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Canada: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Wright 9780198755241
RRP: £8.99£6.45Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this... -
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad by Eqbal Ahmad
RRP: £35.00£28.14Activist, 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£12.70*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... -
Discovering Sociology by Mark McCormack
£29.58This 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... -
Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective by Michelle L. Inderbitzin 9781544395777
RRP: £121.00£114.85Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective provides a sociological examination of deviant behavior in society, with a significant focus on the major theories of deviance and society's reaction to deviance. Authors Michelle Inderbitzin,... -
Proven Psychological Manipulation Techniques: Guiltless Guide into the Psychology of How Cunning People Get What They Want. How to Play Secret Dark Games to Seize Control and Always Win by Emory Green 9781647801021
RRP: £16.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647801021Author Emory GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Modern Mind MediaPublisher Modern Mind MediaWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745608303
RRP: £24.99£22.21The 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... -
Evidence: Law and Context Claire Mcgourlay 9781032542775
RRP: £35.99£31.69Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on... -
Kurdish Women's Stories Houzan Mahmoud 9780745341149
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A fascinating, inspiring journey' - Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s,... -
Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell 9780465045891
RRP: £22.99£16.28Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a... -
AQA GCSE 9-1 Sociology Student Book (AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology) by Pauline Wilson
RRP: £27.99£27.07Exam board: AQALevel & subject: GCSE 9-1 SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017Next exams: June 2023 Get your students engaging with the 2017 specification: all the knowledge and skills students need to succeed set out in clear, approachable... -
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto 9780865718548
RRP: £14.99£9.88Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are... -
The English Year by Steve Roud
RRP: £16.99£12.28This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year's Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in... -
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
RRP: £12.99£10.30Claude M. Steele, who has been called "one of the few great social psychologists," offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social... -
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
RRP: £13.99£9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984858979Author Emily LadauFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation by Faye V Harrison 9780913167830
RRP: £18.00£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913167830Author Faye V HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint American Anthropological AssociationPublisher American Anthropological... -
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) by Richard Layard
RRP: £10.99£7.77In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story... -
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... -
Where Is My Flying Car? by J Storrs Hall
RRP: £17.99£12.70From 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... -
Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences by Frances Clegg 9780521288026
RRP: £21.75£20.95Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates... -
THE GREAT MUGHALS by FARHAT NASREEN
£7.40Apologies 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. -
Remaking Culture and Music Spaces: Affects, Infrastructures, Futures by Ian Woodward 9781032184999
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing, and curating new objects... -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 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... -
Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day by Stephen Brooke 9780199680979
£30.16Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship... -
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... -
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... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence 9780198779544
RRP: £17.99£15.52Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through the... -
Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman
RRP: £22.99£18.29Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a... -
Politics of Affect 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... -
OCR A-level Sociology Student Guide 3: Debates in contemporary society: Globalisation and the digital social world; Crime and deviance Katherine Roberts 9781510472075
£12.69Reinforce understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 3: Debates in contemporary society: Globalisation and the digital social world; and Crime and deviance.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style... -
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudounaris
RRP: £25.00£16.47A macabre, spectacular and thought-provoking survey of human remains used in decorative, commemorative or devotional contexts across the world today, from the author of Heavenly Bodies and The Empire of Death. Memento Mori takes the reader on a... -
Pluralism, Justice, and Equality by David Miller 9780198279372
£74.17The 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... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: £17.00£14.62In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as... -
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... -
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson
RRP: £21.00£18.16Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will... -
Haralambos and Holborn - AQA A Level Sociology Themes and Perspectives: Year 2 by Mike Haralambos
RRP: £27.99£27.07Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS and A Level SociologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 The most up-to-date coverage and in-depth exam support for AQA A-level Sociology, from the bestselling authors of... -
Korea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by James Hoare 9781787028883
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Divided along the 38th parallel, modern Korea is the subject of two very different political, social, and economic experiments. Today the military might of the Marxist-Leninist North confronts the... -
The Modern Law of Contract Richard Stone 9781032626734
RRP: £36.99£32.53Written by an author team with over sixty years of combined teaching experience, the new edition of The Modern Law of Contract is the complete textbook for students of contract law, providing not only clear and authoritative commentary but also a... -
OCR A-level Sociology Student Guide 1: Socialisation, culture and identity with Family and Youth subcultures Katherine Roberts 9781510472051
£12.69Reinforce students' understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 1: Socialisation, culture and identity with Family and Youth Subcultures.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and... -
Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America by J. E. Goldthorpe 9780521337526
RRP: £30.99£28.28This book was first published in 1987, offering a masterly review and synthesis of the available literature on family life in western societies. This book presents a distinctive approach to family sociology, focusing on two related questions: Why did we...