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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... -
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... -
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger
RRP: £17.99£11.01Apologies 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: £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... -
Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780199773954
RRP: £20.99£17.13Genealogy 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: £26.95£16.62Apologies 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: £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... -
Identity and Belonging by Kate Huppatz
£38.75Identity 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: £9.99£7.67'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: £32.00£18.54Apologies 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)... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews 9781786992789
RRP: £30.00£22.44'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... -
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£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,... -
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... -
Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories by Jo Healey 9781138482104
RRP: £28.99£25.09Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief.Amid a growing demand and need for guidance, this... -
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... -
100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation by Frank Furedi
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... -
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£2.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova by Jason Arday 9781032239989
RRP: £19.99£17.69Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority... -
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus by 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... -
Policing Citizens: Police, Power and the State by P. A. J. Waddington
RRP: £47.99£41.81This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from paramilitarism to community policing - have their origins in the fundamentals of the police role. The... -
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life by Richard Paul
RRP: £37.00£34.67Use better thinking to empower yourself, discover opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, build wealth, and achieve your biggest goals! This is your complete, up-to-the-minute blueprint for assessing and improving the way you think about everything -... -
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking by Ryszard Piotrowicz
RRP: £45.99£40.13Trafficking in human beings (THB) has been described as modern slavery. It is a serious criminal activity that has significant ramifications for the human rights of the victims. It poses major challenges to the state, society and individual victims. THB... -
The Value of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain by Jenny Rodriguez 9781529236958
RRP: £27.99£21.57Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work. Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant... -
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... -
Homosexual Desire by Guy Hocquenghem
£18.37Originally 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... -
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David J. Rothkopf 9780349120256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David J. Rothkopf
£13.33The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress of globalization and perhaps the group most changed by that... -
Kyiv - Moments In Time by Peter Ford 9781399946742
RRP: £29.99£23.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399946742Author Peter FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint FordographyPublisher FordographyWeight(grams) 1300gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 300mm * 17mm -
Modernity and Ambivalence by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745612423
RRP: £19.99£17.69Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is... -
Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously by Paddy Hillyard
RRP: £29.99£23.02Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions... -
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
£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 End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society by William Deresiewicz 9781250858634
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250858634Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...