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Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt 9780742516854
RRP: $48.75$36.15"This book is stolen. Written in part on stolen time, that is. Because like millions of others who work for a living, I was giving most of my prime time to my employer..." So begins Jeff Schmidt in this riveting book about the world of professional work... -
Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought by Nikolas Rose 9780521659055
RRP: $48.73$40.40Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to... -
Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance by Shari Stone-Mediatore 9780312295677
RRP: $87.73$63.36In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of... -
The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace by Ifeoma Ajunwa
RRP: $52.63$45.24The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The... -
Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith G. Harper
RRP: $29.23$17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621061007Author Faith G. HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies by Matthias Gross 9780367608149
RRP: $85.78$75.74Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion;... -
The Anthem Companion to David Ricardo by J.E. King 9781839982910
RRP: $234.00$224.07With contributions from authorities on four continents, this edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772-1823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy. After an editorial... -
Economics for Humans, Second Edition by Julie A Nelson
RRP: $37.05$36.08At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned... -
Dark Tourism by Malcolm Foley 9780826450647
RRP: $113.08$112.44This book sets out to explore 'dark tourism'; that is, the representation of inhuman acts, and how these are interpreted for visitors at a number of places throughout the world, for example the sites of concentration camps in both Western and Eastern... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: $46.78$38.04This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Ukraine in Histories and Stories – Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals by Volodymyr Yermolenko
$50.13This collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a... -
Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique by Alex Callinicos 9780745606149
RRP: $33.13$29.68It has become an intellectual commonplace to claim that we have entered the era of 'post-modernity'. Three themes are embraced in this claim - the poststructuralist critique by Foucault, Derrida and others of the philosophical heritage of the... -
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself Peter Fleming 9780745334868
RRP: $48.73$37.81There 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 Institutions Think by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: $74.08$65.09First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions... -
Military Organization and Society Stanislaw Andrzejewski 9780415863575
RRP: $85.78$74.96First published in 1998. This is Volume Vi of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. The author of the present book belongs to the sociological tradition that, starting from Montesquieu, includes such thinkers as Herbert Spencer,... -
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
RRP: $58.50$45.42Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most... -
Sex In The Western World Jean-Louis Flandrin 9783718652013
RRP: $263.25$229.48First Published in 1991. In this book the author looks at the history of sexuality, discussing topics of love from the 15th century onwards, sexual morality and marriage, ancient and modern adages conernong procreation as a part of society and the sex... -
The Olympic Games and the Environment by John Karamichas 9780230228610
RRP: $87.73$87.69This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out... -
Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry 9781328767516
RRP: $48.75$34.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328767516Author Kirk GoldsberryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 208mm *... -
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women by Lisa Sugiura 9781839822575
RRP: $40.93$34.61The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement,... -
Philosophy & Nations: Essays from the Radical Philosophy Archive, Volume 2 by Austin Gross 9781916229228
RRP: $29.23$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916229228Author Austin GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive Ltd -
Pain and Suffering Ronald Schleifer, Ph.D 9780415843270
RRP: $72.13$63.43Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex... -
Critique & Betrayal: Essays from the Radical Philosophy Archive, Volume 1 by Austin Gross 9781916229204
RRP: $29.23$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916229204Author Austin GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Radical Philosophy Archive LtdPublisher Radical Philosophy Archive Ltd -
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity by Róisín Ryan-Flood 9781032499048
RRP: $72.13$63.43Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach,... -
On Individuality and Social Forms by Georg Simmel 9780226757766
RRP: $50.70$48.46"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social... -
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles
RRP: $54.60$42.51Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply... -
The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life David Lyon (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) 9780745671734
RRP: $31.18$28.10From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to... -
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
RRP: $44.85$43.15The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures... -
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen
RRP: $44.83$39.02In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the... -
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking by David Downes
RRP: $95.53$90.27An indispensable guide to the sociological theories behind crime, it outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically. Placing each theory in its European and North American contexts, the authors confront major... -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $103.25$85.23When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most... -
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor by Sandro Mezzadra
RRP: $46.78$40.64Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist... -
Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement by John Vail 9781032248684
RRP: $77.98$69.15This book offers a critical reconstruction of the double movement, the central thesis of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, one of the most influential books of the 20th century. The double movement is the establishment of a free market economy and... -
The Great Western Revival: Addresses of His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad Khalifatul-Masih V by Mirza Masroor Ahmad
RRP: $9.73$9.03The Great Western Revival is a collection of addresses by His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih V and Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The addresses revolve around establishing peace at all levels of society and tackling... -
Yoruba Proverbs by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: $62.40$55.79Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural... -
The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment by Klaus Eder 9780803978492
RRP: $120.90$105.32In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly... -
Wellness Culture: How the Wellness Movement has been used to Empower, Profit and Misinform Stephanie Alice Baker (City, University of London, UK) 9781802624687
RRP: $35.08$25.78Wellness has become synonymous with yoga, meditation, and other forms of self-care. Over the past 60 years, what began as an alternative to mainstream medicine has coalesced with consumer culture and has been commercialised to such an extent that the... -
The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts Salvatore Babones 9781509533091
RRP: $19.48$17.45The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backlash represents a dangerous new authoritarianism. But what if the really dangerous authoritarianism is in... -
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt 9780141030081
RRP: $11.68$10.86How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?The answer: Freakonomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily:... -
Thinking Through the Skin by Sara Ahmed 9780415223560
RRP: $97.48$84.83This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the...