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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler 9780804728126
RRP: £23.99£20.09As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is... -
The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father Massimo Recalcati 9781509531721
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation... -
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter by Alex Pentland
RRP: £18.00£10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126331Author Alex PentlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm... -
What is the Future? John Urry (University of Lancaster) 9780745696546
RRP: £17.99£16.04Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the... -
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research by Iddo Tavory
RRP: £18.00£15.40In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that... -
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques by Davide Sivolella 9783030308803
RRP: £27.99£25.65This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social... -
Make it So: Leadership for the Next Generation by Wess Roberts 9780671520984
£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671520984Author Wess RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Rethinking Sexuality by Diane Richardson 9780761967095
RRP: £63.00£54.86This thoughtful and accessible book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledge and politics. These are explored in chapters on the meaning of heterosexuality, sexual citizenship and... -
Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Art Practice by Janwillem Schrofer
RRP: £19.90£16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095404Author Janwillem SchroferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 20mm -
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal
RRP: £23.99£21.24"Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described-or indeed, better explained..... -
Practical Audio Electronics by Kevin Robinson 9780367359850
RRP: £33.99£30.40Practical Audio Electronics is a comprehensive introduction to basic audio electronics and the fundamentals of sound circuit building, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake projects from scratch.Imparting a thorough... -
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets by Donald MacKenzie 9780691217789
RRP: £20.00£15.89A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: £20.00£14.29CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York TimesA riveting insider... -
The Battered Woman by Lenore E Walker 9780060907426
RRP: £14.00£10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060907426Author Lenore E WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: £11.99£8.00From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary--whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: £14.95£12.53The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: £11.99£9.08Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists... -
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny
RRP: £19.99£17.54On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: £12.99£11.94The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything... -
The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Addiction Treatment by Sheila P. Vakharia 9781032294735
RRP: £19.99£17.23This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind.Harm reduction is an approach to helping people who engage in... -
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316017930
RRP: £16.99£11.67In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Regarded by many as the most gifted and influential author and journalist in... -
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It by Rory Hearne 9780008529611
RRP: £9.99£6.64The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their... -
Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences by Justin Grimmer 9780691207551
RRP: £38.00£30.41A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This... -
Unlocking EU Law by Tony Storey 9781032111322
RRP: £37.99£35.32European Union Law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an... -
Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries by Heidrun Friese 9781571815071
RRP: £27.95£22.58"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how... -
Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods by Martin Brett Davies
£30.26This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports... -
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't by Frank Dobbin
RRP: £24.95£20.29"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... -
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice Nasar Meer (The University of Edinburgh) 9781447363026
RRP: £14.99£12.13What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial justice in Britain has long been linked to a 'cruel optimism' which normalises social and political... -
Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable by Beverley Skeggs 9780761955122
RRP: £51.00£41.34Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of... -
Poverty, Inequality and Social Work: The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision Ian Cummins (University of Salford) 9781447334828
RRP: £27.99£21.57This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk... -
The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £19.99£17.54In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty by Mimi Matthews
RRP: £14.99£10.95What did a Victorian lady wear for a walk in the park? How did she style her hair for an evening at the theatre? And what products might she have used to soothe a sunburn or treat an unsightly blemish? Mimi Matthews answers these questions and more as... -
Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously Paddy Hillyard 9780745319032
RRP: £29.99£23.02Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £17.99£16.44In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on... -
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'shaun L Harrison
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175979Author Da'Shaun L. HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain by Tony Jefferson
RRP: £28.99£25.09Praise for the first edition:'No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.' - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for... -
On The Track Of Unknown Animals by Heuvelmans
RRP: £46.99£41.97First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des betes ignorees (1955), appeared in French. With this book, the great adventure of 'Cryptozoology', the science of hidden animals, began.About... -
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies by Nick Watson 9781032376189
RRP: £43.99£38.44This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today... -
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No by Henry Mayhew 9781605207339
RRP: £29.99£24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207339Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory Alice Crary (The New School, New York, NY) 9781509549689
RRP: £15.99£14.81Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction,...