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Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745662831
RRP: £15.99£14.41'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video... -
The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
RRP: £9.99£7.19We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming... -
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
RRP: £42.00£32.83An 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... -
A Sense of Inequality by Wendy Bottero 9781783487875
RRP: £37.00£35.41We 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... -
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Citie s We Need by Johanna Hoffman
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177362Author Johanna HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity by Martin Buber
RRP: £37.00£35.77One of the foremost religious and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber also wrote extensively on sociological subjects, particularly as these affected his philosophical concerns. Collected here, these writings offer essential... -
Thought as a System: Second edition by Chris Jenks
RRP: £37.99£33.38First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415110303Author Chris JenksFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g -
Basilicata: Authentic Italy by Karen Haid 9781734832204
£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734832204Author Karen HaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Hiller PressPublisher Hiller PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Hein de Haas
RRP: £36.99£33.28Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they... -
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa 9780231148351
RRP: £28.00£21.76Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation,... -
The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski
RRP: £20.00£13.74In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of... -
Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by Prof. James Davison Hunter 9780465015344
£25.94A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.About the AuthorJames Davidson Hunter is... -
A Critical Realist Theory of Sport by Graham Scambler
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or... -
The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition by Daniel Bell
RRP: £14.99£9.80With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism,and the culture it creates,harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal... -
Contentious Identities: Ethnic, Religious and National Conflicts in Today's World by Daniel Chirot
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such as the former Yugoslavia. Dan Chirot casts his analysis in a discussion of the conflict between national and ethnic identity, discovering that ethnic... -
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780822334422
RRP: £20.99£16.42In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first... -
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
RRP: £10.99£7.99Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world s great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different... -
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution by Lucy Series
RRP: £24.99£19.39ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a... -
Identity and Belonging by Kate Huppatz
£38.04Identity and Belonging examines the interplay between self and society and in doing so explores the complex nature of 'who we are' and 'how we come to be' as individuals and as members of various social groups. Investigating issues of identity and... -
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger
RRP: £17.99£10.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476759739Author Jonah BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews 9781786992789
RRP: £30.00£21.99'Lucid, fluent and compelling' - Observer 'We need writers like Andrews ... These are truths we need to be hearing' - New Statesman Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and... -
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom' J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy 'A page-turner and revelation, Political Tribes will change the way you think' Tim Wu, author of The Attention... -
Understanding Japanese Society by Joy Hendry
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this welcome brand new fifth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society, Joy Hendry takes the reader into the heart of Japanese life.Providing a clear and accessible introduction to Japanese ways of thinking, which does not... -
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study by Thomas Sowell 9780300107753
RRP: £15.99£13.82In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell... -
Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive by Morag C. Treanor 9781447334682
RRP: £26.99£20.84Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often... -
Staithes: A Place Apart by Gloria Wilson 9781907206634
RRP: £20.00£16.43In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves. She writes: In this... -
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies by Anna Amelina 9780415754576
RRP: £45.99£37.53Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens... -
An Economist's Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science! by Richard Easterlin 9783030619619
RRP: £9.99£9.00Once called the "dismal science," economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this book Richard Easterlin, the "father of happiness economics," draws on a half-century of his own research and that conducted by fellow... -
Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes by Gail Super 9781138266964
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in post-apartheid South Africa. Having undergone a... -
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
RRP: £32.00£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793657Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
RRP: £34.95£28.05Preference 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... -
Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £10.99£7.40Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants,... -
The New Bauman Reader: Thinking Sociologically in Liquid Modern Times by Tony Blackshaw 9781784994037
RRP: £24.99£18.31Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In... -
The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change by Angela McRobbie
RRP: £39.99£35.21In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and 'affirmative feminism' and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the 'end' of feminism,... -
The Stranger by Shaun Best
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the... -
Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Martin Powell
RRP: £23.99£18.66As the state withdraws from welfare provision, the mixed economy of welfare - involving private, voluntary and informal sectors - has become ever more important. This second edition of Powell's acclaimed textbook on the subject brings together a wealth... -
The Mammoth Book of Superstition: From Rabbits' Feet to Friday the 13th by Roy Bainton
£2.18 - £2.91Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from... -
Homosexual Desire by Guy Hocquenghem
RRP: £20.99£17.98Originally published in 1972 in France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire has become a classic in gay theory. Translated into English for the first time in 1978 and out of print since the early 1980s, this new edition, with an introduction by Michael...