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Basilicata: Authentic Italy by Karen Haid 9781734832204
£15.49Apologies 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... -
Observations on Modernity by Niklas Luhmann 9780804732352
RRP: £27.99£24.14This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory. In the introductory essay,... -
The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
RRP: £10.99£8.08We 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... -
Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture: The revised and updated third edition of the author's Earth User's Guide to Permaculture: 2022 by Rosemary Morrow 9780648845904
RRP: £38.99£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648845904Author Rosemary MorrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Melliodora PublishingPublisher Melliodora PublishingWeight(grams)... -
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... -
Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 9789401790871
RRP: £59.99£55.13The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and... -
Identity: Sociological Perspectives Steph Lawler 9780745654164
RRP: £15.99£14.41Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others... -
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
RRP: £16.99£15.22Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial. Through an... -
Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi
RRP: £8.99£6.45Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ghettos and cultural fragmentation, providing fertile ground for Islamic radicalism, encouraging perverse... -
London's South Bank: The History by Mireille Galinou
RRP: £35.00£26.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361029Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: £37.99£33.38Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don'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... -
Culture of Fear by Frank Furedi 9780826493958
RRP: £25.99£25.50Fear 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... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: £63.99£50.46Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting... -
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution Lucy Series 9781529211993
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... -
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger
RRP: £17.99£10.36Apologies 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 *... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
RRP: £14.99£13.58"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever... -
Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between Bjorn Thomassen 9781138610941
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to... -
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study 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... -
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
RRP: £10.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547228Author Sujatha GidlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies 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... -
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
RRP: £12.99£10.15A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera,... -
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
RRP: £24.99£22.21This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis... -
The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World by Allison J. Pugh 9780691240817
RRP: £25.00£18.23A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never... -
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... -
The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change by Angela McRobbie
RRP: £39.99£32.66In 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,... -
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research by Iddo Tavory
RRP: £18.00£15.40In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that... -
Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare Brian Lund 9781447333227
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... -
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... -
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... -
100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation Frank Furedi 9783110705126
RRP: £27.00£20.53The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the 'crisis... -
Under the Skin: racism, inequality, and the health of a nation by Linda Villarosa
RRP: £16.99£11.58NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation. In the US, Black people have poorer... -
Apocalyptic Narratives: Science, Risk and Prophecy by Hauke Riesch 9781032006086
RRP: £37.99£33.38Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? by Jonathan Portes 9781526464422
RRP: £12.99£11.05"A short, sharp and compelling book." The Observer At a time when immigration has once again become a deeply contentious political issue, Jonathan Portes provides some much-needed clarity, taking on misinformation and inaccurate reporting to reveal... -
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama 9780349112541 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.13At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate moral principles to guide us in our daily lives? ... -
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama 9780349112541
RRP: £9.99£6.80At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate moral principles to guide us in our daily lives? ... -
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities by Ray Oldenburg 9781569246122
RRP: £16.99£14.10Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places... -
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus Emmanuel Todd 9781509534470
RRP: £30.00£27.05In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our...