Henry Buller
€41.50Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues 'from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the... -
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives by Hannah Critchlow
RRP: €26.18€17.80'A lively examination of communal endeavour... important and correct' - Steven Poole, The GuardianAt a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them.So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish and...