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2020: A Reckoning by Eric Klinenberg 9781847926937
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.87Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.'A gripping,... -
Climate Change and the Future of Cities by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41We live in the age of extremes, a period punctuated by significant disasters that have changed the way we understand risk, vulnerability, and the future of communities. Violent ecological events such... -
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full... -
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk by Eric Klinenberg 9780231190107
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental... -
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk Eric Klinenberg 9780231190114
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.29On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental... -
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media by Eric Klinenberg 9780805087291
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805087291Author Eric KlinenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt... -
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.72In 1950, only 22% of adults were single. Today, more than 50% of adults are. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, most solo dwellers, compared... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our... -
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781524761172Author Eric... -
Living Alone and Loving it by Barbara Feldon 9780743235174
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743235174Author FeldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 9780141981468 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.88The #1 New York Times Bestseller**A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the Emmy-award winning star of Master of None and... -
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79The #1 New York Times Bestseller**A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the Emmy-award winning star of Master of None and... -
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood by Carlo Rotella 9780226759616
Booksplease Price: £16.75An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly,... -
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick 9780063017559
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063017559Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen 9780822327301
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of... -
Hot Cities: A Transdisciplinary Agenda by Wendy Steele 9781786434586
Booksplease Price: £91.11Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with... -
News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance Pablo J. Boczkowski 9780226062808
Booksplease Price: £30.43Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines... -
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 by Richard C. Keller
Booksplease Price: £31.37In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims... -
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths by Stefan Timmermans
Booksplease Price: £18.63As elected coroners were replaced by medical examiners with scientific training, the American public became fascinated with their work. From the grisly investigations showcased on highly rated... -
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after... -
Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft by David Stark 9780231214001
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of... -
Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft by David Stark 9780231214018
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.14Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of... -
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.30All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequalityThe age of climate gradualism is over,... -
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention by Andrew Lakoff 9780231146975
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation,... -
Bonded by Evolution: What We’ve Got Wrong About Love and Connection by Paul Eastwick 9781529910568
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.23A ground-breaking look at the science of love and connection - and an urgent corrective to some of our most fundamental assumptions about attraction.'In a world saturated with cynical advice about... -
Is This America?: Katrina as Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast... -
This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Jedediah Purdy 9780691195643
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face... -
Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters by Daniel P Aldrich
Booksplease Price: £24.80Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made... -
Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters by Daniel P Aldrich 9780226638263
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made... -
Violence at the Urban Margins by Javier Auyero 9780190221447
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £109.33In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that... -
Violence at the Urban Margins by Javier Auyero 9780190221454
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £29.68In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that... -
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field by Rodney Benson 9780745633862
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.65Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in... -
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field by Rodney Benson
Booksplease Price: £20.70Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in... -
Cities in Action: Organizations, Institutions, and Urban Climate Strategies Christof Brandtner 9780231202398
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21As national governments and global institutions fail to address climate change, an increasing number of cities have committed to major sustainability and climate strategies. Why do some cities take... -
Cities in Action: Organizations, Institutions, and Urban Climate Strategies Christof Brandtner 9780231202381
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £89.94As national governments and global institutions fail to address climate change, an increasing number of cities have committed to major sustainability and climate strategies. Why do some cities take... -
Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans by Kevin Fox Gotham 9780199752218
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.06Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and... -
Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans by Kevin Fox Gotham 9780199752225
RRP: £147.50Booksplease Price: £117.70Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and... -
How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic by Melina Sherman 9780197698235
Booksplease Price: £21.62How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and... -
How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic by Melina Sherman 9780197698228
Booksplease Price: £74.78How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun 9780231205566
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.55Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those...