Social Scientists & Psychologists

'CN Lester breaks down the myths and misconceptions about trans people and politics with clarity and calm. An important, timely book' JULIET JACQUESIn this eye-opening book, CN Lester, academic and activist, takes us on a journey through some of the most...

In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP. From taking to...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145420Author Mary Crow DogFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war...

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903699218Author Maria JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)...

He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant...

A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves-including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie...

Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author's experiences with and reflections on psychedelics,...

A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Over fifty years, he has gained...

In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010, during which so much has changed. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame...

When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the entire world. How did she survive a childhood locked in a cellar?...

Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished...

The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir.'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333795Author Eldridge CleaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The remarkable true story of the bestselling author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, and the real women she met in Afghanistan'Composed of heartbreak, hope, poignancy and candour' LA TIMESIn a little beauty school in the war zone of Kabul, a community...

INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of...

Dave Pelzer's sequel to million-copy bestseller A CHILD CALLED 'IT'As a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare and he had nothing and no one to turn to. But his dreams kept him...

Ghada Karmi's acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographical story, In Search of Fatima reflects the author's...

This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison. One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172865Author Emmett GroganFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father. 'My father takes my face in his hands. He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. I feel his fingers in the...

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick "Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and...

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army.From the breakneck pace of an opening where he is in action in Helmand province, under fire from the Taliban, Mick Flynn pulls no punches. It's...

In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space,...

At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United...

Annabelle Forest was just seven years old when she was inducted into a twisted sex cult by her own mother. For the next few years she was brainwashed by the cult's leader, Colin Batley, who ran a harem of followers from his unassuming cul-de-sac in...

"I'm writing this book under a pseudonym.If I used my real name, I may become a hostage myself. And I don't want that. I've seen what it can do to people."Ben Lopez is a Kidnap-for-Ransom consultant. He spends his days travelling from one crisis zone to...

Criminal Women tells the stories of four women who, in attempting to become women of their own making, became deeply involved in crime.Throughout the book, tales from the underworld and the criminal business world are interspersed with inside accounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147617Author Russell MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 573Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g

She was a beautiful blond child, a quintessential Canadian teenager: she loved Saturday film matinees, giggled at pyjama parties, ran for student president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309442Author Elyn R SaksFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm * 25mm

'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714603Author Appignanesi RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236g