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Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity (Deluxe Edition): 2021 by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: £12.00£9.72This anthology (the first in a series) is an attempt to help us perceive our context with an exploration of the premise, coherence and scope of the 'metamodern' sensibility: a structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and imaginative... -
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: £13.99£12.47Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data... -
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... -
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World by Raghuram Rajan
RRP: £12.99£8.48SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against... -
The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang
RRP: £22.00£17.76A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was... -
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives by Jonathan Malesic
RRP: £24.00£18.83Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has... -
Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch 9781509543847
RRP: £18.99£16.87The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply... -
Stata Survival Manual by David Pevalin 9780335223886
RRP: £36.99£35.99Where do I start? How do I know if I'm asking the right questions? How do I analyze the data once I have it? How do I report the results? When will I ever understand the process? If you are new to using the Stata software, and concerned about applying... -
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable by Ian Crofton
RRP: £35.00£24.43INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From 'Aald Rock' to 'Zeenty-teenty', A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends, folklore,... -
The Mission of Folk Souls by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: £25.99£21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482680Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc -
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets by Kimberly Kay Hoang 9780691231259
RRP: £16.99£13.65A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richerIn 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers by Jan Chipchase
RRP: £18.99£12.71Who are your next customers - not just the ones you are serving today but the ones you'll need three, five, ten years from now? How do you figure out what goods and services will attract them in the future? How do you figure this out ahead of your... -
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... -
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £30.00£23.69This 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... -
Social Divisions: Inequality and Diversity in Britain Geoff Payne 9781447355120
RRP: £29.99£23.42Revised, updated and restructured to reflect the latest data and debates, the new edition of this classic textbook is an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Drawing from extensive theoretical work and recent... -
The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion by Jennifer Craik 9780415052627
RRP: £54.99£47.72First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion... -
Alice and the Money Tree by J M Weston Briggs 9781999848507
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999848507Author J M Weston BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint The Money WonderlandPublisher The Money WonderlandDimensions(mm) 220mm * 155mm * 10mm -
Sociology for Nurses Elaine Denny (University of Central England in Birmingham) 9781509505418
RRP: £19.99£18.09Sociology for Nurses has become a leading textbook and an invaluable companion for students wishing to get to grips with how sociology can positively transform professional nursing practice.This thoroughly revised new edition maintains its commitment to... -
Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation by Gillian Rose 9780521578493
RRP: £39.99£33.26In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism withour reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann
RRP: £34.99£28.06Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between... -
Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: £8.99£6.45We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly... -
The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance by Colin Tudge
RRP: £15.00£12.59All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment, with... -
Irishisms: Blather, Blarney, Blessings and everything else we say in Ireland by Ronan Moore
RRP: £11.99£8.43While 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... -
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593083987Author Martin DubermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World by Jose van Dijck
RRP: £29.99£22.37Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through... -
People of the Flower Market: A Year at New Covent Garden Flower Market Simon Lycett (Simon J Lycett Ltd) 9781916091221
RRP: £16.99£11.94This wonderful photographic record of the last year at the site of the New Covent Garden Flower Market, occupied since the 1960s before it moved to its new, more modern premises, captures the essence and heart of what makes a market: its amazing product... -
Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott 9780195320558
RRP: £28.49£17.61For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the... -
Global Sociology by Robin Cohen 9781479800766
£34.99"This new edition is an outstanding update of what I believe to be the best textbook for introducing undergraduates to global sociology. With a rich array of new examples, clear definitions of concepts and crisp theoretical summaries, it offers students... -
Between Philosophy and Social Science: Selected Early Writings by Max Horkheimer 9780262581424
£44.69Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer,... -
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg 9781442645561
RRP: £25.00£21.68If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless... -
AQA A-level Sociology Student Guide 2: Topics in Sociology (Families and households and Beliefs in society) Joan Garrod 9781510472037
£12.69Reinforce understanding of the two most popular options for A-level Paper 2: Topics in Sociology, including Families and Households, and Beliefs in Society.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.00Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
The Angel Of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844083961
RRP: £10.99£6.47'The best book in English about one of the world's most brutal and under-reported conflicts ... fascinating' Christina Lamb, Sunday TimesIn the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into... -
A Critical Introduction to Law Wade Mansell 9781138775015
RRP: £39.99£35.06Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the interests of the few even while presenting itself as neutral. This fully revised and updated fourth edition... -
The Collective Memory Reader by Jeffrey K. Olick 9780195337426
RRP: £56.00£42.44There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and... -
The Secret War For The Falklands: The SAS, MI6, and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost by Nigel West
RRP: £10.99£9.37First published on the 15th anniversary of the Falklands War in 1982, THE SECRET WAR FOR THE FALKLANDS is nothing less than the secret history of the conflict, the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged by an enemy since 1945. In terms of hardware it... -
Doing Visual Ethnography by Sarah Pink
RRP: £40.99£33.56This book is the definitive guide to understanding and doing visual ethnography. Sarah Pink's landmark text provides you with both the critical theoretical foundations and the creative tools and techniques you need to conduct your own visual ethnography... -
Class and Stratification by Rosemary Crompton 9780745638706
RRP: £22.99£20.16Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and stratification, and how the tools used to analyse these divisions can... -
Southern Theory: Social Science And The Global Dynamics Of Knowledge Raewyn Connell 9780745642499
RRP: £17.99£16.04In Southern Theory Raewyn Connell presents the case for a new 'world social science' - one that is inclusive of many voices - by arguing for a more democratic global recognition of social theory from societies outside the dominant European and North... -
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Identity in Clothing by Diana Crane 9780226117997
RRP: £30.00£29.25It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the...