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The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art by Nick Wilson
RRP: £41.99£36.75The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson... -
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
RRP: £25.99£20.84Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award,... -
Gender Theory in Troubled Times by Kathleen Lennon 9780745683027
RRP: £17.99£16.04Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed,... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: £26.99£22.80Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction by Warwick-Booth 9781509539536
RRP: £24.99£21.81Contemporary Health Studies provides an accessible introduction to current issues and key debates in understanding and promoting health. Its up-to-date, global focus places a strong emphasis on the social, political and environmental dimensions of health... -
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £52.00£44.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521642Author Susan Buck-MorssFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Community by Peter Block
RRP: £24.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095568Author Peter BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Haven in a Heartless World by Christopher Lasch 9780393313031
RRP: £18.50£15.15One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral... -
Knowledge Resistance: How We Avoid Insight from Others by Mikael Klintman 9781526135209
RRP: £25.00£18.81Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness', the question has never been more pressing. After years of... -
The Agency of Children: From Family to Global Human Rights by David Oswell
RRP: £26.99£23.20The idea of children's agency is central to the growing field of childhood studies. In this book David Oswell argues for new understandings of children's agency. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across the nineteenth, twentieth and... -
Pieces of a Larger Mirror by Abigail Smith-Buckle 9781398430914
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398430914Author Abigail Smith-BuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Integral Urbanism by Nan Ellin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl,... -
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets by Donald MacKenzie
RRP: £35.00£24.02A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by... -
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva 9780231214537
RRP: £20.00£15.89Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and... -
After Method: Mess in Social Science Research by John Law
RRP: £53.99£46.87John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case, methods are always political, and it raises the question of what... -
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
RRP: £16.99£15.22Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial. Through an... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets by Jennifer Kavanagh 9781408713143 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.53In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before.On the surface,... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets by Jennifer Kavanagh 9781408713143
RRP: £16.99£11.54In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before.On the surface,... -
Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation by Norman K. Denzin 9781557862914
RRP: £40.95£35.89Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter... -
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality by Agnes Horvath 9781785337499
RRP: £27.95£22.58Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between... -
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought by Kenneth Morrison
RRP: £51.00£41.74`This is an excellent introduction to classical social theory. For most students it is the only book on the subject that they will need. The expositions are clear and comprehensive, outlining with almost alarming clarity ideas with which many of us have... -
Retrotopia by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509515325
RRP: £14.99£13.58We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state-a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a... -
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Zouwen Ho
RRP: £26.99£23.32Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the... -
A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
RRP: £12.99£11.94First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it... -
The Workers' Union by Flora Tristan
RRP: £19.99£15.90Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Tristan urged French workers to put aside... -
Visitors' Historic Britain: West Sussex: Stone Age to Cold War by Kevin Newman 9781526703330
RRP: £14.99£7.54Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but _Visitors' Historic Britain - West Sussex_ is the first book to take readers on a tour of discovery of... -
Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross
RRP: £25.00£16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095032Author Howard J. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Disinformation in the Global South by Herman Wasserman
RRP: £49.95£43.47A timely and incisive exploration of disinformation and its impact in the Global South In Disinformation in the Global South, media and communications scholars Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales deliver a unique and geographically diverse... -
Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social Structure by Thomas J. Scheff 9780226736679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £27.00£6.05Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings together the study of communication and the social psychology of emotions to explore the microworld of thoughts, feelings, and moods. Drawing on strikingly... -
Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social Structure by Thomas J. Scheff
RRP: £27.00£26.47Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings together the study of communication and the social psychology of emotions to explore the microworld of thoughts, feelings, and moods. Drawing on strikingly... -
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese 9780679752929
RRP: £19.00£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Book Award 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679752929Author Abraham VergheseFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming 9780745334868
RRP: £24.99£19.39There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life... -
How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country by Will Hutton
RRP: £10.99£2.91Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an... -
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities by Thomas DeGloma 9780226765136
RRP: £24.00£23.03A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump's first impeachment,... -
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
RRP: £13.99£12.03When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His... -
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by PH D Jean M Twenge
RRP: £18.99£11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416575993Author W Keith CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Cultural Emergence: A Toolkit for Transforming Ourselves & the World by Looby Macnamara
RRP: £22.00£14.45The challenging times we live in show us that there is no going back to 'normal' life, but how do we step forward? Looby Macnamara, international thought leader and teacher, introduces 'Cultural Emergence', a framework and toolkit that enables us to... -
Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur
RRP: £16.99£11.67'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never... -
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway 9780525540397
RRP: £8.99£6.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525540397Author Scott GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 106mm *... -
A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Becky Taylor 9780719091261
RRP: £19.99£17.61A minority and the state looks at the relationship between Travellers, or 'Gypsies', and the wider settled society in Britain throughout the twentieth century. This detailed study considers the ways in which the state has tried to create and enforce...