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Dance, Architecture and Engineering by Adesola Akinleye 9781350185197
Booksplease Price: £71.55This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers. Events took place at key... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.39How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our... -
Accountants' Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World by Matthew D. Gill 9780199547142
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £99.43Accounting is the language of business, increasingly standardized across the world through powerful global corporations: a technical skill used to reach the correct, unquestionable answer. Yet, as... -
Land of Strangers by Ash Amin 9780745652177
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive... -
Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites by Monika Krause
Booksplease Price: £24.80In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is... -
Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites by Monika Krause 9780226780665
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £80.12In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is... -
Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London's Towering Cityscape by Gunter Gassner
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London's tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the... -
State, Soul, and Society: The Transformation of Morality and the Modern State by Edward Rubin 9780199348657
Booksplease Price: £31.64Given the complexity of human societies, the idea that a society's moral norms track the stages of its historical development is both controversial and difficult to demonstrate. Yet in The New... -
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans by Simon Head
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs),the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless , Simon Head argues that... -
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali 9781859844571
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.66The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland,... -
City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary by Suzanne Hall
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and... -
Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn 9781859844090
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.74Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision. A work of unique scope, it traces the origins and development of the pension idea, from the days of the French... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking... -
Everything Must Change!: The World After Covid-19 by Renata Avila
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In... -
Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks by Andres Sevtsuk
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerce Street commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as... -
Joining the Resistance by Carol Gilligan 9780745651699
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that... -
Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan (New York University) 9780745651705
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that... -
Political Scandal: Power and Visability in the Media Age by John B. Thompson 9780745625492
Booksplease Price: £61.35Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a... -
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins 9780099552093 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.62**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality by Shani Orgad
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do... -
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov 9781610393706
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.70In the very near future, smart" technologies and big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to... -
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Booksplease Price: £22.08What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and... -
Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters by Katja Haustein 9781009363273
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57Times of crisis expose how we experience social, physical, and emotional forms of distance. Alone with Others explores how these experiences overlap, shaping our coexistence. Departing from... -
On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom by John Tusa
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72"In equal parts a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of our best-loved institutions and a guide on how governing boards should work" - HRDirector Throughout the world, thousands of... -
A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War by Michelle Perrot 9780674400030
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.81The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a... -
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy Bernard Williams 9780691271767
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams... -
When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency by Bernardo Zacka
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human... -
Anxiety in Middle-Class America: Sociology of Emotional Insecurity in Late Modernity by Valerie de Courville Nicol 9780367760861
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious... -
The Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195369304
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £29.37What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life...