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The Aesthetic Imperative: Writings on Art by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745699868
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to... -
Population and Development: A Critical Introduction by Frank Furedi 9780745615370
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Many experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book... -
Football: A Sociology of the Global Game by Richard Giulianotti 9780745617695
Booksplease Price: £20.70This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of football.About the AuthorRichard Giulianotti is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.Reviews"At last, a real sociology... -
Freud 2000 by Anthony Elliott 9780745619095
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89No modern thinker has affected our views on identity and culture as forcefully as Sigmund Freud. Yet what is the relevance of Freud to today's world? How can Freudian theory be used to explore the... -
The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745620282
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.97In this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power -- political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic -- by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of... -
Democratic Theory Today: Challenges for the 21st Century by April Carter 9780745621944
Booksplease Price: £61.35At the beginning of the twenty--first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well--established parliamentary regimes are facing serious threats to... -
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction by Cameron Parsell 9781509554508
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.96Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure.As Cameron Parsell shows,... -
The Case for the Centre Right by David Gauke 9781509560820
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.52In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that... -
After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance by Ash Amin 9781509557301
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Increasingly, many people in the democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and Britain to... -
Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age by Ulrike Klinger 9781509553587
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.38Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for... -
The Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First Century by David Betz 9781509544042
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35The 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... -
Global Health Studies: A Social Determinants Perspective by Louise Warwick-Booth 9781509504169
RRP: £57.25Booksplease Price: £50.96A global view of health offers a richer understanding of ways of measuring, improving and sustaining health both in individual national settings and in the context of a strongly interconnected world... -
The Future of Live by Karin Van Es 9781509502639
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social... -
Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity's Surrender to Computers by Harry Collins 9781509504114
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called 'deep learning' seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before. Are computers on the cusp of becoming so... -
Race and the Cultural Industries by Anamik Saha 9781509505302
RRP: £57.25Booksplease Price: £51.45Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take... -
Plural International Relations in a Divided World by Stephen Chan 9781509508679
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and... -
Faith and Freedom by Teresa Forcades 9781509509751
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.30Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she... -
Political Judgment: An Introduction by Peter J. Steinberger 9781509513109
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Politics is the process by which communities collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment. Courses of action are chosen at least in part... -
Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? by Jacqueline Bhabha 9781509519392
RRP: £36.50Booksplease Price: £33.33Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global... -
Contemporary Politics in the Middle East by Beverley Milton-Edwards 9781509520824
RRP: £67.50Booksplease Price: £59.98The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter... -
War and Political Theory Brian Orend 9781509524969
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as important as ever. Under what circumstances are we justified in going... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560431
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary... -
What is the Future? John Urry (University of Lancaster) 9780745696539
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what... -
Homo Numericus: The coming 'civilization' by Daniel Cohen 9781509560219
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life which the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialised. Its objective was to reduce the cost of physical... -
Structural Anthropology Zero by Claude Levi-Strauss 9781509544974
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509544974Author Claude Levi-StraussFormat HardbackPage Count 300Impri -
Communication and Economic Life by Liz Moor 9780745687018
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745687018Author Liz MoorFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Making Money Work for Us: How MMT Can Save America L. Randall Wray 9781509554256
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509554256Author WrayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Late Capitalist Fascism by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 9781509547432
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509547432Author Mikkel Bolt RasmussenFormat HardbackPage Count 140I -
Cedric Robinson: Black Radicalism Beyond the Order of Time by Joshua Myers 9781509537914
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509537914Author Joshua MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Deliberative Democracy by Ian O'Flynn 9781509523450
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509523450Author Ian O'FlynnFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing by Nigel C. Gibson 9781509548750
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.80Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian... -
First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge between Metaphysics and the Sciences by Giorgio Agamben 9781509560523
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.34What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called “first philosophy” or “metaphysics”? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it... -
Patterns: Theory of the Digital Society by Armin Nassehi 9781509558216
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything – including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies – in just a few... -
Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany by Ines Geipel 9781509559978
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.71Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used... -
The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming Jin Li 9781509561360
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking... -
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction Steven Knepper 9781509560981
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues... -
The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World by Shalom Lappin 9781509558568
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Generations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and... -
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton 9781509559701
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £39.42Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm,... -
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World by Pascal Bruckner 9781509559527
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In... -
A History of Rest by Alain Corbin 9781509561537
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries,...