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Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56One of the world's leading social thinkers, Bourdieu's work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis... -
Japan by Jeff Kingston 9781509525454
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful... -
Michael Walzer J. Toby Reiner 9781509526307
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Michael Walzer is one of the world's most important political thinkers, whose major works, such as Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars, have transformed many central debates in contemporary... -
What is Epistemology? Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781509529513
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509529513Author Stephen HetheringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Im -
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553778
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
This is not a Diary Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745655703
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our... -
Pain: A Sociological Introduction Elaine Denny (University of Central England in Birmingham) 9780745655550
RRP: $22.45Booksplease Price: $21.43Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have... -
After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance by Ash Amin 9781509557318
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.96Increasingly, many people in the democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and Britain to... -
Homo Numericus: The coming 'civilization' by Daniel Cohen 9781509560219
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $13.25From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life which the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialised. Its objective was to reduce the cost of physical... -
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World by Pascal Bruckner 9781509559527
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.25Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In... -
The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future by Stephen E Hanson 9781509563159
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.44What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K... -
Superpower Europe: The European Union's Silent Revolution Marc De Vos 9781509565269
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is... -
Matter: The Magnificent Illusion Guido Tonelli 9781509564149
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.44What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter – the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up... -
Return to Reflexivity Pierre Bourdieu 9781509562923
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work. For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in... -
The Globalization Backlash Colin Crouch (London School of Economics) 9781509533770
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist' plot to undermine traditional communities, and by... -
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas 9781509558940
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought... -
A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary Hans Fallada 9780745669885
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National... -
How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin by Mikhail Khodorkovsky 9781509561056
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today’s Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia’s prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst... -
Why Global Justice Matters: Moral Progress in a Divided World Chris Armstrong 9781509531882
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.13While 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... -
The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard 9780745612225
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in... -
The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values by Marlene Wind
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Tribalization 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... -
Minsky Daniel H. Neilson 9781509528509
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" - that the seeds of the bust are... -
Along the Trenches: A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani 9781509535576
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.30Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster - the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that... -
In a Human Voice by Carol Gilligan 9781509556793
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25Carol Gilligan’s landmark book In a Different Voice – the “little book that started a revolution” – brought women’s voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be... -
The Horn of Africa Kidane Mengisteab (Pennsylvania State University) 9780745651224
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts,... -
Smartphones as Locative Media Jordan Frith 9780745685014
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.96Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these... -
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh 9781509560936
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.42Across 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,... -
Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 by Mark Garnett 9781509560967
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.02Labour 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 War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its History Frank Furedi 9781509561254
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.96A 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... -
Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott 9781509555437
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.32Machine 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,... -
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People by Martijn Konings 9781509564323
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56How 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... -
Rethinking Emancipation: Conversations with Aliocha Wald Lasowski by Jacques Ranciere 9781509559237
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and... -
The Refusalist International: A Theory of the New Protest Cycle by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 9781509568284
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89The 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... -
Social Movements in Global Politics by David West 9780745649603
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, extra-institutional activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a... -
The Climate Coup by M Alizart
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57Inaction 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... -
Introducing Social Work by Lena Dominelli
Booksplease Price: $22.95In 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... -
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev 9781509558407
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.88In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation... -
In the Name of Sharks by François Sarano 9781509557677
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.79Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano... -
Has Marriage for Love Failed? Pascal Bruckner 9780745669786
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57Today 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... -
In Praise of Theatre Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9780745686974
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89In 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,...