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Emotions, Media and Politics Karin Wahl-Jorgensen 9780745661056
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.63Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital ingredient in shaping our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions, as they circulate through... -
Korea by Christoph Bluth 9780745633572
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised... -
Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World by Jill Walker Rettberg 9781509545230
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Humans 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... -
Masters: The Invisible War of the Powerful Against Their Subjects by Marco D'Eramo 9781509557431
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £37.60From the breweries of Colorado and the faculties of Harvard to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Marco D’Eramo guides us through the places where a new war has been thought out, planned and... -
The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe by Roger Chartier 9780745656021
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.50In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author s or translator s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher... -
The Internet of Things Mercedes Bunz 9781509517466
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.89More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense... -
Civil Society Michael Edwards (Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program) 9781509537358
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in a troubled world. Recent economic and... -
The End of Representative Politics by Simon Tormey 9780745681955
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast. ... -
Medieval Women's Writing Diane Watt (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) 9780745632551
Booksplease Price: £57.55Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as... -
Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World by Sophie Grace Chappell 9781509561506
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.85‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace... -
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television by David Buckingham 9781509545254
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509545254Author David BuckinghamFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
The Nordic Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9781509538836
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.57The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain... -
The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historian's Debate by Jurgen Habermas
Booksplease Price: £62.89Jurgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences. The New Conservatism brings to light another side of Habermasa s work, showing him to be... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745628455
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture... -
The Refusalist International: A Theory of the New Protest Cycle by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 9781509568284
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.86The many mass protests that have taken place since 2011 have been characterised by an unmistakable need to challenge, overthrow and destroy the prevailing political representations without proposing... -
The Climate Coup by M Alizart
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative... -
In Praise of Theatre Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9780745686974
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.86In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou's latest work on the `most complete of the arts,' the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike,... -
Has Marriage for Love Failed? Pascal Bruckner 9780745669786
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention... -
The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values by Marlene Wind
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.98Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and... -
Recognition in the Age of Social Media by Bruno Campanella 9781509544561
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24The desire to be recognized is a basic human trait. In contemporary society, social media platforms play a key role in defining how processes of recognition take shape. To post, to like, or to... -
Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott 9781509555437
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.71Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals,... -
Modernity and its Futures: Understanding Modern Societies, Book IV by Tony McGrew 9780745609669
Booksplease Price: £27.60Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, structures and relationships that are emerging in the... -
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna Jacques Le Rider (Professor of German Studies, University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis) 9780745609706
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £59.27This remarkable and engaging book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Vienna, one of the most important centres of creativity in Europe. Le Rider uses the notion of... -
Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me by Andy Martin 9781509540846
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.80It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end. On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York,... -
The Power of Images: Siena, 1338 by Patrick Boucheron 9781509512898
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are... -
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People by Martijn Konings 9781509564323
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.77How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?In The... -
Introducing Social Work by Lena Dominelli
Booksplease Price: £17.62In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Using engaging examples from contemporary social work... -
Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives by Katrin Flikschuh 9780745624372
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.57In this engaging new book, Katrin Flikschuh offers an accessible introduction to divergent conceptions of freedom in contemporary liberal political philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of Isaiah... -
Digital Touch by Carey Jewitt 9781509556632
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming... -
Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct by Robert M. Entman 9780745647623
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense... -
Statebuilding by Timothy D. Sisk 9780745661582
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.57After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically... -
Knowledge by Ian Evans 9780745650524
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change... -
Multiracism: Rethinking Racism in Global Context by Alastair Bonnett 9781509537310
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509537310Author Alastair BonnettFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
Psychology for Nursing by Alison Torn 9780745671482
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £59.27This innovative new textbook covers a range of clinical situations a nurse may encounter in their professional career, providing useful insights into challenging patient - and colleague - encounters... -
Beckham by Professor Ellis Cashmore 9780745633664
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27The Beckham enigma continues. Since the publication of Cashmore's challenging social biography in 2003, the working-class kid from the East London has left Manchester and conquered the world... -
The Gender Order of Neoliberalism by Smitha Radhakrishnan 9781509544899
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of... -
Gender and the Environment by Nicole Detraz 9780745663821
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the... -
Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order by Oliver Stuenkel 9781509504565
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.92With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting... -
Vigilant Citizens: Vigilantism and the State by Ray Abrahams 9780745616377
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.63Vigilantes operate in the shadows rather than the bright lights of mainstream political consensus. They have arisen at many times in different regions of the world as defenders, often by force, of... -
Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran Farhad Khosrokhavar 9781509564491
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.27This book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the morality police. In the months that followed,...