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Shell Shocked: The Social Response to Terrorist Attacks by Gerome Truc 9781509520336
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.57What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the reaction to the... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745602745
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.57This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general... -
Understanding Nonviolence by Maia Carter Hallward 9780745680163
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.57The use of nonviolent action is on the rise. From the Occupy Movement to the Arab Spring and mass protests on the streets of Brazil, activists across the world are increasingly using unarmed tactics... -
Steven Spielberg's America by Frederick Wasser 9780745640822
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £52.80Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America's most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture... -
The Anatomy of the Senses: Natural Symbols in Medieval and Early Modern Italy by Piero Camporesi 9780745605067
Booksplease Price: £52.51This book is a brilliant account of medieval and early modern attitudes to the cosmos in general and the human body in particular, written by one of the foremost historians of folklore and popular... -
Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745616247
Booksplease Price: £52.51In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. Bourdieu's theory... -
Making Sexual History by Jeffrey Weeks
Booksplease Price: £62.59Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.Book InformationISBN 9780745621142Author Jeffrey... -
Geography: Why It Matters by Alexander B. Murphy 9781509523009
Booksplease Price: £47.47Ever since humans sketched primitive maps in the dirt, the quest to understand our surroundings has been fundamental to our survival. Studying geography revealed that the earth was round, showed our... -
The World: A Beginner's Guide by Goran Therborn 9780745643434
Booksplease Price: £57.55What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centralityof the West is no longer given? How were the societies and culturesof today's world together with their interconnections forged,... -
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism by Eva Illouz 9780745639048
Booksplease Price: £52.51It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public... -
Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology: An Interpretation and Critique by Stephen Kalberg 9780745612379
Booksplease Price: £20.24In this accessible and engaging work, Kalberg shows how Webera s work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance for comparative--historical research today addressing in a forceful way... -
Human Rights by Michael Freeman 9781509510276
Booksplease Price: £57.55Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most... -
What is Citizenship? by Derek Heater
Booksplease Price: £57.55Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.Book InformationISBN 9780745622293Author Derek HeaterFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Polity... -
Eighteenth Century English Literature by Charlotte Sussman 9780745625140
Booksplease Price: £57.55This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a... -
Instituting Thought: Three Paradigms of PoliticalOntology by Roberto Esposito 9781509546428
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to... -
Stealth Communications: The Spectacular Rise of Public Relations by Sue Curry Jansen 9780745664811
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, believe and behave in ways that keep economies moving... -
Love and Communication by Paddy Scannell 9781509547524
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509547524Author Paddy ScannellFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
For a Politics of the Common Good by Alain Badiou 9781509535040
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.87This volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the validity and applicability of Badiou's ideas are... -
The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue by David Scott 9781509551163
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the... -
The Political Power of Global Corporations by John Mikler 9780745698458
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet while states, civil society and international organizations... -
Global Health Governance by Jeremy R. Youde 9780745653082
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political, economic, and... -
Modern Italian Literature by Ann Hallamore Caesar 9780745627991
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural... -
The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud by Patrik Wikstrom 9781509530137
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikstroem's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international... -
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling t he Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by A Mah 9781509549450
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.57Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil... -
If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls by Bruno Latour 9781509560455
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.00In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and... -
From Ashes to Text: Andean Literature of Sexual Di ssidence in the 20th Century by Travez 9781509550159
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27According to some chronicles from the period, the violent arrival of the Spanish Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the... -
What is Social Policy? by Daniel Beland 9780745645834
Booksplease Price: £52.51From housing, pensions and family benefits, to health care, unemployment insurance and social assistance, the welfare state is a key aspect of our lives. But social programs are contested political... -
Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies by David H. J. Morgan 9780745610795
Booksplease Price: £20.24The changing nature of the family is a topic of intense public concern. It also has been the focus of research in sociology and related disciplines for many years. Family Connections is a major new... -
Reflective Practice by Janet Hargreaves
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.63Reflective practice is an essential skill for those working in health and social care, but why is it so vital and how can it be learned? As inter-disciplinary working becomes more common, finding... -
Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World by Jill Walker Rettberg 9781509545223
Booksplease Price: £53.88Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality... -
How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin by Mikhail Khodorkovsky 9781509561056
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.49Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today’s Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia’s prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst... -
Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis by Chris Fleming 9780745629483
Booksplease Price: £18.41In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of Rene Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Girard's... -
The Good Enough Life by Daniel Miller 9781509559657
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.55This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small... -
What is Digital History? by Salmi 9781509537013
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel... -
Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West by Kim Humphery 9780745645407
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and... -
Utopia by Mark Jendrysik 9781509534920
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.95Human beings universally dream of a better world. For centuries they have expressed their yearning for ways of life that are free from oppression, want and fear, through philosophy, art, film and... -
Democracy and its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies by Richard Rose 9780745619262
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.81The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives -- dictatorship or totalitarian rule -- are more in... -
Fragile States by Lothar Brock 9780745649412
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24This authoritative introduction defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states in the global system and offers an absorbing account of why fragile states are crucial to our understanding of... -
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck 9780745612782
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.50The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory... -
Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari 9781509554997
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity...