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Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Ch ildren by Desmurget 9781509546404
RRP: €21.41€19.09All forms of recreational digital consumption - whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs - have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time... -
EU Employment Law by Catherine Barnard 9780199692927
€109.33This new edition of EU Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on all the latest developments, incorporating the changes... -
Class in the New Millennium: The Structure, Homologies and Experience of the British Social Space by Will Atkinson 9780367876975
RRP: €47.59€41.72Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive theoretical agenda, it not only painstakingly maps the structure, transformation... -
The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
RRP: €17.84€16.16Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of... -
The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are by Robert Wright
RRP: €17.84€11.66THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be human.Taking the life of Charles Darwin as his context, Robert Wright brilliantly demonstrates how Darwin's ideas have stood the... -
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
RRP: €13.08€9.25Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of... -
Where Is My Flying Car? by J Storrs Hall
RRP: €21.41€15.11From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future. The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological... -
Man and His Symbols by C. G. Jung
RRP: €21.42€13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499993Author Carl G. JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations by Marcello Musto
RRP: €36.88€30.76The planet is in deep trouble because of capitalism, and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of "real socialism", is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique. The Marx Revival is the best, most... -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures by Jurgen Habermas 9780745608303
RRP: €29.74€26.43The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is... -
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies by Nick Watson 9781032376189
RRP: €51.16€44.73This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today... -
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From: 2021 by Tony Joseph 9789391165956
€24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391165956Author Tony JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
Defending Women′s Spaces by KI Smith
RRP: €19.03€13.01Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
RRP: €10.70€7.16John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: €9.51€6.89'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and... -
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
RRP: €15.46€10.82Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest... -
A. B. C. - Alphabetization of the Popular Mind by Ivan Illich 9780714528915
RRP: €17.79€15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528915Author Ivan IllichFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett
RRP: €13.08€8.81'A truly gripping narrative . . . The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times'Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls... -
Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia by Chris Aslan
RRP: €29.75€21.44Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter... -
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it by Laura Dodsworth 9780008600945
RRP: €26.18€22.96Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks,... -
Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge
RRP: €13.08€9.25*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.In his ground-breaking... -
MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement by Richard Weight
RRP: €17.84€13.73Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a... -
Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory by Peter Hedstrom 9780521596879
RRP: €32.12€27.13The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance... -
Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small
RRP: €24.99€19.36Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess... -
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
RRP: €26.17€23.10To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case 9780691217079
RRP: €17.84€13.20A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom... -
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
RRP: €20.22€15.68"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to... -
Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy by Rod Liddle
RRP: €10.70€7.16With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain. 'One of Britain's funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren't so offensive you'd almost call him a national treasure' Mail on Sunday 'I,... -
Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior by Martin Daly
RRP: €52.35€45.74The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is... -
They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other by Sarfraz Manzoor 9781472266842
RRP: €15.46€8.46A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and a powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change.'This is not another book about the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is THE book. . . . Absolutely not to be... -
Studies in Ethnomethodology by Harold Garfinkel 9780745600055
RRP: €21.41€19.09This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics. It is one of the... -
Introduction to Systems Theory by Niklas Luhmann 9780745645728
RRP: €22.60€20.08Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of disciplines... -
Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness by Karen Throsby
RRP: €23.79€17.28In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at... -
My Revision Notes: AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology by Ian Woodfield
RRP: €13.69€13.08Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in AQA GCSE Sociology with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks... -
Victorian Guide to Sex by Fern Riddell 9781781592861
RRP: €15.46€10.82An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period,... -
Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe by Ronan Bolton
RRP: €65.44€58.74Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of... -
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781137032232
RRP: €33.31€30.29Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are... -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
RRP: €13.08€9.25The acclaimed sociologist's landmark, compassionate work on how society treats those who are different'By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human'In ancient times stigma were physical marks branded on people... -
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires by Kristin Surak 9780674248649
RRP: €35.64€27.60"[A] fascinating study of how people and their capital seek to move around a world that is at once hugely interconnected and driven by inequities...definitive, detailed, and unusually nuanced." Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Foreign AffairsThe first... -
Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: €11.89€10.65Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to...