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Britain in Fragments: Why Things are Falling Apart by Satnam Virdee
RRP: £19.99£14.52Britain 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... -
Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O. Jackson 9780691148205
RRP: £45.00£35.72Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact... -
The Person-Centred Approach to Therapeutic Change by Michael McMillan
RRP: £44.99£36.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: £20.00£17.62A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or... -
Foucault, Health and Medicine by Robin Bunton
RRP: £52.99£46.03The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution... -
The Transformation Journey by Cornelia Elbrecht 9783937845036
RRP: £34.90£31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783937845036Author Cornelia ElbrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Johanna Nordlander VerlagPublisher Johanna Nordlander VerlagWeight(grams)... -
In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days by Kevin C. Kearns
RRP: £23.99£16.94For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders,... -
Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues by Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield, CBE
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A deeply humane, learned and personal reflection on Jewish identity' - Rowan Williams 'This inspiring book has made me a better Jew, one who understands more, who knows more' - Daniel Finkelstein 'This remarkable book takes us on a journey:... -
Refugees: A Very Short Introduction by Gil Loescher
RRP: £8.99£6.45Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even... -
Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior by Martin Daly
RRP: £43.99£38.44The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is... -
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo by Saskia Sassen 9780691070636
RRP: £35.00£28.14This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama by Simon Banks 9781803131931
RRP: £30.00£21.35Since 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... -
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis Ed Atkins (University of Bristol) 9781529220964
RRP: £26.99£20.84To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if... -
The Economic Sociology of Development by A Schrank 9781509505265
RRP: £15.99£14.41Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so, it places various approaches to the definition, measurement, and... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
RRP: £34.95£28.59Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the... -
In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Helga Nowotny (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich) 9781509548811
RRP: £20.00£13.75One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience... -
Death in the Modern World by Tony Walter 9781526402943
RRP: £35.99£29.51Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries... -
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman 9780691248882
RRP: £20.00£15.89The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of... -
Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide by Gary Goertz
RRP: £50.00£39.12Concepts lie at the core of social science theory and methodology. They provide substance to theories; they form the basis of measurement; they influence the selection of cases. Social Science Concepts: A Users Guide explores alternative means of concept... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: £26.99£22.80Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction. by Herbert H. Blumberg 9780275927622
£65.53Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions. It is pershaps the most comprehensive theory available today... -
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant 9781399720205
RRP: £16.99£13.42*WINNER of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth'No book... -
The Parisian Field Guide to Men's Style Ines de la Fressange 9782080203427
RRP: £9.98£7.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203427Author Ines de la FressangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 710g -
Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure by Lynne Segal 9781781687567
RRP: £24.99£17.76Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five... -
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited by Tom Shakespeare 9780415527613
RRP: £41.99£36.75Over 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... -
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 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... -
World Risk Society Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: £17.99£16.04This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction by Paul Farmer 9780520271999
£35.47Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed... -
Cultural Emergence: A Toolkit for Transforming Ourselves & the World by Looby Macnamara
RRP: £22.00£14.45The challenging times we live in show us that there is no going back to 'normal' life, but how do we step forward? Looby Macnamara, international thought leader and teacher, introduces 'Cultural Emergence', a framework and toolkit that enables us to... -
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson 9780300063974
RRP: £20.00£19.40J.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... -
Consumer Culture and Modernity Don Slater 9780745603049
RRP: £17.99£16.04This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. ... -
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... -
The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala
RRP: £14.99£10.95For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas - that consenting adults have the freedom to do... -
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
RRP: £42.00£33.44An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how... -
Poles Apart: Why divisions deepen and societies splinter by Ali Goldsworthy 9781847942951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£4.60We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter... -
Poles Apart: Why divisions deepen and societies splinter by Ali Goldsworthy
RRP: £20.00£17.62We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter... -
A Sense of Inequality by Wendy Bottero 9781783487875
RRP: £39.00£36.07We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people's everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: £49.99£44.50In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American... -
Point of Arrival: A Study of London's East End by Chaim Bermant 9781032369235
RRP: £31.99£28.33Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their home in the East End of London. This was their point of arrival in a new country, and for many it was the only...