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In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms by Helga Nowotny 9781509548811
RRP: €23.80€16.36One 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: €45.21€40.20This 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: €42.83€35.12Death 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: €10.70€7.68Multiculturalism 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... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: €10.70€7.24What 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... -
Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction. by Herbert H. Blumberg 9780275927622
€77.98Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions. It is pershaps the most comprehensive theory available today... -
The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory of Sociotechnical Change by Ulrich Dolata 9781138807846
RRP: €49.97€43.73Scientific 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
RRP: €28.56€25.20Over 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: €20.22€15.92*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: €11.88€8.56Apologies 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: €29.74€21.13Is 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
RRP: €28.55€22.84Sara 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: €52.35€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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context by Barbara Rogoff 9780195070033
€116.24In this book, the author explores the mental developmental of children. unlike Piaget, Rogoff sees learning as an apprenticeship - a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills. The... -
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
€18.77Apologies 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
€49.14Long 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€4.15We 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
€30.87A 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€14.98With 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
RRP: €33.32€26.42Hartmut 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,... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers by Jan Chipchase
RRP: €22.60€15.12Who are your next customers - not just the ones you are serving today but the ones you'll need three, five, ten years from now? How do you figure out what goods and services will attract them in the future? How do you figure this out ahead of your... -
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... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: €76.15€60.05Many 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 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...