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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont 9781788738910
RRP: €22.60€16.41There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles,... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: €13.08€8.71Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the... -
The Monocle Guide to Better Living by The Monocle 9783899554908
€49.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899554908Author The MonocleFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture by Johannes Fabian 9780813917863
€35.52In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large... -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: €44.03€38.87The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on... -
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
RRP: €13.08€9.25Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: what's it like to live in... -
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: €22.60€18.41In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh... -
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze 9780008374990
RRP: €17.84€9.52Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this... -
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern 9781529356441
RRP: €13.08€7.70'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born... -
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency by Vicky Spratt 9781788161275
RRP: €23.80€17.48ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN 'Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - Pandora Sykes 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... it forces you to step back, look at the whole... -
Cities for People Jan Gehl 9781597265737
RRP: €54.74€46.92For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: €13.08€9.25Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in?As Charles... -
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton 9780008443832
RRP: €23.80€16.07A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A radical reckoning with the racial... -
A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott
RRP: €16.65€12.08A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
RRP: €13.08€9.25'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New... -
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency by Vicky Spratt
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - PANDORA SYKES 'Excellent' - NOVARA MEDIA 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.' THE TIMES ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED,... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 9781848549722
RRP: €13.08€8.81Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people... -
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology by Maan Barua 9781517912567
RRP: €28.55€24.80A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: €15.46€10.82From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: €19.03€12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440064Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better Shain Shapiro 9781915672056
RRP: €15.46€10.23This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed. Told in an accessible way through... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North... -
The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher
RRP: €32.13€21.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112709Author Kate AscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 275mm *... -
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman 9780375703799
RRP: €19.67€15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703799Author Katherine S. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London by Asa Briggs
RRP: €17.84€13.03In 1837, in England and Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London's population more than doubled.In this companion volume to Victorian People and Victorian... -
Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics Garth Myers 9781447322924
RRP: €33.31€25.67Africa's urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and wealth, and hazardous and unhealthy environments as the pace of change stretches local resources. Yet... -
Home by Alison Blunt
RRP: €42.83€37.71Home articulates a 'critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in... -
Doing Feminist Urban Research: Insights from the GenUrb Project Linda Peake 9781032668680
RRP: €41.64€36.71Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies,... -
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
RRP: €13.08€9.25A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive,... -
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time... -
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn 9781907903816
RRP: €17.84€16.23A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: "These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several... -
Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics Stephen Graham (University of Durham) 9781405115759
RRP: €23.79€21.53Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period. A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism... -
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers by Stephen Graham
RRP: €15.46€13.58Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical... -
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin
RRP: €23.80€17.09One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023 Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. ... -
Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low
RRP: €24.98€21.82Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environmental... -
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism by Shelton Stromquist
RRP: €101.15€82.44Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn... -
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: €11.89€9.72An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of... -
For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione 9781478025306
RRP: €27.36€23.81In For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: €11.89€11.76According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... -
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett
RRP: €17.84€14.93In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define...