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Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
RRP: £21.99£21.69From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a... -
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 9781517901738
RRP: £21.99£15.30Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda... -
Our Psychiatric Future by Nikolas Rose 9780745689128
RRP: £17.99£16.04Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by... -
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti
RRP: £26.49£19.09Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries,... -
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O'Neil 9781802060317
RRP: £12.99£9.09A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or... -
The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream by Kathryn Strother Ratcliff 9781509504329
RRP: £17.99£16.04This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world - and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system - is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery... -
Symbolic Exchange and Death by Jean Baudrillard 9781473907584
RRP: £51.00£41.34Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the... -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484
RRP: £12.99£9.33Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
RRP: £16.99£11.27'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book' Brian Eno'Very funny, as satire should be, until you realise it's deadly... -
Postmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman 9780631186939 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.95£6.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Postmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman 9780631186939
RRP: £32.95£29.14Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way... -
The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason by Monika Krause
RRP: £24.00£23.03NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes,... -
Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain by Janet B Reid
RRP: £28.99£18.22This book engages readers in exploring whether and how we might rewire our brains to disrupt implicit unconscious biases, change default mindsets, and develop intrinsically inclusive behaviours. Reid and Brown ask timely and provocative questions to... -
Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together by Ori Schwarz 9781509542970
RRP: £17.99£16.04The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life - it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges... -
Stuff: Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper by Chip Colwell 9781805260493
RRP: £25.00£22.03The fascinating tale of humankind's journey from owning nothing to being owned-by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions? Over 3 million years ago, our ancestors realised they could break apart rocks for sharp... -
The New Latin America by Fernando Calderon
RRP: £18.99£16.87Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
RRP: £18.99£15.03In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and... -
Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Carol Appleby 9780306806810
£18.09The Jimi Hendrix Experience had one of the most dazzling and sensational careers of any band. Their roller-coaster ride through a schedule of sell-out tours and frantic recording sessions left them crazed with sex, drugs, stardom, and exhaustion but at... -
What is Digital Sociology? by Neil Selwyn 9781509527113
RRP: £14.99£13.58The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn... -
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: £13.99£12.80Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data... -
On The Track Of Unknown Animals by Heuvelmans
RRP: £45.99£41.13First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des betes ignorees (1955), appeared in French. With this book, the great adventure of 'Cryptozoology', the science of hidden animals, began.About... -
The Myth Of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen
RRP: £17.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806781Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 486g -
Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research: A Generic Approach by Robert Elliot
RRP: £22.99£22.85The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather... -
Gender: The Basics: 2nd edition by Hilary M. Lips
RRP: £19.99£17.69Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the influence of cultural, historical, biological, psychological, and economic forces on ways in which we have come to define and experience femininity and masculinity, and on the impact and importance of... -
Childhood, Culture and Society: In a Global Context by Michael Wyness
RRP: £42.99£35.42Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood. A formidable exploration of the nature of contemporary childhood in globally disparate... -
Introducing Quantitative Methods: A Practical Guide by Daniela Aidley
£72.19This exciting new core textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to quantitative methods, taking a project-based approach. The author's extensive knowledge and straightforward writing style ensure that students are steered through the process... -
The Nature of Money by Geoffrey Ingham 9780745609973
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the 'social relation' of money. Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the... -
World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
The Arena of Racism by Michel Wieviorka
RRP: £56.00£45.47In this vital addition to the sociological literature on racism, Michel Wieviorka presents a detailed and revisionary analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing that racism is not reducible to... -
Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind by Nikolas Rose
RRP: £28.00£21.80The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that... -
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.77'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' NatureOf all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte 9781859844106
RRP: £18.99£16.69Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elected to lead the Mouvement National Congolais, the party he founded in 1958, Lumumba was at the centre of the... -
The Normal Chaos of Love by Ulrich Beck 9780745613826
RRP: £17.99£16.04This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.About the AuthorUlrich... -
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research by Stephen L. Morgan 9781107694163
RRP: £34.99£30.49In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and health... -
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450167
RRP: £9.99£7.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450167Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, or Is It Just Me? by Jen Mann
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593158517Author Jen MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Invention of Green Colonialism by Guillaume Blanc 9781509550890
RRP: £15.99£14.41The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization -... -
Diversity Management and Discrimination: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the EU by John Wrench
RRP: £39.99£35.06What can diversity management offer those concerned with ethnic inequality, racial discrimination, and issues of social and economic inclusion and exclusion? In this book John Wrench traces the emergence of diversity management in the US in the late... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined... -
London's South Bank: The History by Mireille Galinou
£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