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The Unquiet Ghost by Hochschild
Booksplease Price: $22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257478Author HochschildPage Count 352Imprint -
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.39Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of... -
The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120339Author Arlie HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild 9780520272941
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $31.54In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work", just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to...
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on...
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212508Author Adam HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805066432Author Arlie Russell HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 316
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 9780063278523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.88National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast...
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth...
Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society by Jennifer Hochschild 9780197699454
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.87A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American...
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.19In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since...
They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life by Alva Gotby
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would...
The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad by J. P. Daughton 9781803996967
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.79'Masterful' - The EconomistThe Congo-Ocean railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it...
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey...
They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life by Alva Gotby 9781839767043
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it might change. Drawing on the thought of the...
The World's War by David Olusoga
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched...
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106910Author Christopher CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Im![Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher 9780099494287 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9646731/10663451/9780099494287__58489.1781270146.jpg?c=1 "Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher 9780099494287 [USED COPY]")
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher 9780099494287 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.14**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey...
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by Jules Marchal 9781784786311
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.45In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up...
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux...![Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701861/10718565/9780140281118__48952.1781356665.jpg?c=1 "Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]")
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.11Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux...![Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780486264646 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10018628/11035046/9780486264646__77701.1787291542.jpg?c=1 "Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780486264646 [USED COPY]")
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780486264646 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $2.51Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region...
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb 9781849162340
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.24Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781862075887
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale, women are...![Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado 9780814719558 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10298664/11314890/9780814719558__63957.1790320399.jpg?c=1 "Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado 9780814719558 [USED COPY]")
Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado 9780814719558 [USED COPY]
RRP: $84.42Booksplease Price: $8.44The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people...
Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado 9780814719565 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people...
Emotional Labour in Health Care: The unmanaged heart of nursing by Catherine Theodosius 9780415409544
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $56.60Do nurses still care? In today's inflexible, fast-paced and more accountable workplace where biomedical and clinical models dominate health care practice, is there room for emotional labour? Based...
Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle 9781613748848
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.84At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub-and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes...
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Bales 9781851688159
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal...
Politics: Why It Matters by Andrew Gamble 9781509527298
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and...
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.68The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation...
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara 9781529964332
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28From the New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red, discover the incredible true story and page-turning account of the 18th century slave ship, often known as the Zong yet actually named the...
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa by Steve Kemper 9780393346237
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the...
Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution Clifford D. Conner 9780745331935
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $26.59Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that...
Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007 by Ian Shapiro 9780872209039
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart, this volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion--as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality...![The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation by Pei-te Lien 9781566398947 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4993055/4992273/9781566398947__63730.1722721841.jpg?c=1 "The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation by Pei-te Lien 9781566398947 [USED COPY]")
The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation by Pei-te Lien 9781566398947 [USED COPY]
RRP: $92.46Booksplease Price: $9.25Asian Americans are widely believed to be passive and compliant participants in the U.S. political process-if they participate at all. In this ground-breaking book, Pei-te Lien maps the actions and...
Why We Disagree about Inequality: Social Justice v s. Social Order by Iceland
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Why do we disagree about the causes of and solutions to social inequality? What explains our different viewpoints on Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, income inequality, and immigration? In this tightly...
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $27.97From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers...
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today,...
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind by Ethan Watters
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41It is well-known that US culture is a dominant force and a world-wide phenomenon. But it is possible that its most troubling export has yet to be accounted for? America has been the world leader in...