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Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa by Robert Springborg 9781509535590
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.23Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates are comparatively unfavorable and insufficient to substantially improve citizens' lives. Whether this... -
The Limits of Epistemology Markus Gabriel 9781509525676
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.13At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge... -
Land Sickness by N Schultz 9781509556120
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $47.62As a heat wave hits Paris, the author’s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. He can’t sleep because of the... -
Making the Heavens Speak – Religion as Poetry by P Sloterdijk 9781509547494
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly... -
Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by Maria Popova 9781509557363
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and... -
Bodies and Mobile Media by Ingrid Richardson 9781509549610
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $88.22Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication... -
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553778
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.16In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
Foreverism by Grafton Tanner 9781509558056
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.79What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or... -
Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy by Catherine Malabou 9781509555239
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.27Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It... -
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction by Cameron Parsell 9781509554492
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.58Homelessness 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,... -
Food in a Just World: Compassionate Eating in a Time of Climate Change by Tracey Harris 9781509554027
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is... -
The Sociology of Identity – Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility by Brekhus 9781509534807
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? Identity has... -
Recognition by Cillian McBride 9780745648477
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.07A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order. Everyone cares about recognition: no... -
Uranium by Anthony Burke 9780745670515
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power... -
Quantitative Marxism by Paul Dunne 9780745606477
Booksplease Price: $119.05This book seeks to establish a constructive and useful interaction between empirical data and research methods, on the one hand, and Marxist theory and analysis, on the other. It shows that it is... -
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose 9780745608181
Booksplease Price: $99.86Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its... -
Interpreting Political Responsibility: Essays 1981 - 1989 John M. Dunn (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745608280
Booksplease Price: $40.37The task of political theory is to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. The central theme of Interpreting Political... -
Trust by Russell Hardin 9780745624648
Booksplease Price: $109.45Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public... -
Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences by Ann Oakley 9780745622576
Booksplease Price: $51.87Experiments in Knowing explores the history, ideology and implications of different 'ways of knowing'.Book InformationISBN 9780745622576Author Ann OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416 -
Empires and Colonies by Jonathan Hart 9780745626130
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $112.81Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected... -
The Identity of Nations by Montserrat Guibernau 9780745626628
Booksplease Price: $109.45What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism... -
Aquinas by Ralph McInerny 9780745626864
Booksplease Price: $99.86This lively and highly accessible introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas focuses on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation.Book InformationISBN... -
Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction by Keith Negus 9780745613185
Booksplease Price: $38.43Popular Music in Theory provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. This book is organized in a way that shows how popular... -
What Is Globalization? by Ulrich Beck 9780745621258
Booksplease Price: $109.45This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.Book InformationISBN 9780745621258Author Ulrich BeckFormat HardbackPage Count -
Moral Questions: An Introduction to Ethics Jon Nuttall (Director of Studies, St.) 9780745610405
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.Book InformationISBN 9780745610405Author Jon NuttallFormat PaperbackPage Count 228 -
On Ethnography by Sarah Daynes 9780745685595
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $90.68In turn creative thinker and street flaneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher... -
Digital War Reporting by Donald Matheson 9780745642758
Booksplease Price: $99.86Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the same time,... -
Subcultural Theory: Traditions and Concepts by Dr. J. Patrick Williams 9780745643878
Booksplease Price: $109.45Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other... -
Patient Provider Interaction by Lisa Sparks 9780745645377
Booksplease Price: $48.03This book offers a much-needed introduction to the dynamics of the communication exchange between providers and patients in the health-care environment. Starting from the principle that... -
States and Power by Richard Lachmann 9780745645384
Booksplease Price: $109.45States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast authority over the economic well-being, health and welfare of citizens. This concise and engaging book... -
Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction by Simon P. James 9780745645469
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What,... -
Gender, Work, and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy by Heidi Gottfried 9780745647647
Booksplease Price: $129.23This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist... -
Derrida, an Egyptian by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745646381
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.50Shortly before his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida expressed two paradoxical convictions: he was certain that he would be forgotten the very day he died, yet at the same time certain that something of... -
Farewell to Growth Serge Latouche (University of Paris-Sud, France) 9780745646169
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.07Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We... -
Hegel by J. M. Fritzman 9780745647241
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continues to provoke debate in contemporary philosophy. This new book... -
Mediated Cosmopolitanism: The World of Television News by Alexa Robertson 9780745649474
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is... -
What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It by Paul G. Harris 9780745652504
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $103.94Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for... -
Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745652955
Booksplease Price: $34.50The term collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but... -
Professionalism by Alan Cribb 9780745653167
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.07Professionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire people by reminding them of workplace ideals and the... -
Screen Culture: A Global History by Richard Butsch 9780745653242
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.23In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive examination of screen media and screen culture globally...