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Why Global Justice Matters: Moral Progress in a Divided World Chris Armstrong 9781509531882
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.78While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major... -
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509560936
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Across the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination,... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560424
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.95Narratives 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... -
The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary Judith Lorber 9781509544363
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509544363Author Judith LorberFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
Social Control: An Introduction by James J. Chriss 9781509539499
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £47.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509539499Author James J. ChrissFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint -
The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life by Massimo Recalcati 9781509548781
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509548781Author Massimo RecalcatiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint
Du Bois: A Critical Introduction Reiland Rabaka 9781509519255
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509519255Author Reiland RabakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint
Controversy Mapping: A Field Guide by Tommaso Venturini 9781509544509
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509544509Author Tommaso VenturiniFormat HardbackPage Count 385Imprint <
Should We Ban Killer Robots? by Deane Baker 9781509548507
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509548507Author Deane BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint
The Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray 9780745622583
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray argues that liberal thought has always contained two incompatible philosophies. In one, liberalism is a theory of a universal rational consensus, which enables...
Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 by Mark Garnett 9781509560967
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.11Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied. Sadly for the...
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Antonio Forcellino 9781509565450
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.88The Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of...
Nations, States and Empires by John A. Hall 9781509563241
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires...
The War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its History Frank Furedi 9781509561254
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it’s toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past...
Psychocinema Helen Rollins 9781509561148
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivity. It traces the history of the influence of...
The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't? Nick Couldry 9781509554720
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial...
Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? by Elihu Katz 9780745629339
Booksplease Price: £61.05ARE THERE ANY? Many of us have our own canonic texts -- the kind that wona t go away. We tell them that their time has passed, that ita s embarrassing theya re still around, but they turn up...
The Original Accident by Paul Virilio 9780745636139
Booksplease Price: £41.37The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the threats, imaginary or real, posed by terrorist...
Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News by Libby Lester 9780745644011
Booksplease Price: £56.13Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debate. This book offers a new understanding of the...
A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age by Zizi A. Papacharissi 9780745645254
Booksplease Price: £18.18Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are...
Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination by Justin Lewis 9780745650241
Booksplease Price: £19.71Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture. Yet there is a growing body of research from a range of disciplines that suggests that consumer capitalism may be past its...
The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction by Philip Harling 9780745621937
Booksplease Price: £21.68This book is an unprecedented synthesis of the literature on state development that explains how and why the contours of the British state have changed over the last three centuries. Ranging in scope...
A History of the Roman Republic by Klaus Bringmann 9780745633701
Booksplease Price: £61.35In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the...
Families Communicating With Children by Thomas J. Socha 9780745646138
Booksplease Price: £17.19This book offers a fresh and insightful introduction to children's communication development that emphasizes how families help children learn to communicate optimally. Writing for communication...
Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class by McKenzie Wark 9780745653990
Booksplease Price: £19.71The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both...
The Brave New World of Work by Ulrich Beck 9780745623986
Booksplease Price: £19.71In this important book, Ulrich Beck -- one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today -- examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck...
Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century by Robin Attfield 9780745652528
Booksplease Price: £56.13In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that...
Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and Ethics by Fred Inglis 9780745621586
Booksplease Price: £18.18This is the first full--scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best--known anthropologists in the world today. In a lively and accessible introduction to his work, Fred Inglis...
What is Feminist Sociology? Jo Reger 9781509555628
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34What does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology? And how might we engage the full potential of a “feminist sociological imagination”? These questions lie at the heart of Jo Reger’s slim...
Post-Comedy Alfie Bown 9781509563395
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of...
Essential Concepts in Sociology by Anthony Giddens 9781509516667
Booksplease Price: £51.21Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing...
Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509567591
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to...
Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction by Beverley Clack 9780745638676
Booksplease Price: £56.13The first publication of Beverley Clack and Brian R. Clack's exciting and innovative introduction to the philosophy of religion has been of enormous value to students, as well as providing a bold and...
Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach by Padraig Rooney 9781509566297
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.43Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to...
In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745606590
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of...
The Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies, Book III Kenneth Thompson (Both Open University) 9780745609645
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.08This book considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, with reference to North America and Australasia. The main...
In Praise of Mathematics Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509512034
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible...
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.84This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe...
Homo Academicus by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.46This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The...
What is Urban History? Shane Ewen 9780745652696
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of...