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Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion Law by Sally Sheldon 9780745311678
RRP: £27.99£21.57Abortion is now recognised as primarily a medical issue, rather than one of political and social importance; its regulation determined by the authority of doctors and other medical professionals. In the first comprehensive historical study of the... -
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£17.32This 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... -
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. -
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life by Robert Jervis
RRP: £50.00£44.75Based 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... -
Memoirs of a Wonky-Eyed Man: The Dad-Knows-Best Years by Jason Byrne 9780717194483
RRP: £21.99£15.61Jason Byrne is 17. With his leaving cert under his belt but no idea what to do next, who better to ask for advice than his dad, Paddy? There's a (very) short stint studying accountancy (he was asked to leave); a FAS course with juvenile offenders to... -
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,... -
Make it So: Leadership for the Next Generation by Wess Roberts 9780671520984
£11.29Apologies 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 *... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 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... -
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton 9780811205702
RRP: £14.99£13.03"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... -
Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World by Ilya Yablokov 9781509522668
RRP: £17.99£16.04Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War - allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a... -
Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women by Karen A. Duncan
£22.03The traumatic affects of childhood sexual abuse can remain and recur throughout life for women who have not healed emotionally. This book by a family therapist shares stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any... -
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 9780486287386
RRP: £4.99£3.46Apologies 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)... -
Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art by Olav Velthuis
RRP: £30.00£23.29How 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... -
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals Emile Durkheim 9781138601895
RRP: £16.99£15.62Emile 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... -
COVID-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations J. Michael Ryan 9780367695125
RRP: £37.99£33.38The 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,... -
The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities by Ellen Helsper
RRP: £36.99£30.39With the increased digitisation of society comes an increased concern about who is left behind. From societal causes to the impact of everyday actions, The Digital Disconnect explores the relationship between digital and social inequalities, and the... -
Liberalism, Community and Culture by Will Kymlicka 9780198278719
RRP: £71.00£57.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ '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: £30.00£28.02Everyday 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 Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols 9780190469412
RRP: £20.99£14.94People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual... -
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste by Herbert J. Gans 9780465026098
£21.30Is 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: £18.99£14.44Apologies 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)... -
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... -
A Level Media Studies: The Essential Introduction Pete Bennett 9781138285897
RRP: £35.99£32.09A Level Media Studies is a comprehensive guide to the subject content of AS and A Level Media Studies, across all examining boards. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of both students and teachers with an accessible writing style, helpful... -
Research Methods: The Key Concepts by Michael Hammond 9780367178741
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences. It covers theories of knowledge, methodologies and methods. Each entry offers a definition of a concept, shows how... -
The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge by Stephanie Bunn
RRP: £27.99£27.33This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and... -
Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
RRP: £14.99£11.12A 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... -
The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law: The Present, Past and Future of the Origin Link Andrea Zappalaglio 9780367701222
RRP: £37.99£33.38Linking 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... -
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... -
Thinking About Fostering? by Henrietta Bond 9781910039540
RRP: £9.95£6.78Apologies 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 -
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study-adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective-to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
£17.78Henri 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: £40.00£28.79Since 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... -
Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire by Dr. Marlene Laruelle
RRP: £26.50£23.29Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a... -
The Rise of the Network Society Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, USA) 9781405196864
RRP: £28.95£25.47This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the... -
The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis by Richard R Nelson
RRP: £16.50£13.80Apologies 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: £14.99£13.64Nationalism 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: £20.00£16.43Apologies 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: £12.99£8.56In 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...