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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: €35.69€29.58Apologies 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: €19.03€17.62Leading 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,... -
The Essential Hirschman by Albert O. Hirschman
RRP: €29.75€23.79The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability... -
Happiness by Tim Lomas
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544207Author Tim LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 9780486287386
RRP: €5.94€4.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486287386Author Booker T. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Psychology and Social Work: Applied Perspectives Gabriela Misca 9780745696317
RRP: €20.22€18.11Successful social work practice is underpinned by knowledge, theories and research findings from a range of related disciplines, key among which is psychology. This timely book offers a grounded and engaging guide to psychology's vital role at the heart... -
COVID-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations J. Michael Ryan 9780367695125
RRP: €45.21€39.72The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the institutional responses,... -
Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms by Victoria D. Alexander
RRP: €42.78€38.16Explains the key concepts, theories, and studies in the sociology of the arts-the fully updated new edition of the classic textbook Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive yet accessible review of sociological approaches to studying the fine, popular,... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions Eve Livingston 9780745341620
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,... -
Irishisms: Blather, Blarney, Blessings and everything else we say in Ireland by Ronan Moore
RRP: €14.27€10.03While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak. Irishisms examines... -
Liberalism, Community and Culture by Will Kymlicka 9780198278719
RRP: €84.49€67.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs
RRP: €33.32€32.59How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This... -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: €15.46€10.82_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn... -
Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: Russian Speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan by Alina Jašina-Schäfer 9781793631404
RRP: €35.70€33.34Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: €47.59€41.72In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The... -
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste by Herbert J. Gans 9780465026098
€25.35Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the... -
Natural Law, Or Don't Put A Rubber On Your Willy And Other Writings From A Natural Outlaw by Robert Anton Wilson 9781952746109
RRP: €22.60€17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952746109Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams)... -
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: €35.70€28.19This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions... -
Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
RRP: €17.84€13.23A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place... -
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... -
The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law: The Present, Past and Future of the Origin Link Andrea Zappalaglio 9780367701222
RRP: €45.21€39.72Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market, and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book... -
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9780520242012
RRP: €29.75€23.31Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building... -
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon
RRP: €23.79€20.87"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny."... -
Thinking About Fostering? by Henrietta Bond 9781910039540
RRP: €11.84€8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039540Author Henrietta BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAF -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
€21.16Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama Simon Banks 9781803131955
RRP: €47.60€34.26Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260... -
The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis by Richard R Nelson
RRP: €19.64€16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRichard R. Nelson is a professor of economics and leading figure in the field of evolutionary economics.Book InformationISBN 9780393091731Author Richard R... -
The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan
RRP: €17.84€16.23Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the... -
Room for the River: The Foyle River Catchment Landscape: Connecting People, Place and Nature by Liam Campbell 9781916501652
RRP: €23.80€19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916501652Author Liam CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Merdog BooksPublisher Merdog Books -
Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters by Philip Oltermann
RRP: €15.46€10.19In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.Inspired by his own experience of both... -
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance 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... -
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson 9780300063974
RRP: €23.80€23.09J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: €15.46€10.82'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as... -
Tattoo Culture: Theory and Contemporary Contexts by Lee Barron 9781783488278
RRP: €51.17€47.17Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo... -
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals Emile Durkheim 9781138601895
RRP: €20.22€18.59Emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and... -
Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril by Stefan Berger 9780367757069
RRP: €45.21€39.72This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. ... -
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
RRP: €26.18€18.59Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people... -
The Modern Utopian: Alternative Communities Then and Now by Richard Fairfield 9781934170151
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170151Author Richard FairfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process MediaWeight(grams) 471g -
Thought as a System: Second edition by Chris Jenks
RRP: €45.21€39.72First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415110303Author Chris JenksFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g -
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes
RRP: €11.89€9.72There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centres, and in union...