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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.82The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series... -
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia by Angie Lederach 9781503634640
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass... -
Fentanyl, Inc.: how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic by Ben Westhoff 9781912854516
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. An undercover investigation into the synthetic-drug epidemic. A new group of chemicals is radically transforming the recreational-drug landscape. Known as novel... -
Timber Decay in Buildings and its Treatment Brian Ridout 9781848025394
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.90This is a book about the insects and fungi that may appear in building timbers if unnoticed or unavoidable maintenance problems allow them to remain damp. There are two options if a problem is found... -
Ideology and Social Change in Latin America by June C. Nash
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation,... -
Agrarian Populism and the Mexican State: The Struggle for Land in Sonora by Steven E. Sanderson 9780520301740
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29As oil-rich Mexico faces the 1980s, conflicts between agrarian populism and capitalist industrialization call for resolution. The internal peace and political stability that made the period between... -
Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America by Malayna Raftopoulos 9780367893101
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice. It... -
Chicano Experience/hs by Stanley A. West
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book aims to add to the knowledge of Chicano communities and the knowledge and understanding of how Mexican Americans have adapted in urban areas. It presents descriptions and analyses of... -
Applied Pharmaceutical Practice and Nutraceuticals: Natural Product Development by Debarshi Kar Mahapatra 9781774637760
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £72.84The pharmaceutical industry recognizes the shift to the use of natural products while also considering the serious concerns that have arisen regarding the claimed efficacy, quality, and safety of... -
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.71Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers "a withering and... -
Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson 9780008547653
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'A riveting read' Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Year 'A smartly-paced thriller' Evening Standard 'Dramatic, unnerving... exceptional' The Sun *SELECTED FOR BBC'S... -
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING UZO ADUBA AND MATTHEW BRODERICK 'This is the book that started it all. Barry Meier is a heroic reporter and Pain Killer is a muckraking classic'Patrick Radden... -
Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology by Jan Cohen-Cruz
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street... -
Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies by Francisco A. Lomelí
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.93The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community... -
Theatre Audiences by Susan Bennett
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different... -
Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú Sylvanna M. Falcón 9780252046032
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In 2003, Peru's Comision de la Verdad y Reconciliacion (CVR) issued its groundbreaking final report on the human rights abuses perpetuated by two revolutionary groups and the country's armed forces... -
An Update on Anxiety Disorders: Etiological, Cognitive & Neuroscientific Aspects by Marwa Azab 9783031193613
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book aims to synthesize recent theoretical and experimental findings from psychology, neuroscience, epigenetics and genetics to understand anxiety disorders and their etiology and treatments... -
Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: A Study of the Lake Titicaca Region of Bolivia by Jane Benton
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.99Published in 1999. Despite the attempts of a number of Latin American republics to redistribute land resources and carry out agrarian reform programmes, 'the land question' remains a vital political... -
Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: A Study of the Lake Titicaca Region of Bolivia by Jane Benton 9781138610101
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Published in 1999. Despite the attempts of a number of Latin American republics to redistribute land resources and carry out agrarian reform programmes, 'the land question' remains a vital political... -
Perspectives In U.s. Marxist Anthropology by David J. Hakken 9780367298159
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, this collection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thought and the diversity of contemporary anthropology. Linked by a... -
The Struggle for Madrid: The Central Epic of the Spanish Conflict 1936-1937 Robert G. Colodny 9781412810623
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that were waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this struggle,... -
Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice by Yves Dezalay 9780415823968
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice will show students and scholars what it means in practice to talk about building transnational justice both on the side of economic regulation... -
Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú Sylvanna M. Falcón 9780252088131
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In 2003, Peru's Comision de la Verdad y Reconciliacion (CVR) issued its groundbreaking final report on the human rights abuses perpetuated by two revolutionary groups and the country's armed forces... -
Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes by Gerardo Castillo Guzman 9781032174945
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies... -
Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Steven Kepnes 9780813365657
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently, but they all share a fidelity to what they call the ?Torah? and to communal practices of reading and social action that have their... -
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul: AS SEEN ON NETFLIX Jamie Ducharme 9781529345827
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02**Now adapted as the Netflix documentary - Big Vape tells the story of how a cigarette start-up became a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke**'Big Vape... -
Family Farms: Survival and Prospect: A World-Wide Analysis by Harold Brookfield 9780415759601
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production... -
Truth, Reparations and Social Cohesion: Transitional Justice Lessons from Peru by Elisabeth Bunselmeyer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book addresses the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms for repairing social cohesion. Truth commissions and reparation programs are implemented worldwide to enhance social cohesion,... -
Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America. Sarah A. Radcliffe 9780415073134
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the... -
Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes by Gerardo Castillo Guzman
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies... -
An Update on Anxiety Disorders: Etiological, Cognitive & Neuroscientific Aspects by Marwa Azab 9783031193644
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book aims to synthesize recent theoretical and experimental findings from psychology, neuroscience, epigenetics and genetics to understand anxiety disorders and their etiology and treatments... -
Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt 9781032088501
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 explores the performance techniques employed in commedia dell'arte and the ways in which they served to rapidly spread the ideas that were to form the basis... -
Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Booksplease Price: £60.08Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 explores the performance techniques employed in commedia dell'arte and the ways in which they served to rapidly spread the ideas that were to form the basis... -
Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, and the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855-1920 by Patrick J. McNamara 9780807857878
Booksplease Price: £40.33The period following Mexico's war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts, as liberal and conservative factions battled for control of the national government. In ""Sons... -
Terrorism and Democratic Stability by Jennifer Holmes
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic break- downs? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. And even when the consequences of violence are... -
Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico by Marcela Torres Wong
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could... -
The Making Of Social Movements In Latin America: Identity, Strategy, And Democracy Arturo Escobar 9780813312071
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24This book, paying attention to the axes of identity, strategy, and democracy, grew out of the authors' shared and growing interest in contemporary social movements and the vast theoretical literature... -
Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property: Reconfiguring Relationships Between People and Plants in Ecuador by David J Jefferson 9780367517700
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a... -
Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing social transformation John Clammer 9781138024724
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if... -
Sustainable Community Movement Organizations: Solidarity Economies and Rhizomatic Practices by Francesca Forno 9781032237725
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of...