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Culture and Power: Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu by David Swartz 9780226785950
RRP: £28.00£27.39Pierre Bourdieu is a prominent social theorist and researcher in contemporary sociology. In this critical examination of his oeuvre David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work - the complex relationship between culture and power, and... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: £8.99£6.08What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national... -
Events Management by Glenn A. J. Bowdin 9780367491840
RRP: £46.99£42.57A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events. The... -
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis by Ed Atkins
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... -
In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms by Helga Nowotny 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... -
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design by Gunther Kress
RRP: £37.99£33.78This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook... -
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... -
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... -
The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory of Sociotechnical Change by Ulrich Dolata 9781138807846
RRP: £39.99£35.06Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain... -
The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders by Peter Conrad
£21.18Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity-are now viewed as medical conditions. For... -
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant 9781399720205
RRP: £16.99£13.37*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 by Ines de la Fressange
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£18.15Is 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... -
In the Name of Women's Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism by Sara R. Farris
£20.84Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands,... -
O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology by Matt Hern 9783837670264
RRP: £45.00£35.94Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as... -
Forensic and Legal Medicine: Clinical and Pathological Aspects by Jason Payne-James 9780367672454
RRP: £130.00£115.01A comprehensive and accessible resource covering all aspects of forensic and legal medicine. The text provides a foundation for those working in both the clinical and forensic aspects of care and will also be an asset to those involved in the police or... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought by 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... -
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman 9780691248882
£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... -
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... -
Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1830 by Frank Mort 9780415167345
RRP: £46.99£40.97Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now... -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: £13.99£9.20The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing... -
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy 9780316256575
RRP: £30.00£19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Psychology) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780316256575Author Amy CuddyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl 9781846681868 [USED COPY]
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The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
£7.40We 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... -
Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by Prof. James Davison Hunter 9780465015344
£27.40A 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... -
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... -
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa 9780231148351
£32.49Hartmut 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,... -
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...