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O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology by Matt Hern 9783837670264
RRP: €53.55€42.77Can 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: €154.70€136.86A 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: €21.41€19.09This 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
RRP: €23.80€18.91The 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: €23.80€20.97We 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: €55.92€48.75Dangerous 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... -
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling 9780393329469
RRP: €17.84€14.68"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." -official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the... -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: €16.65€10.95The 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: €35.70€23.25Apologies 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: €19.03€17.15'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: €49.98€39.79An 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: €46.41€42.92We 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: €59.49€52.96In 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: €21.41€14.45Apologies 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: €44.03€42.57One 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: €45.21€39.72First 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
€18.12Apologies 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: €44.02€39.60Long 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]
RRP: €11.89€4.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
RRP: €11.89€8.81We 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
€32.61A 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: €42.83€37.71This 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: €17.84€11.66With 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: €42.83€37.71This 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
€38.53Hartmut 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: €13.08€9.78Don'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... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: €10.70€7.68Homer, 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... -
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution by Lucy Series
RRP: €29.74€23.07ePDF 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: €21.41€13.10Apologies 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 *... -
Understanding Japanese Society by Joy Hendry
RRP: €44.02€38.71In 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: €19.03€16.45In 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: €32.12€24.80Child 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... -
Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780199773954
RRP: €24.98€21.03Genealogy has long been one of humanity's greatest obsessions. But with the rise of genetics, and increasing media attention through television programs like Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of America, we are now told that genetic markers can... -
Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Svelch
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047753Author Jaroslav SvelchFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies by Anna Amelina 9780415754576
RRP: €54.73€44.66Cross-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: €11.89€10.71Once 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: €59.49€51.77This 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... -
Identity and Belonging by Kate Huppatz
€46.11Identity 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... -
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
RRP: €11.89€8.46'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... -
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
RRP: €38.08€22.06Apologies 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)...