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The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle
RRP: £9.99£7.11The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money. 'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England Imagine a year living without... -
The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System: Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective by Margaret S. Archer 9780367756796
RRP: £39.99£35.06Based in the philosophy of critical realism, this book employs a range of Margaret Archer's theoretical concepts to investigate temporal and spatial aspects of Norwegian education. Stemming from Archer's engagement as visiting professor from 2017 to 2019... -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£18.28For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
Land Sickness by N Schultz
RRP: £9.99£6.80As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island... -
Understanding Foucault: A Critical Introduction by Tony Schirato 9781446252352
RRP: £44.99£36.74"An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease." - Professor John Frow, University of Melbourne ... -
Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth by Dave Elder-Vass
RRP: £75.00£67.74Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild 9781620973493
RRP: £13.99£9.26In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: £25.95£20.22George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize,... -
Discovering Sociology by Mark McCormack
£29.03This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the... -
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by Dr Brian Klaas
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' - Adam Grant'Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out the story of the intoxicating lure of power-and... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene... -
Blasphemy: A Very Short Introduction by Yvonne Sherwood 9780198797579
RRP: £8.99£6.45In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise. In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the... -
How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Future by Miguel Centeno
RRP: £29.99£27.04As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future? How Worlds Collapse offers case studies of... -
Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 9789401790871
RRP: £59.99£55.13The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and... -
Grounding Knowledge/Walking Land by Christopher Evans 9781902937502
RRP: £40.00£33.78This volume documents almost a decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapurna highlands of Nepal, including survey recording of fort and settlement sites. From the outset, the project's focus was the extraordinary ruins of Kohla Sombre -... -
The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention by Bernard Mayer
RRP: £52.00£45.60The Dynamics of Conflict When it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer's The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and... -
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad by Eqbal Ahmad
RRP: £35.00£27.61Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934-1999) was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. In articles and columns published in such journals as the Nation, New York Review of Books,... -
Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under by Sam Heughan 9781804190760
RRP: £22.00£14.56*With a foreword by Sir Peter Jackson*Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride.They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are no strangers to the rugged beauty of Scotland. But this time they're... -
Making Societies: The Historical Construction of Our World by William G. Roy 9780761986621
RRP: £76.00£71.43The only book written for undergraduates about the social construction of reality that is also historical and comparative. In addition, it includes chapters on the social construction of time and space, as well as the more traditional chapters on race,... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
RRP: £10.99£7.40Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most... -
Modern Land Law by Martin Dixon 9781032395753
RRP: £38.99£34.22Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Providing an accessible approach to a complex... -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610337
RRP: £22.99£20.16Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £10.49£7.44Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: £17.99£16.04This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging' Gyles Brandreth, author of Word Play Why do we have... -
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: £10.99£7.77Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have... -
Pluralism, Justice, and Equality by David Miller 9780198279372
£63.31The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Justice. Is social justice a radically plural notion, with its principles determined by the different... -
THE GREAT MUGHALS by FARHAT NASREEN
RRP: £11.99£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390260126Author FARHAT NASREENFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Politics of Affect by Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: £15.99£14.41'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth... -
Sociology for AQA Volume 2: 2nd-Year A Level by Ken Browne 9780745696942
RRP: £22.99£21.76An AQA-approved resource. Sociology for AQA Volume 2 is the new edition of Ken Browne, Jonathan Blundell and Pamela Law's widely used textbook, designed for the second year of AQA's new Sociology A level (for first teaching from September 2015). The... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: £44.99£33.88The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
Social: Why our brains are wired to connect by Matthew D. Lieberman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise... -
Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz
RRP: £39.95£31.85The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing... -
Julian of Norwich: The Showings: Uncovering the Face of the Feminine in Revelations of Divine Love by Mirabai Starr
RRP: £18.95£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970364Author Mirabai StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice by Michael Johnston
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best. Drawing on many years of experience and... -
Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies by Robin Cohen 9780367659844
RRP: £45.99£40.13The word 'diaspora' has leapt from its previously confined use - mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands - to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions... -
The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted by Mark Forsyth
RRP: £1.99£1.74Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.Along the way he considers the wisdom... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout... -
Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate with Esoterics, Fanatics and Conspiracy Believers by Holm Gero Hümmler 9783662660317
RRP: £24.99£15.17When having coffee with your family, you are offered energized water. On Twitter you discuss with vaccination opponents. The WhatsApp kitagroup discusses zodiac signs, the pharmacy sells you globules, the neighbor proselytizes for her guru, and the news...