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The Politics of Social Democracy: Issues, Dilemmas and Futures for the Centre-Left by Rob Manwaring 9780367135447
RRP: £36.99£32.53This 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: £13.00£9.50Apologies 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: £22.00£17.39It 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: £10.99£7.40India 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... -
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens 9780745612393
RRP: £17.99£16.04The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these... -
Poverty, Inequality and Social Work: The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision by Ian Cummins 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 Student's Companion to Social Policy by Pete Alcock
RRP: £36.95£32.51The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics by Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
Research Methods: The Basics by Nicholas Walliman
RRP: £18.99£16.87Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This third edition provides an expanded and fully updated resource suitable for students and practitioners in a... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam
RRP: £36.99£31.39Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global... -
Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Zakia Salime 9780816651344
RRP: £21.99£18.79There are two major women's movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari'a as the platform for building a culture of women's rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations' framework to amend shari'a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how... -
Older, Wiser, Sexier (Men) by Bev Williams
RRP: £6.99£5.71'At your age, people expect you to be calm, dignified and sober... Disappoint them.'Older, Wiser, Sexier brings together the best of Bev Williams' cheeky but charming cartoons to create the perfect gift for that person in your life who may be getting on... -
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg
RRP: £26.99£22.80Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and... -
Grade Booster for CfE SQA Exam Revision - Higher Modern Studies Grade Booster for SQA Exam Revision: Maximise Marks and Minimise Mistakes to Achieve Your Best Possible Mark by Pamela Farr
RRP: £11.99£11.66Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015 This book is the essential guide to exam skills. It includes detailed advice on how to approach and answer the different types of question you will find... -
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment by Aeron Davis 9781526127280
RRP: £9.99£7.23Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades. The great transformations of the 1980s onwards have not... -
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking by Simon Weaver
RRP: £43.99£38.44In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and... -
Critical Chain: A Business Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
RRP: £32.99£29.16This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like... -
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class – a Memo by B Latour
RRP: £9.99£6.80Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism... -
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places by Chris Philo 9780415198479
RRP: £49.99£43.50Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: £24.00£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241431Author Karen CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda
£26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475315Author Julien BendaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: £35.00£27.61Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
The NHS at 70: A Living History by Ellen Welch
RRP: £12.99£9.09At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a person's ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principals... -
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds by Shane O'Mara 9781847926487
RRP: £22.00£14.31'Enjoyable' New Scientist'Delightfully well-written, accessible, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times'Thoughtful' Irish IndependentFrom neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and... -
A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: £12.99£10.09In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
Researching Business and Management by Harvey Maylor
£70.59This core textbook combines a highly engaging approach with academic rigour to guide students through understanding and using research methods. Now in its second edition, this text has been fully updated and revised throughout. With a focus that is fresh... -
Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001): The Church from Carlyle to Derrida by John Schad
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark,... -
Tastes of Paradise # by W Schivelbusch
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744382Author Wolfgang SchivelbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
Understanding theories and concepts in social policy by Ruth Lister 9781861347930
RRP: £24.99£19.79A central theme of this lively and accessible text is that theory helps us to understand policy, politics and practice. The book combines an in-depth exploration of selected theoretical perspectives and concepts with the student-friendly format of the... -
Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer
RRP: £24.00£23.03In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically... -
Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Pe rsonal Relationships by Elliott 9781509549818
RRP: £15.99£14.41Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us... -
Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction by John G. Clement 9780124730519
RRP: £89.00£81.63This unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal remains--using computer-graphic and computational means. Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction is designed as a... -
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance by Brandon Labelle
RRP: £29.00£22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685950Author Brandon LabelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility by Jeffrey K. Olick
RRP: £45.99£40.13In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the... -
Another Mother: Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation by Shanta Everington
RRP: £36.99£32.53Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them.Exploring... -
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £12.99£8.56Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the... -
AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory by Harrison White
£8.35Exam 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... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: £20.99£14.59In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: £8.99£7.18Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated translation of the original filmscript by Su Xiaokang...