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The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime by Letizia Paoli 9780190947323
€49.48While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime... -
Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective by Luke Billingham
RRP: €34.50€26.53For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm. Aimed at academics, youth workers... -
Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
RRP: €47.59€41.72Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and 'others', including dyslexics,... -
Zizek: A Critical Introduction by Sarah Kay 9780745622088
€19.25Zizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European... -
Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara 9781398514874
RRP: €11.89€7.63'Impressive' - Bernardine Evaristo 'Read this and learn - this is what a force for good looks like' - Jess Phillips MP'One of the best books I read this year [...] It's truly essential reading for those who want to push forward for a more equal world' -... -
Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control by Michelle L. Inderbitzin 9781544308081
RRP: €122.57€114.37Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society. Derived from the same author team's successful text/reader version, this concise and student-friendly resource uses sociological... -
The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture by Pekka Sulkunen
RRP: €180.88€132.65How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles? This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of... -
Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences by Justin Grimmer 9780691207551
RRP: €45.22€35.51A 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... -
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 9781616897062
RRP: €26.17€18.17"As visually arresting as it is informative."-The Boston Globe "Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America."-Fast Company's Co.Design W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete... -
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen 9780674599222
RRP: €36.83€28.48Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of... -
Critical Path by R.Buckminster Fuller 9780312174910
€20.25Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication over 20 years ago. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current... -
Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines For Girls Growing Up In England, 1920-1950 by Penny Tinkler 9780748402854
RRP: €160.65€139.56This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the role of magazines in the lives of contemporary girls. In addressing this theme, the book explores... -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
RRP: €9.51€6.89'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so... -
Decolonizing Sociology – An Introduction by A Meghji
RRP: €19.03€17.15Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It... -
Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy: The Short-Arse Years: Jason Byrne's Memoir by Jason Byrne
€7.10 - €15.89'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.' ... -
Person-Centred Therapy in Focus by Paul Wilkins
RRP: €49.97€43.93Person-Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled against one of the most widespread forms of therapeutic practice. Characterized by its critics as theoretically `light', culturally biased and limited in... -
How Change Happens by Duncan Green
RRP: €22.60€16.61Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee... -
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing by Danny Dorling
RRP: €15.46€13.64A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 1: Education with Methods by Hollie Wyllie
€9.94Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015... -
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter by Alex Pentland
RRP: €21.42€12.90Apologies 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... -
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass
RRP: €22.62€17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482670Author Ira GlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Britain in Fragments: Why Things are Falling Apart by Satnam Virdee
RRP: €23.79€17.28Britain today is falling apart. One of the most dominant states in world history finds itself confronted with growing demands for nationalist secessionism. Brexit has already secured its break from the European Union while looming Scottish independence... -
The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship by Paula Caplan
RRP: €52.35€45.74In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don'tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers. Fully revised, updated with a new introduction, this... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: €22.60€17.60In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Frank Furedi
RRP: €15.46€11.35Frank Furedi returns to the theme of Fear in our society and culture. In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he... -
Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism by Alison Phipps
RRP: €10.70€7.79The Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour,... -
A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad
€4.03 - €8.81A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULIn January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
RRP: €20.22€13.41*A Blackwell's Book of the Year* *A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* *A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022* *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole... -
Transgression by Chris Jenks 9780415257589
RRP: €44.02€38.71Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast... -
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited by Tom Shakespeare 9780415527613
RRP: €47.59€41.72Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs... -
Culture of Fear by Frank Furedi 9780826493958
€32.14Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 2: Families and Households by Jonathan Blundell
€9.94Exam Board: AQALevel: A-LevelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015 AQA... -
The Social Superpower: The Big Truth about Little Lies by Kathleen Wyatt 9781785907050
RRP: €22.60€16.07"There are a few secrets," he tells me. "A few discoveries that I've never published. Some of the most powerful ones. I wouldn't betray them under torture." In a time of deep fakes, alternative truths and leaked secrets, it would be easy to think that... -
The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution - And How We Can Fight Back by Gary Fuller 9781911545514
RRP: €10.70€7.45The air pollution that we breathe every day is largely invisible - but it is killing us. How did it get this bad, and how can we stop it? Far from a modern-day problem, scientists were aware of the impact of air pollution as far back as the seventeenth... -
AQA A-level Sociology Student Guide 3: Crime and deviance with theory and methods by Dave O'Leary
€15.10Reinforce understanding of the content examined in A-level Paper 3: Crime and deviance with Theory and methods.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will... -
Health Humanities Reader by Mark Vonnegut 9780813562469
RRP: €82.11€70.70Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the... -
The Politics of Social Democracy: Issues, Dilemmas and Futures for the Centre-Left by Rob Manwaring 9780367135447
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book... -
The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Two by Jane Duffus 9781910089873
RRP: €15.47€11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089873Author Jane DuffusFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books -
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg 9780691154510
RRP: €26.18€20.69It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous... -
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
RRP: €13.08€8.81India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range...