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The Causes of Structural Unemployment: Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve by Thomas Janoski 9780745670270
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the... -
Drone Warfare by Sarah E. Kreps 9780745680989
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones... -
Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In by Roger Keil 9780745683119
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive growth in urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of the twenty-first century's startling urban... -
Smartphones as Locative Media by Jordan Frith 9780745685007
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these... -
Causation by Douglas Kutach 9780745659954
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causation have been applied, fruitfully,... -
Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space by Scott McQuire 9780745660752
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices... -
Postanarchism by Saul Newman 9780745688732
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.10What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order,... -
Genetic Ethics: An Introduction by Colin Farrelly 9780745695037
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic screening, gene therapy and genome editing might be... -
How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter by David S. Meyer 9780745696843
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80People protest to try to change the world, because they think they can help change the world, and sometimes they do. But not by themselves, and generally not just how and when they want. How... -
Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power Susan George 9780745697819
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now... -
Imagination in Theory: Essays on Culture and Writing by Michele Barrett 9780745616667
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, social theory, feminism, and literary theory. ... -
The Marx Reader by Christopher Pierson 9780745617282
Booksplease Price: £21.68This is the first major collection of Karl Marx's writings since the fall of Communism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. That event notwithstanding, Marx remains one of the towering... -
In Search of Politics by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745621715
Booksplease Price: £51.21We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and... -
Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers by Caitlin Killian 9781509557738
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.33While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting,... -
Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction by Tore Ellingsen 9781509559008
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.19Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but... -
Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction by Tore Ellingsen 9781509558995
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but... -
The Composition of Worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier by Philippe Descola 9781509555475
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions... -
Politics and Sociology: General Sociology, Volume 5 by Pierre Bourdieu 9781509526727
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out... -
The Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First Century by David Betz 9781509544059
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We... -
Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition, and Therapeutic Governance by Jie Yang 9781509502950
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological... -
Global Labour Studies by Marcus Taylor 9781509504060
Booksplease Price: £56.13The current globalized economy is able to produce diverse commodities and distribute these across vast distances. However, the workforce which underpins these networks experiences vast inequalities... -
Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation by Geert Lovink 9781509507757
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance... -
The Struggle for Development by Benjamin Selwyn 9781509512782
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist... -
A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities by Francois Laruelle 9781509509959
RRP: £57.25Booksplease Price: £51.26A Biography of Ordinary Man is a foundational text for our understanding of Francois Laruelle, one of France s leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary... -
The Mood of the World by Heinz Bude 9781509519934
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In many western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many people feel worse off... -
Migration and Inequality by Mirna Safi 9781509522101
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural "problems," this book radically shifts the focus... -
The Son's Secret: From Oedipus to the Prodigal Son by Massimo Recalcati 9781509531752
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.30This new book by Massimo Recalcati focuses on the psycho-social life of the son. Comparing and contrasting the tragic story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son, Recalcati... -
Will the gig economy prevail? by Colin Crouch 9781509532438
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Increasingly employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed' in order to weaken their rights and security. This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to... -
Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities Navid Kermani 9781509500345
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did... -
The Black Register Tendayi Sithole 9781509542079
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates... -
Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles by Karl H. Hoerning 9780745610764
Booksplease Price: £51.21In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.Book InformationISBN 9780745610764Author Karl H... -
Late Modernity in Crisis by Andreas Reckwitz 9781509556298
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern... -
Aesthetics and Its Discontents by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646305
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms... -
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509560929
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.54Across the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination,... -
Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-hatred Bel Olid 9781509550197
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509550197Author Bel OlidFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Is AI Good for the Planet? by Benedetta Brevini 9781509547944
Booksplease Price: £41.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509547944Author Benedetta BreviniFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint < -
Mediated Death by Johanna Sumiala 9781509544530
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509544530Author Johanna SumialaFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint -
Spectacles of Waste by Warwick Anderson 9781509557417
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the... -
Edmund Burke by Ross Carroll 9781509538645
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror... -
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West Daniel Waldenstrom 9781509557783
Booksplease Price: £25.82Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed...